There are, however, pages and pages on the AOL-Time Warner merger and its impact on characters like Gerald Levin, the former chief executive of Time Warner, and Richard Parsons, his successor, along with several discussions of an inconsequential couple of days Turner spent at Harvard's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy in March 2001. In the news business, this is referred to as a notebook dump.

His reporting skill seems to outshine his writer's art. Much of "Uncovering Clinton" reads like what reporters call "a notebook dump" — a confusing mass of names, dates, places and allegations."

Pre-election notebook dump.