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How the streaming wars hugged documentaries to death.

Subjects who expect paychecks! The loss of editorial control! Reality TV editing!

I’ve written a little about the fuzzy line of what’s real in documentaries, but things have gotten weirder since then, as the streaming wars pumped money into the genre — and now are threatening to take that money away.

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