Ken Burns

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. 

Documentarian Ken Burns took his book tour to PBS’s Amanpour and Company on Tuesday where he hysterically warned that “authoritarianism” and “nationalism” are on the rise in America putting everything from elections to the independent judiciary in trouble. With analysis such as that, it should not be surprising Burns was both short on facts and hypocritical when making his assessment…

To promote his new Benjamin Franklin documentary on Wednesday, Ken Burns journeyed over to MSNBC’s The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle where he told the show’s namesake host that he was worried about the future of democracy and then Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine and President Biden reversed those concerns. For her part, Ruhle dismissed the Founding Fathers as white male landowners.…

Fox News media reporter Brian Flood reports PBS superstar filmmaker Ken Burns is swaggering around again and dropping bombs on Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg, suggested he’s an “enemy of the state” who should be in jail. Didn’t liberal hate this kind of “enemy of the people” talk, or is that just about the news media, not the social media?

PBS filmmaker Ken Burns has declared that these are the most fraught times in the history of our republic. Really? Even more fraught than the Civil War that he chronicled?

Since Donald Trump began his run for President in June 2015, parts of the dominant liberal media have repeatedly parroted the incorrect claim that, in 1989, Trump ran a newspaper ad in which he urged the execution of a group of young black and Hispanic teens who ended up eventually being proven "innocent" in spite of confessing to the infamous rape and beating of a Central Park jogger that…