The process of writing a story isn't about fair. It's about getting to the heart of your story, getting to the truth of it. It transcends ideals of fair and unfair, right and wrong.
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Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.
Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.
This is not necessarily the answer people want, but ultimately, I think writing is an amoral process. Your ultimate responsibility is to the truth of the story you're trying to tell.
If you are having trouble with a story, it may not be an issue with the quality of the writing - there may just be too much of it.
Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.
Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.
For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum.
I think, as writers, our first responsibility is to writing an honest story. Tell the story you want to tell, without pulling your punches.
And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
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