Jordan Kelly
British Literature/Composition
Period 6
29 November 2013
It is the only the human condition of curiosity to explore the depths of the unknown. Done through questioning and reasoning, journalism, and other methods of recording, help one unearth these mysteries, while also using their observations to separate fact from fiction. Furthermore, they establish truth and export it to an audience of global proportions.
Journalism helps one establish truth based on questioning and reasoning, allowing one to obtain a big picture, or full analysis. Frankel uses this as a “sanctity of question marks”, relating to how questions are needed to gain information that evolves into a fact. However, these facts can only be ascertained after an analysis between fiction and non-fiction of the given information. For example, Frank McCourt refused to put quotation marks around the dialogue in his childhood memoir, Angela’s Ashes, because his dialogue was “reconstructed” and not within the parameters in the veracity of quotation marks. Moreover, it shows the honesty that one must have as a journalist and the importance of it in gathering information.
Finding the truth from a gathered set of information can prove to be difficult. The human conditions of curiosity and deception, are both helpful-yet harmful throughout this process. However, with the appropriate set of sources and trustworthy journalists; a truth may be a bit easier to discover in this sea of mysteries.
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