ABSTRACT

When editing a slow-moving documentary interview, you are faced with the need to speed things up. This can be done by removing words, sentences, and phrases. However, such cuts are likely to distort what the interviewee intended. Similarly, in journalism, situations occasionally arise where a timeline might be condensed to make a series of events more dramatic at the expense of what actually happened. These are a few of the ethical complexities that may arise during the final stages of media completion.