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I recently received this sentence in an email, and I was unsure about the subtle difference between dire and se dire.
Nous essayons de donner une vision fidèle de ce qui s’est dit durant le conseil.
My initial assumption is that se dire is roughly 'to be said' with a focus on the language actually being spoken whereas dire focuses the attention on the speaker. Is avoir été dit not proper French?
yes, you could translate
ce qui s'est dit
by
what have been said
you could also say
... une vision fidèle de ce qui a été dit ...
but beware, in some case "il s'est dit" = "he told himself"
"Il s'est dit que ce serait une bonne idée"
means
"He told himself it would be a great idea"
It is simply a difference in time-reference. In "s'est dit" we have the present tense in the passive format, whereas in "a été dit" we have "passé composé" in the passive format.
