tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749284713567495415.post448933411770289939..comments2023-12-05T06:41:04.513-08:00Comments on The INTERNET WRITING WORKSHOP: Truth in JournalismCarterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08521960157526055910noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749284713567495415.post-4171388511304666002007-04-09T14:02:00.000-07:002007-04-09T14:02:00.000-07:00Ruth --If one is like me, and has spent any time a...Ruth --<BR/><BR/>If one is like me, and has spent any time at your blog, or is lucky enough to have conversed with you about pretty much anything, can only admire your honest and natural style of observing and writing!<BR/><BR/>I'd be curious to know how you feel about writing a biography/memoir that included one's family. There is advice out there but the pieces that I've read seem to almost sashay around some issues. Like, whether or not it's appropriate to document facts when a whole clan denies that something occured, and when police/court records tell another story. (As do victims!) And understand, this is not to indite any individual but to preserve the integrity of the writing or story. How far can or should we go to untangle a hundred years of lies when there is little or no ambiguity about "the facts?" Or are facts and truth irreconcilably different? There are so many considerations that, in the end, I'm overwhelmed and back away!<BR/><BR/>No, you don't have to answer. :-) This post just happened to touch on questions and boggles I've been wrestling with on and off for a few years...<BR/><BR/>Shayeshayehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18110369310865342835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749284713567495415.post-15266873678096357222007-04-09T13:16:00.000-07:002007-04-09T13:16:00.000-07:00Ruth,Aside from truth, there is also a concept cal...Ruth,<BR/>Aside from truth, there is also a concept called "truthiness," coined by Stephen Colbert of the Colbert Report on Comedy Central. This covers anything you know in your gut is true, regardless of evidence. The two combatants you wrote about doubtless both had truthiness on their side.Bob Sanchezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08350825385315155962noreply@blogger.com