Source Attribution and Two Narrative Modalities in Narrative Journalism
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The distinctive dilemma of narrative journalism emerges at the crossroads of two distinctive but related modes of news-storytelling practice—fact-reporting and story-telling. One path on this crossroads steers its way towards the historical archives of verifiable facts and sources, and the other path is driven to the dramatization of personal experience and news events. This article compares two distinctive narrative modalities of news-storytelling—the ways the news-storytellers negotiate or sacrifice one aspect in favor of the other, with Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and John Hersey’s The Algiers Motel Incident. With the focus on their attributing practice, this article examines how the news-storytellers locate sites of reportorial integrity, ambiguity, and transgression. In Cold Blood and The Algiers Motel Incident well illustrate the dilemma of using attribution and the consequent modus operandi of leveraging one practice against the other. If Capote tries to suppress the intrusive reporting act to highlight the reported event, while still striving to preserve the sources of the information at the minimally visible level, Hersey foregrounds the sources to the fullest to highlight his commitment to the ethics of reporting. The two representative reporting modalities exemplify the fact that the readers experience not only the facts and information of the reported world but also the modes of news-storytelling where the reporters decide which perspective to tell and weigh the benefits with the risks, and aesthetics with ethics.
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The distinctive dilemma of narrative journalism emerges at the crossroads of two distinctive but related modes of news-storytelling practice—fact-reporting and story-telling. One path on this crossroads steers its way towards the historical archives of verifiable facts and sources, and the other path is driven to the dramatization of personal experience and news events. This article compares two distinctive narrative modalities of news-storytelling—the ways the news-storytellers negotiate or sacrifice one aspect in favor of the other, with Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and John Hersey’s The Algiers Motel Incident. With the focus on their attributing practice, this article examines how the news-storytellers locate sites of reportorial integrity, ambiguity, and transgression. In Cold Blood and The Algiers Motel Incident well illustrate the dilemma of using attribution and the consequent modus operandi of leveraging one practice against the other. If Capote tries to suppress the intrusive reporting act to highlight the reported event, while still striving to preserve the sources of the information at the minimally visible level, Hersey foregrounds the sources to the fullest to highlight his commitment to the ethics of reporting. The two representative reporting modalities exemplify the fact that the readers experience not only the facts and information of the reported world but also the modes of news-storytelling where the reporters decide which perspective to tell and weigh the benefits with the risks, and aesthetics with ethics.
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