This article was updated on Feb. 21 to clarify the sequence of events laid out in the first paragraph.At this year's Academy Awards, Netflix’s American Factory, produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s production companyHigher Ground, won for best feature-length documentary. The title should have been “Chinese Factory,” because the onlything American about it is the factory’s location in the small town of Moraine, outside of Dayton, OH. While thedocumentary opens with the Dec. 23, 2008, closing of what was once a General Motors factory, we are never told the backstory of that closing nor the role that Obama administration policies played after the president took office in January 2009,including further bailout negotiations, plant closings, and bargaining with the United Auto Workers (UAW).
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