E.L. Doctorow (photo by Thomas Ford Memorial Library)
Nieman Reports recounts a 1977 visit to Harvard by novelist E.L. Doctorow, who died in July, and who thought journalists should embrace fiction: "I wish Bernstein and Woodward had not stuck to the factual detections of investigative reporters … With the highest scruples of investigative reporting, they ran into the limits of the form. If they had taken off from what they knew they might have gotten a greater, more comprehensive understanding of exactly what happened."
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