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I think Don Henley can be the next vice president of the United States of America. Don has experience as an elected official and is a veteran of the army special services in the Americas. He can write the lyrics to his speeches and he can write the theme songs to his traveling election campaign. He has recent and relevant experience.

You know, some of my friends get angry at NPR’s quotidian promotion of left-wing narratives without pushback or skepticism, such as this morning’s piece on crime by far-left activist Sandhya Dirks. But I, on the contrary, believe that NPR helps the Right. NPR is almost a caricature of a certain type of urban leftist with a big megaphone. Voters and consumers may be as dumb as Dirks and the like implicitly believe, but they know when they are being condescended to, so keep up the segments telling them that issues of violent crime, inflation, illegal immigration, a general public anomie, etc., are the result of their gullibility and imagination, and ‘racist’ as well. In large parts of this country, now, such products of the legacy media help turn swing voters, such as those fabled ‘suburban wimen’, toward pulling the lever for the GOP.

Why isn’t the NYT covering the rape of this middle aged female? Another reason why the media can’t be trusted to report fair, balanced, accurate news.

I CALL BULL**** ON THESE RESULTS!!!!!! No Way it can be true or accurate!!!! The only way voting in AMERICA WILL EVER BE TRUE AND ACCURATE IS BY ASSEMBLY!!!!! EVERY VOTER BALLOTS IN HAND WALKING THRU A COUNTER LIKE AT AIRPORTS OR SIX FLAGS!!!! NO MORE BULL****!!! WE THE PEOPLE ARE SICK AND TIRED OF ALL THE CRAP, BOLD FACE LIES, the INSULT I. OUR INTELLIGENCE!!! ENOUGH!!! WE ARE DONE WITH IT!!!!! TIME TO RISE AND FIGHT FOR WHAT IS RIGHT!!! PERIOD! EVERYONE FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS!!!!

Gayla * B**t 346-***-****

I watched the interview with Judy Woodruff tonight on 60 minutes. I found it interesting. However, having had a bout with thyroid cancer years ago myself, I was concerned about the knot on her neck. Please have her check it out with her Dr. Hopefully, it is nothing to be concerned about.

We are Regular viewers of the program. Very intelligent - often fairly “left leaning” - guest commentators - yet those guest experts responding to a question from start their response. “Yeah, well I mean” or something just as juvenile. Bright people should be able to develop a vocabulary to match their intellect. Can you work with your guests on their vocabulary to reflect the deep topics that they discussing?

Ion is all I get I am in Glendale Ca.

You should call yourselves the Corporation for Propaganda Broadcasting. Could your programming get any more unscrientic misleading and leftist?

You are a national disgrace. De-fund the police? De-fund fake organizations like you. Wouldn't be surprised if the whole board of directors is taking payola directly from the CPP on top of the federal government to spread state sponsored narratives and propaganda. You are traitors to the United States of America and the US Constitution.

Hello.

It is unfortunate that I am forced to write this correspondence today because I usually tell anyone who would listen to me that, PBS literally changed my life as a child.

However, being that I am legally on the ballot and also a publicly touted candidate for the Illinois Secretary of State, and was excluded from the WTTW Chicago candidate forum last week, has changed my life and not in the way it did when I was younger.

WTTW Chicago television station is partially funded by government monies and also from public funds, from honorable people like myself. Your Producers, picking and choosing which candidates will appear on a forum and which ones won't is not in the spirit of being a "open, transparent company" that is supposed to serve the public interest. Clearly, last nights candidate forum you served no one except the two party system.

I have contacted my attorney and we are now in the process pf exploring any legal options we have in response to your stations purposeful oversight.

I hope you and WTTW responds to this email in a way that satisfies my party, the public at large and convinces me to drop legal action.

