Louis Menand has an excellent article about the history and current practice of documentary filmmaking in this week's New Yorker magazine.

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/atlarge/?040809crat_atlarge

I'm afraid it's relevant to the stimulating and disasterous discussion here on Fahrenheit 911, but some of you might like to read it anyway.

Warning: the article is long, and the author is kind of a liberal, but then, so am I.

Jeremy