Ken Burns, whose five decades of filmmaking have produced detailed portraits of presidents, wars, buffaloes and more, is about to take on a 21st century political lightning rod in the American Revolution.
His 6-part, 12-hour Revolutionary War project, already six years in the works, is slated to come out in 2025. While Burns encountered pockets of animus with his breakout historical work, The Civil War, in 1990, backlash at that time usually arrived via the U.S. Mail. Today, online vitriol flows freely across social media platforms, and the storm over the 1619 Project and other revisionist depictions of the birth of the country suggest that Burns could be next in the barrel.
“We call balls and strikes,” Burns replied when asked if he expects objections to be raised by right-wing viewers. The Revolutionary era offers “a really complicated narrative,” as opposed to the air-brushed image of a group of Founding Fathers creating...
His 6-part, 12-hour Revolutionary War project, already six years in the works, is slated to come out in 2025. While Burns encountered pockets of animus with his breakout historical work, The Civil War, in 1990, backlash at that time usually arrived via the U.S. Mail. Today, online vitriol flows freely across social media platforms, and the storm over the 1619 Project and other revisionist depictions of the birth of the country suggest that Burns could be next in the barrel.
“We call balls and strikes,” Burns replied when asked if he expects objections to be raised by right-wing viewers. The Revolutionary era offers “a really complicated narrative,” as opposed to the air-brushed image of a group of Founding Fathers creating...
- 12/15/2023
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Fox Business abruptly canceled its highest-rated show, Lou Dobbs Tonight, just one day after voting software company Smartmatic filed a $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox News that named Dobbs and other Fox hosts, claiming they were part of a “disinformation campaign” against the company.
Los Angeles Times writer Stephen Battaglio broke the story and reported that even though Dobbs “remains under contract at Fox News… he will in all likelihood not appear on the company’s networks again.” Fox anchors Maria Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro were also named in the suit.
Los Angeles Times writer Stephen Battaglio broke the story and reported that even though Dobbs “remains under contract at Fox News… he will in all likelihood not appear on the company’s networks again.” Fox anchors Maria Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro were also named in the suit.
- 2/6/2021
- by Peter Wade
- Rollingstone.com
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