Respectfully submitted,

Jon Stewart Libertarian Candidate for the Illinois Secretary of State

Cc: IL Libertarian Party, Matteo Rago, Esquire

Please bring back Keeping Up Appearances on MPB; not showing on Direct Tv!!

https://gvwire.com/2021/09/23/hijacked-or-on-course-future-of-fresnos-troubled-public-tv-outlet-questioned/

Hello 

I want to find where to send my new song for the radio. 

I think you’re going to like this groovin tune and the genre is like Funk Rock. I’ve performed it live often, and Strangers point and say “Cheeze Toast” when they see me, months later. True!

It’s broadcast ready and I can send as .mp3 or .wav. and details for the song too. Cheers  Larry

Isn't that slogan more than a little ancient?! I've never liked the inference that it's other viewers who are like me who support the programming, but that I am exempt. Besides, constant repetition of the same trite phrasing simply becomes noise to the viewers. Our public stations need all the support they can muster. I've been a public station member for decades as the promotions seem to remain the same. In addition, I've been an announcer on two different public radio networks.

I neither request nor need a reply from your offices.

I also need to add my voice to my disappointment with the PBS Newshour. I realize that the Wall Street Journal is somewhat right of center, but their news coverage is balanced and they include the more liberal perspectives. I find their coverage to be biased, and driven by the so-called Woke Culture. When I want to watch news, I want balanced information, professional and well thought questions by the newscasters and the avoidance of opinionated information, unless it is an editorial. I am appalled by Judy Woodruff's editorial comments which I find to be unprofessional. I am noticing repetitive questions, more coverage of lived experiences, That can easily be covered elsewhere. I am looking for information and not personal propaganda, for either left or right wing sides. We read the Atlantic, the Economist and I get information analysis from podcasts. I listen to both conservative and liberal perspectives and avoid any podcasts that are parochial. The bar of excellence has slipped tremendously with your coverage, with some notable exceptions such as Amy Walters and David Brooks.

I don't get it. So, as far as I can see, this programming is kind of just pure flattery to us liberals. It's like the programming is some sort of church where we would go for comfort. But I already have priests and psychologists, so I don't need television to help me believe my beliefs. So I don't get it. Why do we fund a station that is simply just my own political party. I mean, I donate to liberals, sure, but they're politicians. I don't see why I should donate to a corporation that just funds NPR, PBS and other outlets which are just the Democratic Party. I mean, the Democratic party serves a purpose, and so I understand that we need it; and I'm glad they help fund my Social Security and Medicare. That's good. But I still don't get it. I mean, so I understand we're not Republicans, but if all your shows are just about my own wish list of ideas, that's nothing very challenging. I'm living the Bay Area, so if I needed 24/7 reinforcement for my belief in Medicaid and Section 8 housing, you're in luck, I already get that 24/7 for free. Plus, here in the liberal capital of the world where I live, BLM and MeToo and LGBTQ Diversity is pumping through all portals 24/7-365 without end; so why do we need to actually give money to get more of what we're already just almost drowning in an ocean of. One's own ideas are like love. Love and my thinking are both good, but 24/7-365 flattery of me is not really needed, and no adult should need that. Your programming throughout COVID and BLM and MeToo and Russia Collusion, etc., was all like children's programming. I get it. I don't like Trump either, and you don't either. I get it. But the broadcasting was so simplistic and so soft and meek and asexual and bland and unchallenging that it was just utterly lifeless. I think our people, and I include you in our people a on the progressive spectrum with us all, are somehow losing our minds and becoming weirdly cringeworthy. It's to where the virtue signaling and constant reassurances and tender handling of our feelings — it's just to the point of cloying beyond madness. I think what you did, as well as all my usual media outlets, was just be such control freaks that you basically sent everyone running for the hills; and now no one trusts you; and I can't even quote your stories to my conservative friends because no one other than woke, coastal, control-freak women believe you anymore. Even my fellow progressive men are all fleeing to the other side, in terms of media. Please stop funding NPR and PBS. I know I won't fund CPB or NPR or PBS anymore, not till some kind of actual human life returns to them.

I like public tv

We LOVE this presentation!! Thank you!!!

