ABSTRACT
“The Tyranny of Story” recognizes how editors of factual programs face multifaceted challenges in practicing their craft. They need to negotiate between the rights of program participants, producers’ expectations, the formal requirements of the genre, demands of the marketplace, and honouring reality itself as it unfolded. This chapter asks whether the seeming drift from “documentary as sobriety” toward “documentary as diversion” has resulted in changes to editors’ views and actions.
