Comments on: Ken Burns Disappoints? http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/09/ken-burns-disap.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: The Charters Of Dreams http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/09/ken-burns-disap.html/comment-page-1#comment-7358 The Charters Of Dreams Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:15:30 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/09/ken-burns-disap.html#comment-7358 <p>I too think "The War" was excellent, and I ran into this essay that I think makes a great point about how Iran is not an imminent crisis by comparing Iran to the threat that the Axis Powers presented to the west in the 1940's as documented by Ken Burn's "The War:"</p> <p>http://libertydesirebelief.thechartersofdreams.com/2007/10/iran-vs-a-real-crisis-ken-burn.html</p> I too think “The War” was excellent, and I ran into this essay that I think makes a great point about how Iran is not an imminent crisis by comparing Iran to the threat that the Axis Powers presented to the west in the 1940′s as documented by Ken Burn’s “The War:”

http://libertydesirebelief.thechartersofdreams.com/2007/10/iran-vs-a-real-crisis-ken-burn.html

]]> By: Dan http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/09/ken-burns-disap.html/comment-page-1#comment-7357 Dan Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:51:23 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/09/ken-burns-disap.html#comment-7357 <p>I think that latino bit got stuck on there after the fact, in response to pressure groups. Ken Burns is dependent on PBS, tax-funded television is dependent on politicians, politicians are dependent on interest groups, and interest groups demand their due. </p> <p>Ahhh, <a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5158523.html" rel="nofollow">here it is:</a></p> <blockquote>In the intervening years, Rivas-Rodriguez has become a watchdog for these men and women. If a memorial ceremony in Washington excludes Latino vets, she calls the organizer and offers to put them in touch with a few. When she heard that Ken Burns, America's premier documentarian, had made a 15-hour production that didn't include a single Latino veteran, she demanded to know why. <p>She called his publicist and met with officials at PBS, which began airing the seven-part documentary, The War, Sunday. They told her the film had been edited and there was nothing they could do.</p> <p>Burns explained publicly at the time that Hispanic veterans simply had not sought him out.</p> <p>"We could not have told the story of the Second World War if we burdened ourselves with seeking every single group," the Associated Press quoted him as saying recently.</p> <p>After a maelstrom of letters and complaints, spurred largely by Rivas-Rodriguez, the filmmaker went back and added interviews with Latino vets, along with an account from an American Indian.</blockquote><br /> </p> I think that latino bit got stuck on there after the fact, in response to pressure groups. Ken Burns is dependent on PBS, tax-funded television is dependent on politicians, politicians are dependent on interest groups, and interest groups demand their due.

Ahhh, here it is:

In the intervening years, Rivas-Rodriguez has become a watchdog for these men and women. If a memorial ceremony in Washington excludes Latino vets, she calls the organizer and offers to put them in touch with a few. When she heard that Ken Burns, America’s premier documentarian, had made a 15-hour production that didn’t include a single Latino veteran, she demanded to know why.

She called his publicist and met with officials at PBS, which began airing the seven-part documentary, The War, Sunday. They told her the film had been edited and there was nothing they could do.

Burns explained publicly at the time that Hispanic veterans simply had not sought him out.

“We could not have told the story of the Second World War if we burdened ourselves with seeking every single group,” the Associated Press quoted him as saying recently.

After a maelstrom of letters and complaints, spurred largely by Rivas-Rodriguez, the filmmaker went back and added interviews with Latino vets, along with an account from an American Indian.

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