Surrounded and programmed by the lobbyists he once despised, the man who once effortlessly straddled the aisle and spoke from the heart now carefully hews to a prompter-read, soulless far-right agenda.
Christian Avard | Posted 06.30.2008 | Home
It's interesting to me to see folks talking about experience still. In the most challenging time in our history, the Civil War, it was the earlier relatively inexperienced skinny lawyer from Illinois who saved the nation.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.04.2007 | Entertainment
For me, Ken Burns' stunning documentary shows that all war is evil and must be ended for good, not glorified or exploited for partisan political advantage.
Michael Giltz | Posted 10.02.2007 | Entertainment
Look at all the titles in the last two weeks that even ardent DVD fans can only shake their heads in happiness over.
Bob Cesca | Posted 09.28.2007 | Politics
The Bush Years have been a monumental, cataclysmic failure due to its inattention to what has made American great. The president and his thinning ranks of fawn-eyed Hannities don't understand this yet.
Peter Smith | Posted 09.27.2007 | Politics
In Bush's desert folly, nobody back home sacrifices, except for the families and friends of the men and women fighting the war.
Broadcasting & Cable | John Eggerton | Posted 09.25.2007 | Media
PBS' latest Ken Burns multipart documentary, The War, averaged a 5 rating/7 share in TV households, according to Nielsen Media Research overnight numb...
Roberto Lovato | Posted 09.24.2007 | Politics
More than the actual film, the controversy around the film will have done more to educate the country about the more than 500,000 Latinos who enlisted, fought or died during World War II.
David Harsanyi | Posted 09.23.2007 | Media
Does anyone else find it ironic that on PBS tonight, Ken Burns' film documenting the great sacrifices of freedom in WWII will have the words of the very men who fought for it edited out?
Roberto Lovato | Posted 09.21.2007 | Politics
Ken Burns and PBS have been embroiled in the "War" controversy since a UT Austin scholar and several other Latino leaders discovered that the film excluded Latino vets.
Broadcasting & Cable | John Eggerton | Posted 09.19.2007 | Media
Documentary producer Ken Burns told a National Press Club audience in Washington, D.C., Wednesday that he will never say never to war again, with a Vi...
Newsweek | David Gates | Posted 09.17.2007 | Entertainment
"The thing that really got me mad," Ken Burns says in explaining why he felt called to begin "The War," his forthcoming documentary series, "was findi...
Reuters Via Yahoo | Gail Schiller | Posted 09.10.2007 | Media
PBS has launched its largest marketing and promotional campaign ever for Ken Burns' 15-hour, seven-episode World War II documentary "The War," which p...
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Ken Burns | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics