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Old 07-12-2010, 11:28 PM  
Ron Bennett
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Much of what's on TV, including premium channels, is staged to some degree.

Even shows marketed as showing reality events, often don't - prime example is TruTV's Operation Repo - most of it is acted NOT real.

Something marketed as a documentary doesn't mean it's totally real either; justification for changing details, reenacting, embellishing, etc is that such programs are for entertainment. PBS is much better, especially for its nature / science related documentaries, but even there they take some artistic license so to speak - not all is what it appears.

Rambling on, but anyways, such "sneaked" prison camera footage is likely fake and/or so edited as to not reflect the true reality. Producers will typically require that everyone interviewed / individually portrayed, as opposed to a crowd shot, to sign releases - that further limits what and how events will be portrayed.

Ron
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