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. 

My closets are free from clutter from PBS tote bags and Rick Steves DVD box set from donating to fund my local station, or any station associated with the Public Broadcasting System. Most relics of the past I can justify at least the existence of in the context of the time in which they were created – unions, for example, were useful in improving workplace safety in a time when if you were killed on the job thanks to employer negligence or indifference, your family was pretty well screwed before them – but most have outlived their usefulness or failed to adapt with the times (like unions).

But it’s not just that these publicly funded outlets are biased, it’s that they are rotten to their core.

They are the playthings for........

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