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Post #539479 by bigbrotiki on Mon, Jun 28, 2010 12:10 PM

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In today's world of reality TV and fake "Survivor"-type series the journalistic ethics of what comprises a documentary have devolved from solid education based on facts to "edu-tainment" and finally to pure entertainment, all because that -supposedly- is what the masses want to see. The media is rapidly becoming the mind-numbing machine that was so aptly parodied in the film "Idiocracy", and "documentaries" are no exception.