[theDentist]

Clancy, Ludlum, Flynn, etc do it all the time. Bad people in real organizations (CIA, FBI, PETA, AFL-CIO) taking advantage of power and position and policies for their own means to commit atrocities. they weave a tapestry of entertainment.

Or those authors who have written of actual people and events as a fictional 'friend' (Reagan bioigraphy, God and Generals, etc). Again, real people and events, false story.

i guess we'll agree to disagree.

[curiosity]

Bad people in real organizations (CIA, FBI, PETA, AFL-CIO) taking advantage of power and position and policies for their own means to commit atrocities. they weave a tapestry of entertainment.

They don't make up false, slanderous stories about real people who command the respect and reverence of millions.

What would you say to a novelist who turned George Washington or Benjamin Franklin or any other of our national heros into a cold-blooded murderer?

Or those authors who have written of actual people and events as a fictional 'friend' (Reagan bioigraphy, God and Generals, etc). Again, real people and events, false story.

Okay, but in each of these cases, the fiction does not materially change the true character of the people involved. Nor is anything slanderous made up about them.