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How The Jinx and Serial Strain the Blurry Ethical Lines of Crime Reporting | TIME
My issue with this type of storytelling is that as it is unfolding, it isn’t clear how much the storyteller knows. Are they saving something they already know for the big conclusion?' asks Jane Kirtley, professor of media ethics and law at the University of Minnesota.
Making A Murderer and the cult of factuality
Factuality can be defined as fact-based content which has much in common with investigative and other forms of journalism, but strongly features elements of narrative drama, soap opera, and other fictional formats such as cliff-hanging endings, unexpected plot twists and jaw-dropping moments of revelation (don’t worry – no spoilers for Making A Murderer to come).
'Making a Murderer' and True Crime in the Binge-Viewing Era - Rolling Stone
Making a Murderer's runaway success has brought the series attention well outside the small circle of dedicated documentary viewers, and with it questions about whether Ricciardi and Demos are filmmakers or advocates, documentarians or journalists. 'Documentary filmmaking is its own unique form,' Berlinger says. 'It's journalistic but it isn't purely journalism. It's storytelling, but it's not pure storytelling, because you can't veer from the truth, whatever that means.'
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