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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.

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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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