Bill Nichols' “The Question of Evidence & The Terrorist Event

After reading Bill Nichols' “The Question of Evidence & The Terrorist Event,” please answer the following questions:

1. The author writes "The facts do not speak for themselves" What does he mean?
2. What do you think is the main point the author is trying to make about evidence?
3. What is Nichols arguing about the relationship between the "liveness" of some forms of news, and the process of "making meaning" in which news narratives are always partially engaged?
4. What was the most interesting thing you learned from this reading?