Previously, the column was so different from a transcript that several subjects complained that their published interviews were distorted.
The filmmakers, the group says, selectively edited interviews and distorted its beliefs, including misrepresenting what it said would happen last Oct. 31, depicted in the film as some kind of end-of-the-world Judgment Day.
"The N.H.L.'s financial leaks to date have been very selective and completely distorted," Saskin said in a telephone interview from Toronto.
In the interview that Gingrich said was distorted, he also said, "Look, the first step is, you have to ask them the questions.
The voices are distorted, but what comes through is a poignant, bawdy interview of sorts.
Mr. Durbin, the Senate's second-ranking Democrat, said in an interview on Monday that these companies had distorted the program's purpose.
Thomas Hollande denied that he had given the Le Point journalist an interview, and said that his words had been "distorted" and taken "out of context" in what had been "a casual conversation".
But in interviews, they explained that certain scriptural passages are distorted by Islamic extremists like Osama bin Laden.
Only a few industry members knew what he looked like, and when he gave rare interviews, he would be photographed in shadow or distorted.
Controversy over the show especially accusations that interviews had been edited in a way that distorted the meaning of what had actually been said brought about a congressional investigation of the production processes for documentaries.