I would recommend the Young People’s Chorus of New York City as the backup groups next year. Truly a group representing all ethnicities and hopes of our great country. They have an impeccable reputation and history.

Ron Chronister

There are plenty of other channels for the government to use without taking over normal antenna programming. The news channels can help them be ridiculous all day long. It's cruel, on top of wasting tax payer's money, to block the normal programs from antenna viewers.

1. The magazine shows photos/descriptions for the same program up to 3 or 4 times per issue. Why all the repetition, when it could instead inform readers by showing photos/descriptions of other programs that have no photo-desceiptions? 2. It's annoying to watch a program advertised and listed in the magazine and it turns out to be yet another repeated series. It would be helpful if the magazine indicated which programs are repeats!! 3. Too often, a series starts with episode 2, 3, or 4, etc. This is extremely irritating, and I've stopped thinking I simply missed it in earlier announcements/listings. I hunt endlessly for the earlier episodes and find them only for sale through my Comcast information. 4. I used to have Passport. However, besides being annoyingly difficult to navigate and find something, I watched 7 of 8 episodes of a program only to find episode 8 not there!! I was told when I called about it, that it might have been a mistake, and I could watch episode 8 when it aired a couple of months later. Not satisfactory!!!! So I dropped Passport. 5. I'm donating less and less to TPT because of these issues, and turning finally to Netflix, which is far superior so far, and when it isn't, I'll try Hulu. Sincerely, a dissatisfied TPT viewer, Jane Dugan, Mpls, MN

Isn't it contrary to your existence as a PUBLIC broadcasting service to offer different levels of membership. How is the price of each level determined for a public service.

Every thing except the movie series on pbs is liberal no balanced programing and getrid of judy woodruff shes a real trip.Shes about as liberal as they come.I am not a liberal or conservative but anyone can plainly see its totally liberal.

It's a shame that such a well produced and interesting show as Finding Your Roots is that I will no longer watch it. It is disproportionately represented by guests that are liberal. I'd be fine watching if even a fraction of the guests were middle or right but it's out of hand. And it uses public funds!!

Lastly Louis Gate, who is excellent seems to convince his guests that they and their ancestors have been or are victims. Yet all of his guests are successful to the point of being elite.

Because of the out y balance political social liberal leanings and the portrayal and creation of the victim class, Sadly I'm out and won't watch it.

I don't want one red cent of my taxes going to CPB. My title pretty much sums up the reason except it doesn't mention the failure of your biased outfit omitting the horrible facts and truth about how terribly the Democratic Liberals are ruining the country with their open borders, underlying wealth redistribution policies and insane spending on more inane policies leading to insane inflation. You say they aren't trying to redistribute wealth? I guess then they just want to completely do away with the middle class because that's exactly what they're doing. Biden should be being ripped by the press right now for his inaction on gasoline and all inflation. Instead it's about how Trump is responsible for the repealing of Roe vs. Wade. Honestly the American press and CPB go beyond insulting my intelligence. They repulse me. Defund the CPB not the Police.

Y. Alcindor should not have been made a PBS anchor, according to c*****9@comcast.net. I also Alcindor's verbal tics distracting. She is a good reporter but she should not have been made an anchor at PBS. I wonder what other more qualified candidates were passed over when she was selected.

Background music and sounds blocks out the host on DailyMailTV, news people on WGN. WTH? EVERYDAY!!!!

After listening to npr for forty years I am leaving you. The new announcer on Sunday mornings has a horrible, “screeching” voice, especially when she is the least bit emotional. I’ve tried to get used to it for over a month now, but I can’t. I understand npr has a problem with hiring diverse employees that mirror our very diverse general populations, but must it be someone whose voice is incredibly irritating? Surely you can do better…

I am an agnostic, but I am forced to support religious broadcasting in my cable TV package. This is flat-out unconstitutional!

