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The Exile of Ed Champion
How did one of the literary world's most entrenched insiders get relegated firmly to outsider status? By Molly McArdle
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He appears to be the venomous depressive type. In his state of discontent he lashes out against those who, in his mind, are unjustly rewarded and obsesses on the traits that are just so damning. He attacks others with his words and receives harsh criticisms for it, spurring his depressive state further. He's achieved mild success, but it seems that others wouldn't acknowledge it.
This was a long article, so you can perhaps sympathize with my question, but did he ever actually commit a crime? I read and skimmed a good deal of it and it was mostly harassment I guess.
I was mostly surprised at the fact that no mention of Ed Champion being detained or dead; I went ahead and checked to find him perfectly alive and having scrolled down, I've even seen seen the comment he left. This sort of writing defaming and the article is clearly against that single individual.
To elaborate: the press when reporting a crime is usually limited to stating who the police suspect for a crime, who the police have arrested in suspicion of a crime, and trial outcomes. Now this isn't all that they can report on, but this piece goes beyond any of this.