Word: factualism
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...Chicago Sun-Times' William Granger, complaining of "puerile" writing and "caricatures," described Roots as "so transparently bad at times that I was filled with embarrassment." TIME'S own critic, Richard Schickel, labeled the TV production as "Mandingo for middlebrows." He wrote that Roots offered "almost no new insights, factual or emotional," about slavery; instead, there was "a handy compendium of stale melodramatic conventions...
...first four hours, which bring Kunta Kinte, Haley's own great-great-great-great-great-grandfather from a happy childhood in an African village to a flogging in the slave quarters of a Virginia plantation, offer almost no new insights, factual or emotional, about the most terrible days of the black experience. Instead, there is a handy compendium of stale melodramatic conventions by which, since abolitionist days, popularizers have tried to comprehend a crime so monstrous that, like the Holocaust, it is beyond anyone's ability to re-create in intelligent dramatic terms...
...found guilty, Fredie faces up to six months in jail. After this trial, he can appeal to the Supreme Judicial Court if he believes there has been an improper finding on a question of law, not on factual issues...
...continually interspersed with cuts from memorable films. Often, as when World War II melodramas are blended with the real thing, the sequences are both striking and moving. Sometimes the results are sheer hilarity. "Throughout the '30s," the narration says, "America's biggest factories were its dream factories." Factual glimpses of that decade are juxtaposed with scene after scene of little Shirley Temple, ever an orphan, lisping and dancing her way into the audience's heart. The moody films of the '40s follow a series of loners down a series of mean streets-an echo of postwar...
Producers make historical programs such as "The Missiles of October" seem like strictly factual accounts of events. They are "blurring the line between fact and fantasy. That is the most dangerous thing in television today," said O'Connor...