Source: Town Hall
by Derek Hunter
“Ken Burns makes some good movies. I don’t call them documentaries anymore because they’re riddled with errors and he doesn’t seem to have any interest in correcting the record, just hammering the checks. ‘Ty Cobb was a racist everyone in baseball hated,’ is the gist of what was said in ‘Baseball,’ but it wasn’t true, as Charles Leerhsen showed in his brilliant, ‘Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty.’ Burns didn’t answer Leerhsen about where he got his false information from, or whether or not he’d tried to actually verify any of the claims he’d made in his film – being Ken Burns means never having to say you’re sorry. This indifference toward truth, not to mention reality, is just one reason the entire PBS/NPR infrastructure is not just unnecessary, but needs to be destroyed.” (02/20/25)