[zuminator]

0) This surprisingly has nothing to do with chess engines or the US Democratic Party.

1) Documentary programs are almost always faked, in the sense that they present false continuity and false spontaneity. People often don't notice the manufactured aspect unless a subject they're intimately involved with is featured, and then it's immediately apparent.

[denton-scratch]

I had some training on video news production, from a guy that does editing for major channels. You simply can't make engaging video without lots of cutting and splicing. You have to re-order segments to make a coherent storyline. All "live" video news is processed this way, otherwise nobody would watch it.

The scales fell from my eyes; that was the beginning of my awakening to the true nature of video news.