Re: Ken Burns¢ Vietnam War: An Object Lesson in the Failures of the Objective Lens (fwd)

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 10:50:11 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 > Good critique. Also, I do agree why does he label the interviewees, 
 > especially the Vietnamese,without enough context?

Seems like Ken Burns wanted to wait 'til the final frames to drop the
bombs on who these people were.

 > Like that younger N 
 > Vietnamese guy who was 10 in 1962(it sounds like he's a historian).
 > why did they only have a critique of Jane Fonda in Hanoi? they didn't 
 > mention Chomsky,Zinn & Doug Dowd going, to add context as to why she and 
 > they went.

Good question.  But, I think it was appropriate to play the broadcast
where Jane Fonda was advocating that the POWs be executed.

 > But overall, he did do a good job. We can't have an objective documentary 
 > yet not until everyone who remembers that era is dead.

It is kinda funny that there was hardly a mention of why the United States
was against communism.  I mean, do young people even remember what
Communism is?

 >  > From: FAIR<http://www.fair.org/~fair>
 >  > Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 17:31:20 +0000
 >  > 
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