Most recent public comments by Wenting Wu https://nowcomment.com/users/18764 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46240?scroll_to=522077 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46240?scroll_to=522077 Right, relationship plays a very important role between the writer and the subject. And once they established a good relationship, the subject will be more relaxed while talk to the writer, which may also have an impact on the authenticity of information Wed, 18 May 2016 06:47:52 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44650?scroll_to=522075 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44650?scroll_to=522075 Exactly, by doing so, both sides will receive possible benefits. Both sides need to use the other to do something good for them. Wed, 18 May 2016 06:59:42 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44650?scroll_to=522045 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44650?scroll_to=522045 Right. He would do whatever he has to do to get the information he wanted. Being friendly is just one of the strategies the journalists used to do. Wed, 18 May 2016 06:57:27 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44649?scroll_to=521706 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44649?scroll_to=521706 I agreed with Rand. Putting all cards on the table at once is taking a risk to let the story being untrue. Also, the journalist could not remember every detail so that will cause the writing less truthful. Telling story should take steps and let the listener take processes. Sun, 15 May 2016 15:10:03 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44649?scroll_to=521705 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44649?scroll_to=521705 I agreed. I guess being overbearing is one of the unique personalities of his writing. He wants his story wrote in the way he wanted without other opinions. Sun, 15 May 2016 14:55:14 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44650?scroll_to=521704 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44650?scroll_to=521704 I agreed with you. Being nice is the best way to gain trust. As seeking information from the subject, been trusted and assumed as a friend could help finding out more truthful secretes which he won’t tell to other strangers. But as a role of reporters, the final goal is to write the most truthful story. Wed, 18 May 2016 06:57:27 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44649?scroll_to=518419 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44649?scroll_to=518419 I guess the word “roofless” meant less faith worthy. Putting all cards on the table may cause others to question the reliability of the information. Thu, 12 May 2016 07:46:01 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44650?scroll_to=518405 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44650?scroll_to=518405 Just like a brand new couple, the writer and the subject spend lots of time together to know deeply about each other. I guess the reason why it sayes the subject is more susceptible to the pleasures and excitement is he is the one telling the story. Plus, he isn’t required to know about the journalist as much as the journalist is. As the reading we had, the writer and the subject stayed in the same house and shared stories of each other; experienced how other's feeling. Therefore, we could metaphor the relationship between the subject and the writer as the love affair. Fri, 13 May 2016 11:52:33 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44649?scroll_to=518383 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44649?scroll_to=518383 Right. telling story should take steps or say it strategically but not all at once. Wed, 18 May 2016 06:54:31 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44650?scroll_to=518152 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44650?scroll_to=518152 Well, relationship plays a critical role on how this dynamic works in both A Private Life of Michael and in the Journalist and the Murderer. The subject assumed that establishing a closer relationship with the writer could help on getting more positive opinion in the writing. But in fact, the job responsibility of a journalist is to provide truthful story regardless how close the relationship is with the subject. Sat, 14 May 2016 08:01:46 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44650?scroll_to=518144 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44650?scroll_to=518144 Yes. and because both sides value more on the profit side, they decided stay together. Sat, 14 May 2016 07:59:12 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44648?scroll_to=518143 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44648?scroll_to=518143 does it meant no limits or unscrupulous behavior？ Wed, 11 May 2016 07:05:27 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44650?scroll_to=517966 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44650?scroll_to=517966 As a reporter, the reason why McGinnis decided to stay closely with MacDonald is to gain trust or build friendly relationship with the accused murderer. While staying closely with MacDonald, he would have a better chance to find out some secretes about the subject. However, on the other hand, it would be a good chance for MacDonald as well. He could drag a creditable reporter to be on his side or gain his trust by being friendly and showing the files which contains positive information. Sat, 14 May 2016 07:59:12 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44648?scroll_to=517963 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44648?scroll_to=517963 From my understanding, moral anarchy meant not morally appropriate behavior. As the journalist tried to find out the truth from the subject, he might do something or ask some questions that are not morally appropriate. But as the job of a journalist, it is understandable as long as he provides the most truthful story in the writing. Wed, 11 May 2016 07:05:27 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44649?scroll_to=517748 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44649?scroll_to=517748 I wouldn’t say it is a good idea to put everything on the table at once. Just like pouring water into a bottle, pour a large bucket of water all at once will result in the loss of most the water. The same as telling a story, the journalist could not remember every detail so that will cause the writing less truthful. Wed, 18 May 2016 06:54:31 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44649?scroll_to=517745 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44649?scroll_to=517745 I agreed with Ayannah and Georges’ points, the Wannbaugh is not afraid to tell everything because he wants to