Frontline's Guide To Journalistic Practices

Here is a link to Frontline's guides to journalistic practices. This is pertinent to our current discussions about documentaries and ethics, and is pretty extensive about different stages of the production process.

FOR YOUR JOURNAL:

These guidelines deal with concrete practices in documentary representation. Look closely at how the guidelines apply to preproduction/production/postproduction practices.

Describe some of the ways in which the guidelines offer specific instructions on how to balance credibility and accuracy with creativity and persuasiveness.  (For example, use of music, manipulation of images, dramatization.)

A distinction is made in the guidelines between “public affairs” and non-public affairs programs. What practices are acceptable in one and not the other? (For example, in dramatization and interviewing practices.) Would The Thin Blue Line or Roger & Me have passed Frontline guidelines for public affairs?

What different functions are evident in the guidelines for the “executive producer” vs “producer” vs. “co-producer”? What about interviewee vs. “expert/consultant”?