Tuesday, January 20, 2009

What price truth?

I've ploughed this furrow before, but I am extremely concerned at the way fact and fiction are quite deliberately being allowed to become confused. The latest example is the film "Frost/Nixon" which tells the story of David Frost's TV interview with disgraced ex-president Richard Nixon. Except it doesn't. We know exactly what they said to each other, because it's all on tape, but the film has them saying completely different things. So it's a fake, a deliberate falsification - simple as that, and calling it a "dramatic retelling" doesn't alter the fact. Don't be fooled. Problem is, I fear many people who see the film will be.

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