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Politics, News & Issues > Political Issues Commentary: When journalism becomes fiction

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It is very hard for journalism to be 100% non-fiction. See, fiction is whenever a writer or other journalist takes a story and rather than tell the whole truth they embellish it.

This embellishment can come from leaving part of the story out, adding something to the story, or even the way it is said. It does not have to be intentional. When we edit a story for time and don't get the "whole story publicised" we have quite possibly changed the meaning of the story for someone. Now, as if this wasn't complicated enough we have to think of one more thing that makes journalism fiction.

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