Her findings first appeared in a doctoral thesis, which evolved into this memoir, in which she charts her research and the interviews she conducted with journalists, lawyers, and Carleen Bryant's friend Joan Errington-Dunne. Notable absentees are Carleen Bryant, Wainwright, and Totaro, who refused to be interviewed. The memoir is a fascinating case study in media betrayal, one that only cursorily examines the treatment of the immediate victims of the massacre.

Aware that, as a journalist, she too is caught in the ethical maelstrom, Voumard adopts a restrained approach to an emotionally charged subject. She makes no definitive judgements but brings clarity to the debate on media ethics, raising the question of whether the journalists' code of ethics applies to longer forms and books. As a memoir, The Media and the Massacre gives little insight into the author, but as an investigative account it provides an intelligent reflection on the two faces of journalism: a noble pursuit of truth and an exploitation of individual rights. The irony, as Vomard suggests, is that it is being published on the twentieth anniversary of the massacre, when it may be time to leave those who grieve alone.