I am a 30 plus year supporter of PBS and I must say I have become extremely frustrated with Amna Nawaz in specific and the News Hour in general. Ms Nawaz frequently presents extremely liberal biased, moralizing and accusatory pieces with only one interviewee that supports her narrative. PBS now often fails to analyze issues anymore by discussing both sides of a complex and difficult issues like illegal immigration or crime control and instead presents a one sided diatribe against "conservative" actors on the other side of an issue. The news hour has shifted away from the unique and balanced reporting that investigates both sides of an issue and is increasingly coming across as an advocate for specific courses of political action or political solutions. Whereas CPB was always my go to news source to understand what was driving different groups to do what they do, now I view it as an increasingly liberal mouthpiece primarily promoting a liberal agenda. I am fairly liberal but I am more interested in hearing what goes on in the heads of people on the other side of the fence. I have cut back my donations to PBS as I no longer feel like it is an impartial news reporting agency.

Why are all your show left leaning and bias against conservatives? Your complete liberal narrative even in nature shows make most people I know want to vomit. The funny part us we are not burying it.

I am extremely disappointed with the recent shuffle of the three stations in north east Ohio (WCPN, WKSU, WCLV). While I understand there might be an expanded listenership outside of Cleveland, public radio reception in Cleveland is substandard at best. Adding insult to injury, the WKSU call letters are a constant reminder of a college owned small city (pop 30,000) station with poor reception and the abandonment of the urban identity of WCPN.

I am so disappointed at the Bias against Conservatives on your outlets now. I have stopped being a donating members due to your biased programming that is obviously being controlled by Liberals and Democrats. Heart Broken! We have been staunch supporters for many years.

On so many of your PBS programs, the background music drowns out the speaking. I know there's pride in the background music that is provided, but too often it simply is a little too loud. Many of us older viewers get disgusted when we can hear what's being said and can't keep up with the closed captions. I would rather hear the speaker, and it would be a problem if you music was toned down some. Darrell Berkheimer, Grass Valley, Calif.

I have just watched Judy W. interview the Czech foreign minister. Once again, the questions were sub par, bordering on ridiculous. For example, "is NATO doing everything it can?" Please, have other correspondents conduct interviews. Judy can remain as long as she does not conduct interviews. I have made this comment before. What is the plan?

Do not donate to you will never again until you change back to a non biased program I believe your total funding should be pulled all you do is repeat lies spread by the legacy media why should you get public funding for one sided lies that are getting exposed daily time for you to go what a shame in the seventies and early eighties you did fairly good go woke go away you are twice as bigoted as the normal people you lie about

Dave Isey is spot on with this program, and has just reached the tip of the iceberg. Maybe its is time to up the ante, and move it to the ultimate goal of the Senate and the House, and start sitting down a Republic across from a Democrat, and maybe, just maybe they two can both learn from each other about what can be accomplished in this great nation of ours, if, and only if bills can pass in a bipartisan way, can you just imagine, just a thought, probably more difficult getting them together, but maybe in both are in session, it might just work.

Hello, what is the process for a public radio station to change its format? WVIK 90.3 FM plans to change from its current news and classical music format to all news. (It plans to move classical music to a low power frequency, 105.7 FM which I can't get at my house.) How do I submit a public comment about this proposed format change to object as I have financially support the station for many years? Does the station need permission from the CPB or another entity to make such a drastic change? Are listeners and supporters allowed to have a voice in the decision?

Why can't the US news outlets follow up their strenuous, fear-making reports of inflation, with the REASON.... NOT BIDEN, NOT CONGRESS BUT OUR TRYING TO DEFEND UKRAINE from loss of its land, homes and freedom by using our money, resources and power.

Are we so selfish that we can't see that?

I wonder how we relatively well-healed Americans would feel if the roles were reversed!!!!!

Our news needs to temper cause and effect, with compassion....without that, we are not as free, selfless and decent as we think we are.

