Ken Burns

Bad camera angles were not the only thing wrong with former CBS and NBC anchor Katie Couric’s Friday interview with PBS documentarian Ken Burns on her Substack page. After spending much time on Burns’s upcoming series on the American Revolution, the pair moved on to discuss the state of history education in the country more broadly, which Couric described as “going backwards” and Burns labeled…

Ubiquitous PBS presence, documentary director, and dogmatic liberal Ken Burns is making the media rounds for his latest upcoming 12-hour, six-episode epic The American Revolution, debuting on most PBS affiliate stations Sunday night. Burns spoke to Newsweek late last month about the project, codirected by Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt. If Burns' interviews reflect the doc’…

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PBS partisans treat Ken Burns as if he was one of America’s finest treasures. In reality, he should be nobody’s idea of a nonpartisan historical filmmaker. He’s a fervent liberal Democrat. On Sunday's Face the Nation, CBS Evening News co-anchor John Dickerson cued him up to defend PBS, and he claimed it's never been left-wing. It used to have William F. Buckley on it! 

From the files of the Media Research Center and NewsBusters, here are a few of the most obnoxious examples of liberal media personalities commandeering commencement ceremonies to inflict their agenda on graduates and their families.

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The Friday primetime lineups of CNN and MSNBC did not handle the news that President Trump signed an executive order forbidding taxpayer money for PBS and NPR well, as they portrayed the news as an assault on everything from democracy, science, the military, farmers, and even the country itself.

Who let this happen on Saturday Night Live? Comedian Shane Gillis uncorked a monologue that mocked Joe Biden's cognitive fitness, liberal moral arrogance, and PBS documentary star Ken Burns as making dreadfully boring films. Plus some of the latest hatred of DOGE.

PBS omnipresence Ken Burns feels so secure in his public-broadcasting empire that he can put his name on fundraising emails for Harris-Walz with no fear anyone will stop paying for and airing his documentaries on PBS. The House held hearings in 1999 over Boston PBS superstation WGBH exchanging email lists with the Democratic Party. This goes even further. Will Congress ask questions about this…

Using a non-political event like a college graduation ceremony to push your views that democracy will end if the candidate you do not like wins, to most people, seems inappropriate, but to MSNBC’s host of The 11th Hour, Stephanie Ruhle on Tuesday, famous PBS documentarian Ken Burns doing just that recently was a cause for celebration.

"Renowned” PBS filmmaker Ken Burns appeared on Tuesday’s CNN This Morning to rain fire on Gov. Ron DeSantis over a bill in the Florida legislature to mandate some boundaries on how taxpayer-funded universities teach American history. In the fevered brain of this PBS star, DeSantis is somehow comparable to both the Nazis and the Soviets. CNN loved this, and didn’t blink at this blatant…

The PBS-branded "American icon" Ken Burns appeared on Wednesday’s Today on NBC to plug his latest book of photographs, Our America: A Photographic History. This 5.75-pound coffee-table book will set you back $75 ($65 at Amazon). At Amazon, you can find the PBS logo hawking several Ken Burns products -- pretty slick for "non-commercial" TV.