Tulip, are terrifyingly over the top, but we are reminded that they are in the service of shadowy Lords and lawyers who may be worse. Pratchett constructs an unusually complex mystery plot that conjures Watergate, even as its editor, William de Worde, conjures William Randolph Hearst. A handwritten newsletter becomes a mass-market newspaper with a dwarf-produced printing press with moveable type and a light-sensitive vampire photographer who has trouble with a flash that regularly turns him into a pile of dust. The Press wants to be fed, and it demands obsessive attention from its servants. Institutions like the Post Office and the railroad have a seductive power in Discworld. Like the Moist von Lipwig stories from Going Postal to Raising Steam, The Truth is an industrial fantasy.
The public is less discerning and are easily drawn in by what we would now call fake news. News, we are told, is hard to define but a reporter knows it when he or she sees it. It is, if anything, more relevant in the post-Trump era than it was when it was written. But William has a powerful drive to spread the news, only intensified when Lord Vetinari is found unconscious next to a horse loaded with money after supposedly having. Like many other old noble families, the Ramkins are hard-headed, and never shirk a battle when Ankh-Morpork. Before long the Ankh-Morpork Times soon employing writer Sacharissa Cripslock and vampire iconographer Otto von Chriek is a hitand has ruffled a few feathers. Un, kas sks ar dvainas formas drzeu aprakstu, tas galu gal ks par. Un ne tikai, jo Ankh-Morpork Times ir absolti pirmais laikraksts, kas jebkad piedzvojis dienasgaismu vis Discworld. Lady Sybil is the last scion of one of the oldest clans of the Ankh nobility, the Ramkins. Viljams gaui netm ir kuvis par Ankh-Morpork pirms avzes redaktoru un vl nejauk ar par urnlistu-detektvu.
Her Grace, Lady Sybil Deirdre Olgivanna Ramkin-Vimes, The Duchess of Ankh. The Truth is one of Terry Pratchett’s very best novels. Lady Sybil Ramkin-Vimes, Duchess of Ankh Carina.
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