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Jennifer R. Ballengee is a different academic who has attempted to address the issue of accurately reporting reality and history (2001). Ballengee concentrated on the Holocaust and the best ways to portray it. She allows Geoffrey Hartman, co-founder of the Fortunoff Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University, to describe how every type of testimony "is a text in need of interpretation" in one of her interviews. Both the actual photos and the reconstruction of Escobar's killing could be construed as revelling in death and violence in this instance. Instead, they represent Colombians' liberation from Escobar's murderous reign. Authenticity, according to Hartman, is not a justification for treating testimony or any other historical representation as gospel truth. In actuality, for some Colombians, Escobar's death might have signalled an increase in new narco violence. No matter how genuine and trustworthy a source may seem, it will always only give us one or a few of the many possible interpretations of reality since absolute reality will always remain singular and unrepeatable.

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