ABSTRACT
Producing journalistic documentaries for television, however, is an enterprise riddled with ethical and moral dilemmas. First, there are the enormous costs associated with film and TV production. The risks of art shaping reality are obvious, and the opportunities presented by technology grow every day. Even the scene of Morrison's death, so carefully wrought and serene, is in reality the subject of significant controversy. Reality is little more than a first rough draft of history to Hollywood, a useful guide but one that in the minds of many practitioners definitely needs some "punching up". Worse, real history is now frequently used as a marketing tool to promote feature films. That movies inspire curiosity about history is indisputable. Study guides often create the same fuzzy boundaries between reality and invention. It even includes conversations between Joadson and John Quincy Adams—only Joadson never existed.
