Greetings all:

Yesterday's perfect ice storm threw a bit of a wrench into our planned program, but I'm very glad Alex Gibney was able to make it and that John Santos was willing to take the hot seat on short notice. I'd like us to continue the conversation that we had to cut short last night by posing a question that seemed to resurface in a variety of modes: How do we best represent the 'truth' in media? And does the documentary form finesse this question in ways that other media forms (e.g., the newspaper article, the radio show, or the academic monograph) cannot, would not, should not? Blog away.

And an organizational note: running over also meant that we did not get to benefit from the Joe and Phil Vblog-show, so I am going dedicate at least a half hour of next week's class to this, most likely the latter part, depending on their schedules.

VTY
JDD