Who is Malcolm Muggeridge from The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice and what is their importance?

Malcolm Muggeridge is a journalist and television personality who makes a documentary film about Mother Teresa released in 1969, which he follows up with a book about her. These two relatively early devotional works on the life of the nun are largely responsible for starting the cult of Mother Teresa that soon escalates to a general belief among Catholics and non-Catholics that she is a saintly woman, Hitchens argues. Muggeridge even contends in the documentary film that footage shot in poor lighting within one of Mother Teresa's facilities for the poor turned out to be beautifully lit, because of divine influence. Hitchens portrays Muggeridge as foolish and deluded, and the clear implication that Muggeridge's lack of journalistic rigor in accepting Mother Teresa at face value has done a disservice to his audience and to the world at large, by helping to turn her into a stereotype of saintliness.