Ken Burns is the establishment’s most noted (and notorious) court documentarian and intellectual bodyguard of the State. For decades his glossy productions have shaped and defended the “official line” or interpretation on the State’s wars, its presidential regimes, or other key historical events, personages, and public policies. As a result they enjoy high esteem and recognition in the mainstream media and court academia. His latest PBS excursion in agitprop is The Vietnam War, a ten part series that has drawn much heated controversy and harsh criticism. Here is a select sample of such commentary and analysis: Ken Burns’s ‘Vietnam War’ is No Profile in Courage: Celebrated filmmaker continues tradition of avoiding inconvenient truths; JFK HAD ORDERED FULL WITHDRAWAL FROM VIETNAM: SOLID EVIDENCE: PBS Vietnam Series: Glossing over JFK’s Exit Strategy; Ken Burns & Lynn Novick, The Vietnam War: Part One; Ken Burns & Lynn Novick, The Vietnam War: Part Two; THE KEN BURNS VIETNAM WAR DOCUMENTARY GLOSSES OVER DEVASTATING CIVILIAN TOLL; Veterans angry, disappointed following PBS’ Vietnam War documentary; The Ken Burns Documentary – A Review; Ken Burns Never Knew How Wrong He Was About the Vietnam War; Ken Burns and Lynn Novick don’t understand anti-Vietnam War protesters; KEN BURNS SAYS THE VIETNAM WAR WAS “BEGUN IN GOOD FAITH.” SO WAS EVERY OTHER LOUSY WAR; KEN BURNS’S VIETNAM: GREAT TV. HORRIBLE HISTORY; and THE LIBERTARIAN ANGLE: THE VIETNAM WAR. 

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