‘Religious and moral issues are better dealt with in documentaries than in soaps’. Do you agree?

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'Religious and moral issues are better dealt with in documentaries than in soaps' do you agree?

A documentary is a programme that educates you about different aspects of one issue. Soap operas are ongoing drama series that deals with issues that occur in real life but in there own fictional way. An example of a documentary is panorama, which deals with problems that people feel strongly about. An example of a soap opera is Eastenders, this deals with real life issues but does not have a true story behind it.
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Documentaries give better-researched information, which means it is more accurate this is because they have real people who have been through these situations, for example there are many programmes on about people who have been raped and to make these programs more realistic they have interviews with somebody who has been affected by the issue. But some people might say that soap operas deal with the issue better because they put the information in a exiting and interesting way.

Documentaries are mostly on after the watershed, which means they do not get the information out to as ...

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