Documentary

From TeeVeePedia, the Internet TV Encyclopedia.

A documentary is a rudimentary form of reality TV, only unscripted. No documentaries exist after 2002, the year American Idol began its run on American television. Wait, so I guess that means there are no American documentaries after 2002. So maybe people in other parts of the world like England, China, and Zambia make documentaries still. But that doesn't matter so much.

Documentaries are often made about depressing topics, such as coal miners, endangered species, or the slow, painful, and unstable recovery of a patient diagnosed with a rare hormonal disorder, being treated with a potential cure that involves highly dangerous procedures involving sharp objects. This aspect of the "documentary style" was jettisoned as it progressed into a medium that the average television viewer wanted to watch. Now we have people who can't sing, on stage in front of millions, and people who can't make business deals given (temporary) control of companies. Things are much better now - instead of being reminded that other folks have much worse lives than we do, we are reminded that even we can sing and balance a checkbook better than the idiots on TV.