Giving new meaning to eyewitness accounts, the digital way
In John Grisham's " The Testament ," there is a character in the legal drama novel named Snead who is identified as the driver and assistant to the main protagonist billionaire Troy Phelan. He is reported to have witnessed and knew everything about Phelan. He knew his philandering ways and even witnessed when he committed suicide. However, when Snead discovered that his master had died without leaving anything for having worked for him for many years and as he had on various dates promised, he decides to yarn an account that would suit him to inflict revenge and earn from lawyers who were seeking to challenge Troy’s holographic will. Snead's account reminds me of journalism and eyewitness accounts. More often than not, the media is not a first-hand witness to events and mainly rely on eyewitnesses to tell the story. It is assumed that the eyewitnesses will tell the story as they saw and the journalists can only use their skills to document and attribute the h...