be the protagonist of his story. He wants his story to be told in the way he prefers, as Ayannah wrote, he’s story is raw. Sun, 08 May 2016 07:36:57 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44648?scroll_to=517742 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44648?scroll_to=517742 The job of a journalist is doing the best work to deliver the most truthful story to his audiences; sometime even work in a state of moral anarchy. In the reading of Pylon and A Private Life of Michael Foot, this statement was often informed very clearly. No matter the it’s the journalist in Pylon or the biography in Michaels, they would try different method to deliver the most truthful information. Thu, 12 May 2016 07:44:20 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46240?scroll_to=508268 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46240?scroll_to=508268 I think it is because there might be a chance that the biographer misunderstood the truth or exposure something which the subject kept as secret. Sat, 09 Apr 2016 07:51:57 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46240?scroll_to=508267 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46240?scroll_to=508267 I agree with your point. As the job characteristic of a biographer, he should stay in the third person perspective to write about the subject. Sharing a bed may affect the writer on how the story would go or the truthfulness of the story. Sat, 07 May 2016 08:00:33 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46240?scroll_to=508266 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46240?scroll_to=508266 I agree with you that sometime people are unwilling to hear the truth. Especially when the biographer brought out something that the subject isn't really want people to know about. Because of the special job characteristic of a biographer, he can't really ask whether the subject will be okay with what he's going to write about. Therefore, it is unlikely for the biographer to avoid offending someone when he or she wants to tell the truth. Sat, 09 Apr 2016 00:39:01 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46240?scroll_to=508257 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46240?scroll_to=508257 I just realized that I used the wrong word. what I meant was the third person perspective. Sat, 09 Apr 2016 07:50:30 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46240?scroll_to=507703 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46240?scroll_to=507703 Because of the different role of each character, biographer and subject cannot share the same bed no matter how close they are in the reality. As the role of a biographer, he should stay in the third person persecution to write the subject; just like the hunter and the deer. Sharing a bed creates a very personal and intimate connection between the two. They can share each’s opinion and might affect other’s thoughts. As a result, it might impact how the story would go or the truthfulness of the story. Sat, 09 Apr 2016 07:50:30 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46239?scroll_to=500324 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46239?scroll_to=500324 Opposite to treating people as a human being, treating people as "material" indicates that the journalist doesn't come here to exchange their opinion of certain event or to argue who is right or wrong on something. The journalist is merely recording and describing Michael and Jill. Sun, 20 Mar 2016 09:16:45 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46239?scroll_to=500323 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46239?scroll_to=500323 Michael doesn't see the journalist as an invader as he said "It's been arranged for such things." Michael thought the Pilgrim's Lane was designed for his guest and for people to create, although the journalist came here to write his personal life, Michael thought that sharing his life with the author had became one part of his daily actives. Sun, 20 Mar 2016 09:15:44 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44121?scroll_to=500318 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44121?scroll_to=500318 Neither of the reporter's two drafts do justice to the story the novel has to tell. The novel illustrates the nature of limitations of reporters that reporters were often restricted by the rules and written style. Reporters were prevented from writing creatively. Sun, 20 Mar 2016 09:15:04 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44121?scroll_to=500309 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44121?scroll_to=500309 The reporter expresses his feelings toward the editor by calling him a bastard. After the editor has restricted him for a long time, and he was doing things that he disagreed with. This caused his anger toward the editor. The reporter is going to get drunk because he needed to escape from his depress feeling in the real world. He expects the editor to pay for the drinks because he thought the editor was the responsible for what he had been through. Sun, 20 Mar 2016 09:13:28 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44121?scroll_to=500302 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44121?scroll_to=500302 The copyboy thinks he is reading "the beginning of literature" because the writing style of the story is different to the descriptive writing style of the ordinary newspaper. Also the context of the story is ex-ordinary which one could only read in the novel. Fri, 20 May 2016 23:46:37 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44058?scroll_to=494904 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44058?scroll_to=494904 Need to understand reporter's role in this story and the relationships among the three people. Fri, 11 Mar 2016 08:26:59 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44058?scroll_to=494870 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44058?scroll_to=494870 I think the reporter is being told that he shouldn't involve too deep within this relationship. Although he wants to be part of the story, he fails to complete his goal. Fri, 11 Mar 2016 08:33:38 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44057?scroll_to=494858 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44057?scroll_to=494858 I agree that the reporter didn't think reporting what he saw was enough and the editor just want the story that could effectively catch one's attention regardless of what the heart or truth of the story. And it was wrong to write what others tell him because hearsay was not necessary the truth. Fri, 11 Mar 2016 08:38:18 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43908?scroll_to=474454 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43908?scroll_to=474454 