Brian - Over fall break, I saw the movie Quiz Show, which is about a television game show which is tailored to keep the public's interest by a scam in which certain contestants know all the answers before they get asked the questions on the air. The plot of the movie revolves around two conflicting stories: that of the game show producers, who claim that everyone's making money and no one's getting hurt; and that of the federal investigator, who says that television is presenting the public with a false sense of reality. Ultimately, the court has to decide whose story has more narrative coherence and narrative fidelity. It is a lack of coherence on the part of the game show's producers and contestants that spark the investigation in the first place. The federal investigator recognizes there is something that doesn't quite fit in their story. Although the investigator's story does not seem quite believable to people at first, he manages to convince people that his story has coherence and just as important, his story has fidelity. That is, the TV viewing public can identify with it because they are the ones being abused.