Burned Up: Filmmaker Ken Burns, creator of PBS' acclaimed documentary "The Civil War," blasted American TV for offering "nearly the same thing everywhere . . . on dozens of clonelike channels." Burns told the National Press Club in Washington on Monday: "In the worst of our television, we are addicted to personality, to the breathless embrace of celebrity, ensuring as we go a tyranny of the televised over . . . the untelevised."
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