In Agreement

G
In point 194, Shields claims "good nonfiction has to be as carefully shaped as good fiction, and I'm not bothered at all by this artifice" (66). I agree with this idea because nonfiction is just as much art as fiction. Nonfiction is not just the plain, bare facts. Nonfiction can also be made interesting and story-like, and this is the trick it plays. We think the interesting and story-like parts are also the facts, but they are actually created by the writer. Nonfiction without this artistic manipulation would not be good nonfiction, it must be shaped like fiction in order to become good nonfiction.

H
In point 242, Shields claims "our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any" (82). This is so true. We are crazy about celebrity reality T.V. shows and breaking news on twitter because we want not only to experience real events but also to experience every real event. We cannot bare the thought of not knowing or not being there. Yet the irony is that those experiences aren't real either. Every line in reality T.V. is scripted, and the news is fed to us precisely in a way to get a reaction or depict a desired image.

I
In point 248, Shields claims "we're living in a newsy time" (84). Couldn't agree more. Everything is news! Someone from a movie has a baby, their face is all over the magazines. An organization makes a decision in Thailand and we hear about it in Colombia. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, and I don't think Shields is either, I think it's just the nature of our culture to want to know everything. It's part of our search for reality: we want to be a part of reality everywhere.