I don't think that going back to redfining journalists (instead of journalism) first is picky at all -- now I think I see where you are coming from, I think. It seems to me that a journalist has as much a role in the content of the document/fiction as do the other participants of the film. Can the journalist/documentarist control what is presented? no. I agree that the participants are as much creating the film as the filmmaker, perhaps that is how the subjectivity of the thing builds toward an objective representation. In other words, the more the subjectivity is spread around (between the filmmaker(s), and the participants of the film contents) and then collected together into one "story" the more objective it might become. Then again, we have to remember how we all present ourselves and view each other in different settings and under various circumstances. The minute one realizes they are being filmed, they act differently than they would if the filmming were candid. What is a journalist? Maybe little more than a kind of voyeur. Carol Robinson Gallaudet University