Eugene raised the question, "Is F9/11 a doc?" in his blog last night, a debate that I've been having with a lot of my friends down here in Orlando. Most of the F9/11-as-not-a-doc proponants I've talked to describe Moore's film as "propoganda," as if they are expecting a documentary to be "objective" and "comprehensive". If you're looking for objectivity, look to science and mathematics -- filmmaking is never truly objective, and the perspective of the filmmaker is one of the key qualitative componants of a doc. That perspective might seperate a "good doc" from a "bad doc," but it doesn't seperate docs from non-docs. Even nature documentaries inevitibly fail the "objective" test in most cases, as the editor's art is one of selectivity.