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"Following Lindsay Lohan or craft brewers doesn't have the same impact as exonerating wrongly convicted murderers or probing years of alleged FBI bribery"

Jordan Zakarin writing for The Wrap;

On the other side of the coin, the reality show — documentary's younger sibling — is thriving both financially and production-wise, with nascent cable channels scooping up endless series about pawnbrokers and extreme truckers. Channels like Oprah's OWN try to give a serious examination of celebrity, following in the footsteps of E! and Bravo, which have been “documenting” the lives of the pseudo-famous for years.


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