Filmmaker Ric Burns to do warts-and-all documentary on NYT

The Times has opened its archives to Ric Burns for his two-part, four-hour PBS documentary. Burns tells Gabriel Sherman he'll cover the history of the paper from its founding in 1851 to today.

"We’re going to cover the warts and all. For example, you don’t want to look too closely at the reporting the paper did during the Holocaust -- but we will."