This program has always been a favorite. Robert Costa brought a level of experience, expertise, clarity in his presentation of topics and interaction with reporters. I love and appreciate Yamiche Alcindor but not for this program. Also I have not been able to access the extra right away as I used to through the pbs website.

Congress just gave CPB another significant increase in its future federal funding, yet there is no public-facing strategy to ensure any of it will reach BIPOC documentary filmmakers who are eager to work in public media. A lot of people who signed on to support bipocmakers.com and publicmediaforall.com are fighting for a post-Ken Burns world. Where can people go to learn more about CPB's plans for its $50M increase?

Dear CPB Ombudsman,

As a liberal Democrat and someone committed to minority rights, I am dismayed at my own annoyance with the IMO heavy programming about minority & underclass issues on Jenn White's A1 radio show which I listen to most mornings. While Ms. White is clearly very talented and does an excellent job, the mega dose of minorities injustices --- altho valid --- just gets tiresome. Maybe it's not the topics themselves, rather either their repetitive, downbeat slant or their overlay on stories in other news channels about the generally depressing state of the country/world. I'm emotionally exhausted.

I'd love to hear some positive stories on other critical issues as well such as the environment, economy, student loan debt, health care costs/access, the pandemic, etc. --- especially ones looking at progress being made, not just grievances and problems.

Thank you for considering my opinion.

Respectfully, Anne Blaisdell

Omg the woman is terrible, can barely form a sentence

I want the major 5 so-called News shows to cover the Ukraine and the President of the US address to America not criticisms of the president This is to important for the So-called news to short circuit the news to the American people. the crap they all shifted to this AM is treason to Democracy!

I am completely disenchanted with PBS based on the amount of fundraising done and on the content of the shows that are used to inflict this nuisance on the public. Many of these shows (health, retirement schemes, rehashes of shows for which I would rather see the show itself, and very biased and one-sided coverage of topics) make me wonder why I still bother to send in a contribution. I am totally done with this and with seeing anything I would like to just "sit down and watch" go to Passport. I wish someone would burn the tapes of Downton Abbey and many of the other series produced in the last 20 years. There have to be great things in the vault, but one would never know. The broadcast material no longer fulfills its need of providing material for an audience with a wide range of interests and the contant whining, carping, and complaining cannot be helping anyone's mental health.

My Google Home Hub stops broadcasting both WBUR and WGBH every hour at about 3 minutes before the hour. Is this something driven by these public stations or is it a shortcoming of the Google Home system? Is there a way I can make an adjustment so that this won't happen?

Dear CPB, sorta Disappointed that you and other media outlets who accused Trump of working with Russia. . . . I'm a Democrat, some of my friends and Conservative, they said we were wrong for going after Trump for two years with no proof, that spying is espionage and that what we did was more serious than Watergate where several people were put in prison and that an apology from, you, CBS, ABC, NBC, etc. should be forth coming, that we the Democrat Party and the Media owe this to America. . . We spied on Donald Trump, an American Citizen and the President of the United States. Did I miss something? I waited for you to apology all day. . ?? The Public Broadcasting Corporation of America, talked about other things that the CPB found negative about Trump, but you never apologized or said anything about spying on the President . . the favor of a reply is requested. . We'd like to know your thoughts. . . Tax money from Americans should not be used to promote one political party or another, just give us the news, when you are wrong we all expect an apology. . . the country needs to heal, you need to do your part. . . .

The News Hour program generally acknowledges prominent persons that have died. Although the BBC acknowledged the death of J P O'Rourke, his death was not mentioned in this program.

I do not understand why this reporter is an anchor. Her speech lacks clarity, is “jittery” and distracts from the information. She fluctuates from trying to control and speaking too slowly, to jarring eye flutters joined by gasps racing mumbled speaking. She is probably best as a writer because elocution lessons fail her and us as the audience! It is disturbing as a viewer. Not trying to hurt her feelings, just really believe she isn’t qualified to speak on air as it isn’t professional discourse.

