QA #3: Question One

The first question I speculated about this week was to what degree truth takes a role in non fiction? Someone had entertained the thought in a conversatuion about media, he asked me whether I was certain that newspapers were telling me the truth. While I understand his positon that in some cirumstances the media is censored and regulated to prevent the exposure of certain facts or perspectives, but for the most part the events reported by news outlets can be verified in that they actually occurred. Whether we can understand the full motives of the persons involved or in what order the events transpired may be blurred or altered by some news outlets, however there are other that will not. Again I can entertain the thought that media is biased, but it does not create the stories, it distorts the story. The events may be presented in a partcular way, but they are not conceived by the news outlets, they are only adopted by the news outlets and then transmitted in the form to which the organization believes is best.