Roy Peter Clark's The Line Between Fact And Fiction
After reading Roy Peter Clark’s “The Line Between Fact and Fiction”, I easily find myself wholeheartedly agreeing with his sentiment that addition is a far greater danger in the world of writing than subtraction will ever be. Those who omit parts of the tale that is being crafted are, as Clark puts it, still remaining faithful to the nonfiction genre associated with journalism reporting, but to add things that did not occur veers into entirely new—and equally hazardous—territory (p. 166). With the expansion of technology and how widespread the wave of information has become any exclusion s of a reported situation can be still be sought out elsewhere, yet creating details alters the entire basis of the story, and presents an issue with integrity.