PositiveThe Boston Globe\"... a big, ambitious chronicle of the past decade ... Some have criticized Abramson for favoring the legacy newspapers over the digital start-ups. There may be something to that ... But those sections strike me as warranted and fair ... Besides, Abramson is generous in acknowledging the importance of their best journalism, including Craig Silverman’s groundbreaking work for BuzzFeed on fake news and Elle Reeve’s mini-documentary for Vice about the deadly neo-Nazi protests in Charlottesville, Va. ... Errors in galleys are common, but they generally involve typos and spelling mistakes. And not all of the problems were addressed in the final version of the book. Inaccuracies notwithstanding, Merchants of Truth is a valuable and insightful survey.\