I do think that Jonathan Capehart brings a needed point of view (though predictably with a liberal bias), BUT HE TALKS TOO MUCH, taking up so much time that he leaves David Brooks squeezed (or so it seems to me). I used to love to watch this segment of the Newshour and now I feel the stress of Capehart being unable (though perhaps trying) to control himself from taking up too much space.

Since you have taken control of the local SoCal stations (KCET, KOCE, KLSC) you have fundraising EVERY WEEKEND. It is obnoxious. As well, you have decreased programming, showing the same things on all three channels. Where I used to be able to see different programming on each of them, more often than not, you get to see a rerun of something that has played on a sister station.

What are you doing with the money you raise? Doesn't seem that it is being used for new programming ( as is being "sold" on the fundraising script...

Really disappointed in public programming since PBS is in charge...

Please, please, please rescue the news hour from its rapid descent into inanity. Woodruff has steadily lurched the news show into irrelevance. She invites uninformed partisan guests, who balance opinions into a meaninglessness. She asks irrelevant questions and sparks a conversation with truism from the other side. The viewers can gather no new insight into the complex problems. I cringe on how far the show has fallen from its newsworthiness height of the MacNeil Lehrer or the Lehrer Hour.

Take a good survey. I think you will find that i do not cry alone about declining health of Woodruff's PBS News Hour.

PBS is a public funded corp. It's funded by ALL the taxpayers, not just the democrats!

Think we'll stop watching, the Fundraising is on constantly, seems like three months non stop. Everyone we talk to feels the same. Will miss PBS

Geogia's Raffensperger; Countering Fake News

The mainstream media (including PBS among other CPB programs) condemns the new voting legislation in Georgia as racist and disenfranchising minorities. It is, in fact, just the opposite. Here are the latest thoughts from Georgia Secretary of State, Republican Brad Raffensperger, who stood strong in 2020 and 2021, facing down Donald Trump's insistence that Georgia find him another 11,800 votes from the 2020 election. Raffensperger alienated Trump by explaining the votes were not there.

In response to the push by President Biden and Chuck Schumer to have the Senate force through the over-reaching Democratic-only supported nationally-controlled voting plan, Raffensperger today (Jan.13, 2022), explained in the Washington Examiner:

"People need to understand in Georgia, we have the appropriate, I think, almost the perfect balance of accessibility," he continued. "Because we have photo ID, we allow you to have all three forms of voting: no-excuse absentee voting, you have to request the ballot, [and] we have signature match and photo ID on that; you show up to vote, we have photo ID for that; you show up on Election Day, we also have that. So we give people lots of opportunity, which has led to record turnout and record registration. I think we've really struck the appropriate balance."

Today, Raffensperger also endorsed launching a new bipartisan presidential commission, similar to 2005's bipartisan Carter-Baker Commission, to make new federal recommendations on the issue and even suggested former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice serve as the Republican co-chair. Currently both Democrats & Republicans recognize that Georgia's new law offers more flexibility to all voters than does Delaware's (Biden's home state), New York's (Schumer's one state), and a number of other states.

CPB should present both sides of controversial issues like this.

We are devoted pbs fans but the fundraising goes on forever to the point that we are increasing unhappy and wondering why we keep watching. What’s up? Is this really necessary?

I am a 77yo retiree, actively follow many news sources, a longtime member of PBS (WTVS Detroit. I have become increasingly disenchanted by the Newshour.Briefly, it now reminds me of why so many people no longer have a daily newspaper delivered. With so many events happening worldwide and everything available almost immediately online, the Newshour seems woefully out of touch. Long segments with two talking heads going on and on ad nauseum. You have a Full Hour to cover a very busy news cycle and I feel it is mostly wasted. In a word - Boring! Whoever is responsible for the model you are using is out of touch. I wait for the BBC news segment which follows my local broadcast. In a half hour I get more news, from a European perspective, than most of what the Newshour delivers. I continue to be a member of PBS, but mainly for the Nature shows, Frontline, etc. I offer these comments with a sincere hope that you will consider what I have said. Thank You.

