Edward Jay Epstein is an American investigative journalist with 13 books under his belt. His latest, The Big Picture: The New Logic of Money and Power in Hollywood, sees him regularly guest on Slate whenever they need a commentator on the convoluted and probably nefarious deals of Sin City. Epstein studied government at Cornell and Harvard. His master's thesis was on the search for political truth, about The Warren Commission, which investigated JFK's shooting, and his doctoral dissertation concerned the decision-making process of TV news. Both were published as books. He is currently researching a book on the 9/11 Commission. NZBC sat this hard-working New Yorker down for a virtual java with a side order of healthy scepticism.