Today’s NYT has an interesting story “At Festival, A Splash from Michael Moore but Cautions on Documentaries” (headline of print edition). The story mentions a new report from the Center for Social Media at American University, “Honest Truths: Documentary Filmmakers on Ethical Challenges in Their Work.”
From an information literacy viewpoint, as a librarian I found the article’s references to the report, based on interviews of documentary filmmakers, indicating that manipulation of “individual facts, sequences and meanings of images” if that might help viewers to grasp the documentary’s “higher truth” very interesting. I took a brief look at the full report and plan to read all of it.