As a leftist, PBS is actually right wing. The only reporters PBS seems to interview are from Washington Post, which is a fascistic propaganda outlet. Why does your organization find it acceptable to I interview people from an organization that wants elites to have EVEN MORE CONTROL???

I normally listen to the BBC on 88.7 on my way home from work (3:15am). The last 2 nights there has been only static, no programming whatsoever. What happened?

capehart has many good points-but his bias is thickly palpable-David Brooks is a national treasure, IMO. Hopefully, Capehart can benefit from his exposure to the wisdom of Brooks…

I know it’s an opinion segment, but having a progressive like Jonathan Capehart as one of the commentators makes it uninteresting. You know what his opinion is going to be on every issue before he even starts talking, whereas Brooks surprises me a lot of the time with his straddling of the political divide. I felt like Shields shared that same consideration for both sides of the fence and would criticize the left just as easily as the right. Please consider a less-polarized personality if you ever decide to replace him.

Regardless of what NPR program that I happen to turn on, other than Marketplace (and, sometimes even it), every subject, interview, and opinion are left-leaning, and sometimes to an extreme.

Although a liberal bias is nothing new at NPR, I have been listening to NPR for almost forty years and I can honestly say that there is essentially no reporting or interview that supports anything that has a conservative point of view, or does it incorporate an objective discussion with anyone who represents a more conservative position on a subject.

NPMSNBC or CNNPR would be more befitting than NPR, because NPR only takes the side of a portion of the "public".

After the Juan Williams debacle, you would think that NPR would have changed its ways, but sadly, nothing has improved in giving its listeners a truly objective source of information.

The remake of this program is a travesty! I have read Herriots books, and unless his autobiography was a total lie, I think that he would be devastated to see how his story is being told.

She needs to stop lying and fear mongering. This does not help the cause. She’s out of control and sounds hysterical on her broadcasts. We need clear, truthful broadcasting.

I have a question I hope you can help me with. A news station in Alabama has aired a story that I know without a single doubt is a lie, is one sided, and was not checked for accuracy in the slightest. The other party involved is accused of theft of a dog, which is a lie to cover up other facts to avoid the worker at a shelter getting in trouble. The other person has been harassed by strangers, had her daughter who is 12 posted on social media along with their home address by total strangers who were also harassing through messenger (Facebook) and she had animal control called to investigate her animals, and was also harassed and threatened bby police officers (2 that I know of) all because she went to the shelter got the dog and took it to the vet. She DID lie to get the dog by claiming it as hers because in order to get it out of the shelter, she needed to claim it because it was on a stray hold. The dog is 14 years old and the vet said it was severely mistreated through neglect, they removed teeth that were necrotic, a sebaceous mass on the dogs back, and gave the person meds to treat a skin infection and also staph. When the dog was treated, she picked it up from the vet and was home for a few minutes before the human shelter called her and started threatening her. She went there to speak with the people and she admitted to the lie and she apologized. She told them she would give the dog back but didn''t bring it with her because it was just out of surgery and she had 5 children with her. AT that point her boyfriend was threatened because he had outstanding tickets and she was told he would go to jail. She was told they would arrest her for taking the dog because it was a felony, which it is NOT. The dog would need to be worth over $250 for a felony charge and I don't know a single person in their right mind who would pay that for a neglected 14 year old dog that was rotting from the inside out. The channel ABC 33/40 aired a supposed ' FEEL GOOD CHRISTMAS' story detailing how the owner who was responsible for the original pathetic condition of the animal got the dog back after it had been "missing" for 12 days. We don't know how long the shelter had the dog but I do know that they are lying about everything, right down to the fact that she gave them paperwork saying the dog belonged to her (Obviously she couldn't do that if the dog DIDN't belong to her, which she'd already said.) The "journalist" did not attempt to contact the person to get the other side of the story or to check facts. Now this young girl is STILL having her information posted on social media along with the pictures of her children. I am drafting a letter to send the Cynthia Gould, who is responsible for the story, explaining this to her and telling her to retract the story because I am absolutely fully prepared to sue on behalf of the girl in the middle of this gang of old ladies. I am also including the caveat that she is more than welcome to re-publish the story when she has all her facts. I am well aware that the 1st gives permission to report the news, it does not however give any news station the right to publish or prepetuate false information or to defame another individual. Is there anything else that I should include befor sending the communication? I would appreciate your help and I certainly appreciate the mission CPD.

