The godlike narrator in journalism is preposterous. The reconstruction of events is always susceptible to distortion, and you must always make it clear exactly where your information is coming from.
People lie, or they don t remember accurately.
A good journalist realizes he creates fragments of the truth. There s nothing wrong with a journalist who raises questions and doesn t pretend to have the answers. Passages submitted should be no more than a few paragraphs long. You MUST include the author, title, publisher, and page location of the quoted passage. It is assumed that copyright for passages submitted resides with the owner of the work quoted.