tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13172818.post511211575561464722..comments2023-10-22T04:57:07.468-04:00Comments on <center>WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS?</center><center> (J.D. Rhoades' Blog)</center>: Where's The Outrage?JD Rhoadeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07123361739160525998noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13172818.post-87728933979230212622007-05-01T14:42:00.000-04:002007-05-01T14:42:00.000-04:00As a novelist, one of the things that occurs to me...As a novelist, one of the things that occurs to me is that we as media consumers need to be a little suspicious of news stories that seem to have a little too good of a dramatic arc. Invariably, the closer they feel to fiction, the more likely they are to BE fiction.<BR/><BR/>Yes, dramatic and heroic things happen all the time in real life, especially in war zones, but the truth of them is usually significantly messier than presented by the media, who, after all, loves something that seems like it could be instantaneously turned into a TV script.<BR/><BR/>Jessica Lynch, yes, was heroic. But not in a Rambo way. Tillman was heroic, in a tragic way.<BR/><BR/>But their stories lack the packaging that the media's looking for now.Mark Terryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09410424046477699059noreply@blogger.com