http://www.moviesaboutgladiators.com/2012/09/capote-the-line-between-fiction-and-non-fiction/ Thoughts on Film Mon, 17 Sep 2012 20:35:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 http://www.moviesaboutgladiators.com/2012/09/capote-the-line-between-fiction-and-non-fiction/#comment-790 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:46:20 +0000 http://www.moviesaboutgladiators.com/?p=4382#comment-790 Great review, Dustin. I think Capote was guilty of becoming part of his own story, to the extent that he got to know his subjects. Guys like Blair simply made stuff up out of whole cloth because he found it easier than actually doing the work of journalism. I don’t think you need Truman Capotes for Jayson Blairs to come about. And while Capote did introduce the idea that it’s okay to tell a story rather than report an event in a way that really subverts journalistic integrity, that kind of narrative didn’t become the norm until the post-9/11 news blitz that turned most major news outlets into opinion factories because the desire for content outstripped the outlets’ ability to meet the need with quality material, nor did such an effort prove satisfactory to any existing business model. Alas.

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