讲故事与叙事2016latimes.com
一个分六部分的故事：被控藏毒的家教会主席母亲
A six-part story of a PTA-president mother, framed for drug possession
导读
这是《洛杉矶时报》的一篇六部分深度调查报道，讲述一位 PTA 会长母亲被人栽赃藏毒的真实故事。它展示了长篇叙事报道如何通过悬念、细节和结构层层推进，是叙事新闻写作的优秀范本。
可以直接用的写作要点
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长篇叙事报道可以用'如果当时稍有不同会怎样'的反事实段落制造张力，凸显命运的偶然性。
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具体细节(如报警电话里一个不寻常的名字)可以成为推动情节和埋下伏笔的关键线索。
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六部分连载结构让复杂事件得以按时间线和悬念节奏逐步展开，而非一次性倒出。
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报道的力量来自真实人物的可信度刻画——'她看起来不像撒谎的人'本身就是叙事支点。
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制度性的非理性恐慌(如毒品战争)为恶意栽赃提供了土壤。
这是反社会者利用政府对毒品非理性态度伤害他人的典型案例。这种模式历史上反复出现：斯大林时期邻居互相告发'某人反对斯大林、讲笑话'，全家便在凌晨 NKVD 来访后消失。如果没有毒品战争，警察和社会不会如此神经质，罪犯栽赃他人也不会这么容易。
rdtsc查看英文原文
This is a very good example of psychopaths taking advantage of government's irrational response to hurt others. Irrationality here is the War on Drugs. I think that should be talked about in more details in this case. Granted, if it was shorty after a terrorist attack they said she was making bombs in her basement, maybe sprinkle some fertilizer residue on her car. This always happens, it is a common pattern. I remember being told how during Stalin's time it wasn't uncommon for neighbors to rat on each other and say "so and so is against Stalin and making jokes", and magically the whole family disappears after an early morning visit from NKVD. Well they shouldn't have been letting the cows graze that close to the fence, that'll teach them. If War On Drugs wasn't there and cops and society wasn't twitchy and irrational about it, the criminals would have a harder time. This just made it all too easy (and the real reason this is news is because she got way and by strange coincidence the detective wanted to look deeper into the story).
受害者能否洗清冤屈，很大程度上取决于其身份、财富与运气，这暴露了司法的不平等。
文章中一段话让我很触动：Duff 想到，在很多地方这件事的结局会完全不同——如果栽赃发生在洛杉矶帮派社区而非富裕安宁的橙郡，如果发现毒品的警察是新手而非目光敏锐的老手，如果她本人稍微不那么可信……如果你来自美国，这段话没有让你停顿一下，就该重新审视自己的价值观。
nerdponx查看英文原文
This is sort of tangential to the rest of the article, but I'm glad it was mentioned: > Duff considered the possibilities. In so many places, he thought, it would have gone differently. If the attempted frame-up had happened in one of the gang neighborhoods of Los Angeles where he used to prosecute shootings, rather than in a rich, placid city in Orange County ... if the cop who found the stash of drugs in Kelli Peters’ car had been a rookie, rather than a sharp-eyed veteran ... if she had been slightly less believable ... I know there's a lot of talk about inequality and such on HN lately, but if you're from the US and this paragraph doesn't catch you for a second, in my opinion you need to reexamine your values.
称赞这篇报道的叙事水准，并感叹小地方也能出现真正的正义。
太震撼了。这是我小时候熟悉的《洛杉矶时报》水准的报道。我本是橙郡本地人，南橙郡通常只有超速罚单之类的小案子，没想到这里也能伸张正义——显然起作用的不只是财富。
Aloha查看英文原文
Holy Shit. This is the kind of reporting I grew up with from the LAT - normally I wouldn't think of Irvine as a place of righting wrongs, or even justice - but clearly more than just wealth prevailed here. If more peoples interactions with the justice system went like this, we'd be better off. (To be clear I'm an Orange County Native - one does not think of South Orange County as a place of great crime - largely speeding tickets, and minor violations.)
报警电话中一个专业名字的细节，暗示了栽赃剧本的真正作者。
911 报警电话里报的名字是'Chandraskhar'(应是 Chandrasekhar)，这不是随便能编出的名字——钱德拉塞卡是 1983 年诺贝尔物理学奖得主，'钱德拉塞卡极限'在天体物理学中很有名。果然，那个疯女人的父亲正是天体物理学家。我猜报警电话的'剧本'就是他写的。
gomijacogeo查看英文原文
The 911 call claimed his name was 'Chandraskhar' (I assume a vowel got dropped in there and they meant Chandrasekhar), which isn't a name I'd expect someone to produce at random. But it's a pretty notable one if you have a physics background; Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar won the 1983 Nobel Prize for physics and the 'Chandrasekhar limit' is a well known number in astrophysics. So, I was wondering if someone in all of this would have some connection to astrophysics and lo and behold the crazy wife's dad is an astrophysicist. Makes me guess who wrote the script for the 911 call.
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