http://www.pifmagazine.com/2010/07/according-to-whom/ The Arts and Technology Magazine Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.pifmagazine.com/2010/07/according-to-whom/comment-page-1/#comment-250 Yobvazy Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:03:30 +0000 http://www.pifmagazine.com/?p=10168#comment-250 Very Good and a refreshing point of view. Very Good and a refreshing point of view.

]]> http://www.pifmagazine.com/2010/07/according-to-whom/comment-page-1/#comment-244 Duff Brenna Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:04:28 +0000 http://www.pifmagazine.com/?p=10168#comment-244 Really wise and informative, Derek. As easy to read as any article should be. Really wise and informative, Derek. As easy to read as any article should be.

]]> http://www.pifmagazine.com/2010/07/according-to-whom/comment-page-1/#comment-223 Bill Yarrow Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:30:13 +0000 http://www.pifmagazine.com/?p=10168#comment-223 Derek Alger is so right about vague attribution or lack of attribution at all in news articles today. Journalism, if it aspires to truth, needs to be verifiable. Sources, to be credible, need to be corroborated. I applaud this piece for its guts. Good and important topic! Derek Alger is so right about vague attribution or lack of attribution at all in news articles today. Journalism, if it aspires to truth, needs to be verifiable. Sources, to be credible, need to be corroborated. I applaud this piece for its guts. Good and important topic!

]]> http://www.pifmagazine.com/2010/07/according-to-whom/comment-page-1/#comment-224 KennedyCopenhagen@gmail.com Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:26:21 +0000 http://www.pifmagazine.com/?p=10168#comment-224 Absolutely right. The line between fiction and nonfiction is certainly not straight -- it's more like a blot that's all over the page. A good writer can make the facts say anything. Every writer has to select which details to use and which not to use and now to arrange them in such a way to yield the best story. But the definition of best is, as you so rightly point out, in accordance with the writer's (or for that matter the souce's) integrity and what he is after. It is not so much the tale as the teller that shapes the truth, or that part of the truth, we receive. Absolutely right. The line between fiction and nonfiction is certainly not straight — it's more like a blot that's all over the page. A good writer can make the facts say anything. Every writer has to select which details to use and which not to use and now to arrange them in such a way to yield the best story. But the definition of best is, as you so rightly point out, in accordance with the writer's (or for that matter the souce's) integrity and what he is after. It is not so much the tale as the teller that shapes the truth, or that part of the truth, we receive.

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