Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez Debates Ken Burns' Supporter on PBS Newshour

I found this link to last night's debate between University of Texas journalism professor Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez and Ken Burns' spokesmodel Nancy Buirski (of the Durham, NC "Full Frame" documentary festival) on last night's Newshour with Jim Lehrer. They went head-to-head on the question of Ken Burns' anti-Latino bias in his upcoming PBS documentary about World War II. Maybe Buirski wasn't officially representing Ken Burns--but she appeared to be repeating talking points from his people, to this viewer. Here's a photo from Indiwire of Buirski with Michael Moore, giving an award to Ross McElwee, apparently taken at the Full Frame documentary festival: Here's another item about Buirski's Full Frame festival from INDYWEEK:

Indeed, Moore, who attended the 2004 festival, will participate in no less than four events. Along with presenting his Power of Ten choice, Kazuo Hara's World War II atrocity film The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On, Moore will attend a screening of his acclaimed film Roger & Me and a panel discussion involving all the Power of Ten curators, as well as help honor this year's Career Award recipient, filmmaker Ross McElwee (Bright Leaves, Sherman's March, both to be screened this weekend).

Also attending the festival will be infamous publisher and First Amendment crusader Larry Flynt in conjunction with one of the annual Center Frame programs, the world premiere of Larry Flynt: The Right to be Left Alone.

Hmm...(For some unknown reason, the FullFrame.org website appears not to be working right now.)

Round One: Rivas-Rodriguez and Latino WWII veterans.

You can watch the debate online in streaming video, here.