Posted on 07/19/2025 9:03:53 AM PDT by Mariner
Ken Burns has made more than 30 documentaries and won multiple Emmys.
But without funding from public television, his educational programming such as "The Civil War" and "Baseball" might never have existed, he told "PBS News Hour" in an interview Thursday.
Even today, the acclaimed filmmaker whose works — including his upcoming project "The American Revolution" — are broadcast on PBS, said his films get around 20% of their budgets from the Corp. for Public Broadcasting, the body Congress recently voted to defund.
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Then I visited the sites.
That experienced informed my admiration of Shelby Foote.
Experience.
“Can you cite an example of that bias?”
I can cite what I saw Burns say years later in an interview.
This is not a direct quote but he stated the slide show was biased against the South because the war was about slavery and because everyone is against slavery it was not possible to be unbiased.
Again, that is not a direct quote but it is an accurate summary of his stated views, as I remember.
Yes, in the original series Burns was less transparent in his attacks on the South and his hidden agenda fooled many people.
Now we see Burns inching closer and closer to demonizing most of the founding fathers.
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I would think the NPR and PBS would find this liberating. They will need to get creative with their fundraising, and they can report on anything like like with no fear of any funding clawbacks from FedGov.
Seems liberating from my perspective.
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