PBS Supports Ken Burns Against Latinos’ Complaints
Tagged: boycott, documentary, Film, pbsPosted on: May 7th, 2007“Public broadcasting executives are defending the right of the filmmaker Ken Burns to tell the history of World War II as he sees fit, in the face of escalating complaints and veiled threats of a boycott from Latinos who say his coming PBS documentary “The War” slights Hispanics’ contributions to the war effort.
At what participants described as an emotional meeting on Thursday in Washington, members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus asked corporate sponsors of the 14 ½-hour film ”” General Motors, Anheuser-Busch and Bank of America ”” for help in putting pressure on Mr. Burns to re-edit the film, which has been finished, to add stories of Latino contributions to the war effort.”
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