Ken Burns versus the critics (well, “versus” might be a stretch, as might “critics”)

“Perhaps it was his default personality: friendly, gracious, slightly meek, the kind that reminds you Ken Burns chose a career that was part filmmaker, part fundraiser. Or perhaps it was being in a room packed with TV critics who had strewn his path with rose petals of praise these past 17 years, since his documentary “The Civil War” debuted on PBS.

Or maybe it was the fact that almost none of us in the room was Latino.

Whatever the reason, Burns succeeded in deflecting criticism of his upcoming opus, “The War,” where ”” in the original cut sent to critics, at least ”” he had managed to produce 14 hours of film about the men who fought World War II for the United States without including a single significant voice of Hispanic origin.”

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