Ric Gaston

Truth and Liability Ric Gaston

Publisher Marketing: What is Truth And Liability about? Truth And Liability is about the early-to-mid-life struggles of a beautiful woman who marries an American sports icon, dealing with her own internal conflicts, increasingly rabid paparazzi, and the get-everything-for-nothing American legal system of the late 20th Century. At least that is what it is on the surface. But what is it really about? If you ask people what other books are about, such as: Old Man And The Sea, To Kill A Mockingbird, or Catcher In The Rye; you will get answers such as: An old Cuban fisherman, A pre-pubescent tomboy in a Depression-era small town in the South, and A misfit college boy trying to fit into 1950's America; respectively. But that would only be what those stories are on the surface. Those stories are about so much more than the simple words written in each sentence of their text. Not to attempt compare anything written in Truth And Liability in any way to those great works, these are merely well known examples. The real story within Truth And Liability is the media firestorm that ripped the blindfold off the eyes of Lady Liberty, offset the scales of Justice, and eradicated the law of innocence until proven guilty. Within this story are the unrealized loss of freedom in America and the loss of everything that heretofore Americans held in high regard as they were sacrificed on the altar of sensationalistic journalism. Of course these things have been happening slowly over a period of many years, but the historical event captured in Truth And Liability may be the defining moment when the sacred duty of a free press to report facts clashed with the sacred right of the freedom of speech, that moment when the story that sold copy became more important than the truth. Truth And Liability raises the question we should all be asking. With a press that cares not for the truth, can we ever return to the days when America had a superman fighting for truth, justice and the American way of life? Perhaps more potently; Can Americans ever return to being the people the entire world depended on and looked up to?