documentaries are not journalistic and even journalism does not strive to depict objective truth but to sort facts into a narrative

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the people who made hoop dreams paid for one of their subjects electric bills when it got shut off. there are little examples of this everywhere in the history of documentary production. once you put a frame around something, it changes.

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it's interesting that the documentary about the unknowability of objective truth has people for the first time questioning if documentaries depict objective truth

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I wrote about a crucial Texas race you might not be paying attention to: who replaces Ken Paxton as Texas AG in one of the most influential such offices in the country, one Paxton has used to persecute whichever groups the GOP happens to be targeting www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

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This is literally just what the Biden presidency was though.

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