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Biased Truth
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A documentary can, and will, represent the truth as long as it presents all of the facts. ...
Robert Coles writes about this idea in his essay “The Tradition: Fact and Fiction” on page 218, where he states, “…Doing documentary work is a journey…a passage that can become a quest, even a pilgrimage, a movement toward the sacred truth enshrined not only on tablets of stone, but in the living hearts of those other whom we can hear, see, and get to understand. ... What we offer others in the way of our documentary reports, then, is our mix of what we have observed and experienced, as we have assembled it…” (Page 179)
Coles statement does not deny truth, it simply asserts that along with the truth comes opinion. ... The question is: does that mean that the documentary does not represent the truth? It is in my opinion that the documentary does indeed represent the truth because it still presents all the facts. ... It is true that no documentary can give every single detail but that does not mean that it does not present the truth. ... ” If the author creates a story that is so biased that no one will take it as the truth, then what is the point in creating it in the first place. ... The documentary, while presenting the truth, also presents opinions.
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Title: Biased Truth
Words: 1589
Rating: None
Pages: 6.4
submitted by: Valf14
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