This week we have an absence of applause for the 1981 newspaper revenge thriller Absence of Malice. Tara and Jacob discuss why Paul Newman hates journalists, getting burned by sources, and the career of screenwriter and alt-weekly alumnus Kurt Luedtke. Plus, Wilford Brimley pronounces ‘subpoena.’

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