AJC: Laughs are not accidental in journalism novel ‘The Accident Report’

Newspaper reporters were once powerful enough to topple a government using only their typewriters. Watergate sent countless scruffy idealists to J-school to emulate Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Atlanta newsman Ralph Ellis was one of them, and, for his fiction debut, he draws on his halcyon memories in “The Accident Report,” a cagey, comic novel about a small-time journalist with delusions of grandeur.