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More Fallout from the Car Industry: Ken Burns


by Jerome Weeks 10 Mar 2009 8:20 AM

After 22 years of funding Ken Burns’ Emmy Award-winning PBS documentaries,  General Motors is withdrawing its support. GM began underwriting Burns’ work with The Civil Wars and continued through his newest, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, a six-parter that will air this fall. But the need to cutback during the car company’s current crisis […]

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After 22 years of funding Ken Burns’ Emmy Award-winning PBS documentaries,  General Motors is withdrawing its support. GM began underwriting Burns’ work with The Civil Wars and continued through his newest, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, a six-parter that will air this fall. But the need to cutback during the car company’s current crisis doomed the funding.

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