Ethics Lecture
Former Rolling…sorry…Hitsville‘s Bill Wyman, a former NPR and Salon arts editor, has posted a strong argument against Errol Morris‘s payment of interviewees for Standard Operating Procedure (Sony Classics, 4.25), largely in response to this morning’s N.Y. Times story.
My view of this, posted last Tuesday, is that “notebook reporters can’t pay for information — that’s completely out and always has been — but documentaries are a different matter, I feel. As long as what the subject says to the documentarian can be verified to be a portion of absolute truth and nothing but, I don’t see the problem.”
“As long as what the subject says to the documentarian can be verified to be a portion of absolute truth and nothing but, I don’t see the problem.”
that was my main issue with Standard Operating Procedure, that I didn’t think that the people being interviewed were telling the truth. I thought that they were making excuses and trying to cover their ass after doing things on camera that were beyond reproach and that Morris let them off easy by just filming them telling their story and not questioning what he was being told more… if he paid them, he got ripped off.
I’m getting sick of journalists considering themselves a Charity event. Why do they deserve to hear things for free? All the networks now understand that money talks and suckers walk – Fox has a nice deal that they can give you a book and movie deal if you give their network the exclusive – so does NBC-Universal, Disney-ABC-ESPN and CBS-Viacom-Paramount.
When you interview a subject, you’re asking them for them to give up their time and interupt their schedule. So why not ask for a little bit of the budget?
What’s even worse is Ben Stein and Borat lying to their subjects about the nature of their documentary? What’s worse – paying or lying?
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