These books are largely anti-journalistic: they tend to reject the notion that photographs serve primarily to document and record events; they draw attention to artifice and technique; they manipulate narrative structure, or ignore it entirely.
Indeed, much of the same story is repeated in both the Conquest of Mexico and the Conquest of Peru in respect to descriptions of battles, characterizations, use of metaphor, dramatic encounters, and crises, suggesting that Prescott perhaps manipulated his narratives for literary effect.
State television has manipulated its narrative of the conflict to soothe viewers' feelings of inadequacy and imperial nostalgia, while talking up Western plots and machinations.
Breaking with classical tradition, Ford manipulates the narrative structure, opening with a violent, pre-credit sequence (very unusual for the time) and moving toward an open ending that finds the wagon train still in transition.
I saw Cameron as a pale version of his mentor, possessing all the faults of Blairism; the presentation over policy; manipulating the narrative of economic incompetence of the previous government; talking the talk of equality of opportunities, while offering greater assistance to the very wealthy and little to nothing to improve the lives of the majority.
The Republicans over the years have shown themselves to be very adept at manipulating the narrative of divisive Democratic candidates.
However, his narrative manipulated those concerns and underestimated the gamble of radicalization.
Now a provocative new film, "Koch Brothers Exposed," seeks to uncover how the Koch brothers have manipulated the political narrative for personal and ideological gain, particularly in the post-Citizens United era.
Sakr's work experiments with the concept of a database narrative, whereby existent information is not manipulated into a story, but represented and enhanced by special effects to illustrate naturally occurring narratives.
In the post-fact contemporary world, where data is manipulated to support political narratives and fake news abounds, having access to good, reliable data is essential.
The danger is that the game itself becomes the metric, with winning institutions – not necessarily those offering their students the best possible teaching, but those able to manipulate data – crafting narratives and spinning results in the shrewdest way.
