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From Eric V... 2. Is reality TV, such as cops, a documentary in that it does show an on going story with dialogue?

I do not believe that this would be considered a documentary according to Hempe. There is no planned shots, so it is real, but there is also no story, just a combination of events. The storyline does not mix it or tell anything, it is just reoccuring themes and low-level interviews. The most documentary-ish style of the show is the post-arrest interviews. The cops generally tell what happened without being led in by loaded questions, so they're stories are genuine to what they can remember honestly happening.