Citations:schlockumentary

Noun: "(pejorative) a documentary programme or film regarded as schlock, typically due to its content being deemed sensationalistic, propagandistic, or factually inaccurate"

 * 1988 — Tom Shales, "Connie Chung, Stressing The Obvious", The Washington Post, 25 April 1988:
 * And stars there must be in the new breed of breezy, gabby, grubby network schlockumentary that NBC News has perfected.
 * 1988 — Alice Kahn, "Decline and Fall in Yuppieville", Los Angeles Times, 5 June 1988:
 * In the five years since they were featured in the televised schlockumentary "Dirk and Bree: An American Yupple," Dirk Miller and Bree Wellington have been through hell.
 * 1990 — "Roger & Him", The Washington Times, 23 February 1990:
 * If you think society has outgrown that observation, consider the schlockumentary "Roger & Me."
 * 1990 — "NBS Secret Weapon May Be Jane Pauley", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 12 March 1990:
 * NBC News has been nailed all too often for the circus-like way the "Today" show's personnel moves played out, for a series of prime-time schlockumentaries,
 * 1991 — "Nostradamus Had A Thing For Massachusetts Politics", Worcester Telegram & Gazette, 3 March 1991:
 * But maybe the real lesson to be learned from that TV schlockumentary and the enduring Nostradamus mystique is that there has been little change in statescraft and politics over the centuries - and even less in human gullibility.
 * 1994 — Pat Califia, Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex, Cleis Press (1994), ISBN 0939416883, page 51:
 * On April 26, 1980, CBS aired "Gay Power, Gay Politics," a schlockumentary anchored by Harry Reasoner which made San Francisco look as if it were run from behind the scenes by leathermen and drag queens.
 * 1999 — Joe Flint, "Shock King", Entertainment Weekly, 8 January 1999:
 * "A lot of people say that this is schlockumentary programming," says Nash. "But it's only schlock if you make it schlock. The challenge is to take the material and make it more than just pictures: Tell a story."
 * 1999 — Troy Patterson, "Celebrities: Caught on Camera", Entertainment Weekly, 5 March 1999:
 * The narrator of this 53-minute schlockumentary insists that "the public's appetite for seeing their favorite stars caught off guard... is insatiable."
 * 2001 — Verne Gay, "Current coverage draws friendly fire", Chicago Tribune, 15 November 2001:
 * (Besides hosting "History's Mysteries" on the History Channel, he anchored a schlockumentary for Fox titled "Opening the Last Tombs: Live from Egypt.")
 * 2002 — Julia C. Mead, "Film Can't Be Our Hamptons, Locals Say", The New York Times, 9 June 2002:
 * "It was inaccurate and frivolous. It was schlockumentary, and I am disappointed because she is a great filmmaker."
 * 2005 — James L. Hirsen, Hollywood Nation: Left Coast Lies, Old Media Spin, and the New Media Revolution, Crown Forum (2005), ISBN 9780307238672, unnumbered page:
 * So now even when we're hit with something as audacious as a Rather-stained memo or as demeaning as a Michael Moore schlockumentary,
 * 2011 — Robert Morrison, "One more thing about bin Laden: Look who's calling Osama 'assassin,' says columnist", The Jersey Devil, 7 June 2011:
 * His conspiratorial "documentary" (try schlockumentary) called "Fahrenheit 911" was shown to convention bigs who praised it lavishly.