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On 14 June, 1999, BLUE EAR published an article by Jules Siegel which took some of America's journalistic icons to task in no uncertain terms. It caused a ripple in the publishing world, not only because it dealt with the controversial auction by Sotheby's of letters from acclaimed and reclusive novelist J.D. Salinger (22 June, 1999) to a then-teenaged Maynard, but because of the "scandal" claimed by columnists like the New York Times'Maureen Dowd. G21 contacted Siegel at his home in Cancun, Mexico, to follow-up on this story. In an exclusive interview with The World's Magazine, Siegel amplifies on his motivations for the BLUE EAR article and talks about the Maynard controversy in general.G21: In your article for BlueEar.com last month, "Pitbull Journalism," you assert that part of the reason that US journalists were so hard on Joyce Maynard was that they are "...firmly enmeshed in an economic system whose prime axioms are secrecy and obedience." Would you like to expand upon that and explain for us more fully what you mean?
JULES SIEGEL: In the days before black helicopters, some folks believed that Ft. Knox was empty, that the gold had all been spent or stolen. There was no way that you could go in there personally and check, they argued, and there was no reason to trust the government's word....
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