Taking an Approach

I would describe Joseph Harris' "taking an approach" as transforming one thing into another. There is a retention of material but the external form may change. Harris says it's when "The original does not go away but is remade into something new." The NY Times and the blog I have been following, young entrepreneur can be seen as "taking an approach" because they both rewrite stories with that can change the context of the original story. Certain bias sways everything one way or another and these stories are "transformed" essentially into entirely new stories. They retain the same fundamental building blocks but as a whole the stories have been changed. This makes it easy to see the potential corruption of the truth due to these motivated manipulations of the truth. Smaller companies and blogs may tend to agree with certain larger news corporations and so may acknowledge them in some way. Harris spoke about this as one of the three strategies of "taking an approach." These strategies are acknowledging influences, turning an approach on itself, and reflexivity. Generally these terms are all forms of "mirroring" other writers. It seems to be a form of agreement between writers through text and can be seen as a form of ideological alliance. Look at how many times Shakespeare’s plays have been redone for a perfect example of changing the context of a text while still retaining the plot, aka "taking an approach." This is exactly the same thing that news sources do when they write stories.