Poynter's Roy Peter Clark says he's become a cynic: "When I read or hear a scene in a story, for example, that seems too good to be true — like performance artist Mike Daisey’s exploited Chinese worker rubbing the stump of his hand over the magic surface of an iPad — I now assume it is NOT true." His prescription? A new Ten Commandments for narrative non-fiction — a list of rules designed to separate honest practitioners from the liars, fakers, and cheaters.
