Devoted to show business and the entertainment industry

For a number of years, documentaries have been turning out productions that attack businesses. While the idea isn't bad in the sense of at times helping there to be checks and balances in the marketplace, they increasingly are becoming simply political rhetoric based upon half-truths.

While anyone has the right to make these propaganda films, like Michael Moore, who's considered the originator of the genre with Roger and Me in 1989. The problem is that documentaries have been considered great tools for teaching and instructing, while showing unique situations all over the world.

To cheapen the genre by making them into cheap, political statements, to me is harming the legitimacy of the documentary field. Just like Al Gore's silly An Inconvenient Lie Truth which has been blasted by experts. It's just a stupid political statement by Gore to keep himself in the public eye.

The people who have been in the documentary space need to let the public understand that there is a huge difference between someone calling their personal agenda a documentary, and something that is a true documentary. I think that the tabloid-like new creations are going to cheapen documentaries and unfortunately turn them into the equivalent of a pop talk show.

The general public needs to understand that much of this that is alleged fact, is really simply somebody's point-of-view being wrapped around a few spurious facts. In other words they are propaganda films.

Now that capitalist haters are starting to peddle their wares as truth, using the platform of the name "documentary," it's just a new battleground for the minds of people that are confused by the misuse of unproven assertions.

My hope is that really good, honest documentaries aren't cheapened as a result of those that don't mind destroying them.

These fictional creations need to have a line saying that they are "paid commercials," because that's all they really are.