Where Does the Line Between Fact and Fiction Fall for Documentaries?

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Nonfiction works like Mike Daisey’s disgraced Apple exposé and Davis Guggenheim’s new Obama video blur the line between journalism and promotion, says Jacob Bernstein.

Published Mar. 20 2012 4:45AM EDT

articles/2012/03/19/where-does-the-line-between-fact-and-fiction-fall-for-documentaries/obama-road-weve-traveled-bernstein_aoltiv — Pete Souza / The White House

In the new 17-minute campaign video, The Road We’ve Traveled, the documentarian Davis Guggenheim lays out the case for a second Obama term.

Without Obama, his film says, we would likely have plunged into a depression similar to the one the United States saw in the 1930s under Franklin Delano Roosevelt....

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Where Does the Line Between Fact and Fiction Fall for Documentaries?

Nonfiction works like Mike Daisey’s disgraced Apple exposé and Davis Guggenheim’s new Obama video blur the line between journalism and promotion, says Jacob Bernstein.

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Jacob Bernstein