We sure can't let anyone tell the truth on TV.
That's why we have docu-dramas.
I don't recall these complaints about composite characters, and docudramas when Hollywood released All the President's Men, so close to the actual events. What was it, 5 years?
I don't know that a docudrama is any worse than newspaper articles with unnamed sources, history professors teaching that the US attacked itself on 9/11, etc.