PositiveThe Guardian\"It is a cracking read, and a complicated one, flawed in many places yet absorbing in its frank desire to hold journalism to account for becoming overly willing to sell out to advertisers and thereby endangering its own future ... Where [Abramson\'s] account shines is in her stories of the thrill of the news chase ... What [Abramson] misses is that coverage of these issues is not a matter of the latest fashion; it’s a shift in American history. Despite that, her best storytelling in the book is about women in journalism, including herself ... Merchants of Truth in its frankness is an essential read, and its skewering of journalism’s leaders will earn Abramson some new enemies, as well as provoke old ones.\
