"Well-made documentaries are a thermometer of democracy. They can grate, confront, hurt, move, but must not be based on deception and deception." It is not the first time that a production company that makes a program for RTL has been exposed during the filming of a so-called 'documentary series' (Volkskrant, February 8). At a school in Veenendaal, 'fake students' were placed in class for this series. A number of 'serious' documentary filmmakers find this unethical. “It tarnishes our profession.”

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