All else is a world of signs.
All art is trickery, but news and documentary are closer to the Real.
And we still tend to privilege this almost Platonic approach to art. After all, art imitates life, and never the other way around. Let us consider an example of news. O.J. Simpson and the White Bronco. We are all familiar with it, so it should be pretty easy for you to conjure up the image in your mind.