Of course documentaries represent a certain perspective and point of view. Are they biased? I would not use that term. Do they represent and portray a particular ideological point of view. Yes. Why is there always an assumption that documentaries are objective? They are not. Is there such a thing as objectivity? That is open to debate. Everything in our lives is ideological and political in nature. That is an inescapable fact. Should we dismiss documentaries because they are not objective? No. Why? Because we would be left with an extreme form of cultural and political relativism and left to live in a world where in words of Paul Feyerabend "anything goes."![]()




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