Re: Caitlin on the crucial relationship between fact and narrative - Archived Message
Posted by Bluefool on February 4, 2019, 3:33 pm, in reply to "Re: Caitlin on the crucial relationship between fact and narrative -"
"I seem to remember that the Guardian's Luke Harding said that he was essentially 'a storyteller' too and was rounded on for his trouble." To be fair to Johnstone, what she's saying here is that the MSM does sell us stories and that to compete with this; people who stand up against these stories have to not just use bald facts, but to - for want of a less awful phrase - "sex up their dossier". Her argument being if people are faced with a story about espionage and pervy sex with Russian prostitutes, or a load of boring technical details about why it's actually load of rubbish, then they'll want to listen to the hooker thing instead. Whereas I think Harding's being a "storyteller" is a thinly veiled euphemism for him making up a load of cobblers rather than dealing in facts like a journalist might.
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