HBO Filmmaker Slams Reagan: His Policies Hurt Those He Sought to Help

Geoffrey Dickens
February 7th, 2011 7:10 PM
Those who admired Ronald Reagan may want to steer clear of tonight's HBO documentary on the former president if that film's director's comments, on Monday's Hardball, are an indication of how slanted the project will be, as he denied many of Reagan's historic accomplishments. From reinvigorating the economy to defeating the Soviet Union, Eugene Jarecki, who also wrote the film, was egged on by…
 

PBS’s Meacham: Why ‘Lionize’ Reagan Who ‘Treated the Poor Poor

Brad Wilmouth
February 6th, 2011 8:08 PM
 On Friday’s Need to Know program on PBS, co-host Jon Meacham - formerly of Newsweek - seemed to agree with filmmaker Eugene Jarecki’s characterization of former President Ronald Reagan as someone who "treated the poor poorly," "broke laws," and "committed nearly impeachable offenses" as he asked the producer of the film Reagan why people should be "lionizing" the former President. The PBS host…