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When he was making the rounds for his World War II documentary in 2007, Ken Burns told me (and other reporters) that he had finally decided to make a film about Vietnam too. Here’s what he said at the time:
Not today, but–there was a point where, with the same vehemence of conviction that I said it after The Civil War, I’d said that
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This afternoon, the digital paywall goes up at the New York Times. The Times’ effort to charge online has begun to be treated like the Helm’s Deep of journalism: a last, best stand by the forces of light against the ravening hordes of aggregation and bankruptcy. (Last week’s 30 Rock, about the decline of writing, was a kind of indirect …
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We’re heading into a TV midseason full of debuts: Game of Thrones, The Borgias, The Killing and Camelot on cable, various replacements including Paul Reiser’s sitcom on the broadcast networks—not to mention specials like Human Planet on Discovery next month. But we still have some business to get out of the way.
Last night, we saw …
