At Toronto Film Festival, Cautions on Documentaries

Link: At Toronto Film Festival, Cautions on Documentaries – NYTimes.com:

The report found that documentarians, while they generally aspire to act honorably, often operate under ad hoc ethical codes. The craft tends to see itself as being bound less by the need to be accurate and fair than by a desire for social justice, to level the playing field between those who are perceived to be powerful and those who are not.