The movies want to show how busy the reporters are and how obsess the reporters are about their job which don't leave any time for them to care about their appearance or personal lives. Fri, 19 Feb 2016 08:38:32 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43908?scroll_to=474449 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43908?scroll_to=474449 The phrase "at water to fish" demonstrates the connection between the office and the people in the office. Office is the only place that both the editor and the reporter be alive. It is also the place that traps their lives. Fri, 19 Feb 2016 08:35:09 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43908?scroll_to=474446 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43908?scroll_to=474446 The words dusty and gloomy here suggest that the way journalism is practiced is nasty and negative. They suggest that the reporters will report any thing that can attract people's attention regardless of how the people in the story feel or how harmful the story will be to the people. Fri, 19 Feb 2016 08:30:17 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43908?scroll_to=474444 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43908?scroll_to=474444 The term "corpse-like" let the readers think that the reporter is the type of person who does not have any facial expressions or who can't feel any emotion. He is being very objective on the fact that he collected and won't put any personal opinions on the event that he reports. Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:50:24 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43908?scroll_to=474438 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43908?scroll_to=474438 I am agree with you that the purpose of the downfunnelled lighting is foreshadowing the rightness and wrongness. That is a interesting point that you made. Sun, 15 May 2016 08:16:27 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43908?scroll_to=474436 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43908?scroll_to=474436 The "downfunnelled light" not only describes the light condition inside the room, but also demonstrates the emotional state of both the reporter and editor. It is depress and stressful. Thu, 19 May 2016 23:52:03 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46235?scroll_to=474429 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46235?scroll_to=474429 I think there are three reasons that causing autobiographers can't tell the truth. One is that one might unable to be honest to himself if the event he wrote is negative to his statue on the society. Second reason will the event is not only related to himself or herself but also others who don't want to disclose themselves, such as the first question pointed out. The third reason is even the writer is telling the truth but the reader may doubt about the authenticity of the story and may think the writer is lying. Fri, 20 May 2016 17:47:59 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46235?scroll_to=474420 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46235?scroll_to=474420 Sat, 21 May 2016 03:10:25 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46235?scroll_to=474418 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46235?scroll_to=474418 Biography will suffer if the first loyalty it to friends because one might try to hide something that is related to his or her friends and that event may have negative effects on the friends' reputations or statues in the society. And if the subject is not willing to tell the truth or refuse to tell the story, then it may hurt the creditability and authenticity of the biography. Fri, 19 Feb 2016 10:28:39 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46232?scroll_to=466642 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46232?scroll_to=466642 I guess "buffering the Biography" means that the process of writing the biography is very slow. Tue, 09 Feb 2016 07:46:23 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43907?scroll_to=466623 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43907?scroll_to=466623 The news that the editor wanted should be important for people to know, as the breath is important for people to survive. The editor expects the reporter to find something that people care to know. Thu, 19 May 2016 19:01:58 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43907?scroll_to=466614 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43907?scroll_to=466614 The reporter should be able to catch and find the essential place or people in the event. "As crow to carrion", it is the instinct of the a reporter to get to the center of an event before others do. Tue, 09 Feb 2016 07:54:55 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43903?scroll_to=455984 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43903?scroll_to=455984 Thu, 04 Feb 2016 14:11:56 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46229?scroll_to=455981 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46229?scroll_to=455981 In psychology, there is one theory called social desirability bias,It tells that when people take surveys about themselves or their opinions, they have the tendency to over report "good behavior" or under reporting "bad" or undesirable behavior. In this case, when the author asked questions that involved personal life or the answers to the questions may have negative effects to his or her reputation, he or she might be unwilling to answer. To answer the question, I think it is also human nature to show the bad sides but instead of showing bad sides of oneself, people love to show the bad sides of others to the public. Thu, 04 Feb 2016 14:20:10 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46229?scroll_to=455970 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46229?scroll_to=455970 Thu, 04 Feb 2016 14:17:57 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43903?scroll_to=453115 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43903?scroll_to=453115 Wed, 03 Feb 2016 07:23:18 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43903?scroll_to=453077 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43903?scroll_to=453077 Mon, 08 Feb 2016 21:47:19 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43903?scroll_to=453076 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43903?scroll_to=453076 Fri, 19 Feb 2016 21:27:37 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46229?scroll_to=453072 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46229?scroll_to=453072 Thu, 19 May 2016 07:38:25 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46229?scroll_to=453069 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46229?scroll_to=453069 Sat, 21 May 2016 02:05:07 -0400