There was a short segment on St. Nicholas on Ch. 25 in New York @7am today. It came on after the broadcast of the exercise show Sit and Be Fit and I found it objectionable as a Catholic. In trying to separate the history of the (Turkish) Bishop St. Nicholas from the commercial Santa Claus it was disrespectful in portraying him as a tyrant. And when discussing how Amercans perceive him, it stated "America was too late for the whole saint thing." The graphics were also derogatory. Please stop attacking Christianity. Thank you.

Why is PBS/NPR paying BBC? Why did BBC have Alan Dershowitz on commenting on conviction of Ghislaine Max (https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-59828961)? Not even Sky (no) News had Dershowitz on, but BBC did! Why the Corp. for Public paying BBC (https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jan/19/bbc-strikes-deal-with-pbs-to-create-factual-programmes)?

I posted the above to kera.org at its contact/feedback page.

Regards, Aram Azadpour Grapevine, TX

We are very attached to a number of your weekly programs. What we can't understand is why, when you are doing your semi-annual fund drives, you take the programs we look forward to off the air and put paid infomercials on worthless, uninteresting subjects like dieting, health, and finances that go on forever! All it does is turn us off to yourfundraising and we go elsewhere until the fund raising is over.

Judy Woodruff is one of the most talented and intelligent interviewers in the television world. She is deliberate, balanced and fair at all times and with all guests appearing on The News Hour. Unlike many in the news business, she is also non- ideological.

As a regular listener to PBS News Hour, I appreciate your comprehensive and unbiased coverage of the climate crisis. My concern is that having partial sponsorship by BNSF Railroad might be a conflict of interest as they are one of the biggest transporters of fossil fuels in the US. While I understand that financial support of PBS is important, I think that there is also a priority to be true to ones message.

Again,I appreciate your commitment to the presentation of quality and consequential news each night. I encourage your conversation on this important topic.

Sincerely, Daniel Price

The second largest cost of BBB is the DALT provision. PBS Newshour appears to intentionally avoid talking about SALT to sell the bill to the public. PBS can’t use public money to advance socialist agenda. There are to many critical thinkers and please stop insulting our intelligence.

When I was young, shows on PBS were free. Now, in order to watch most of your programming, I must pay a couple hundred dollars per year to become a member. So in effect, you have become a very expensive pay channel. Why the change in policy?

Why is EASTENDERS being cancelled, on December 11,2021,in the United States.?

November 2021 To whom it may concern, I am so sad that Eastenders will no longer be airing on PBS/TPT Channel 2. I stared watching in 1985 and have been ever since. I was 17 at the time and helped to fill a void in my life, that was 36 years ago. As I got older I supported Eastenders monetarily when I was able to do so. I know it is just a TV show, but the characters and re-ocurring cast members have been like 'family' and in a sense some of them I have grown up with, mourned the death of characters both on the show in real life ....and been joyful with their accpmlishments too. All good things come to end I guess, and this is just another one of those things in life that is ending. I will truly miss the story....and to all the actors and characters of Eastenders that have been so much a part of my life for so long, I wish you all well in the rest of your journeys, sadly I will not be able to follow yours....... Sincerely Lynn (Blomster) Schultz

The results of the election in Virginia and President Biden's sinking poll numbers are indicators of what the electorate not only feel about the Biden agenda, but the whole campaign in the media to cancel any alternative perspectives on the important issues facing voters. People want The McNeil Lehrer Newshour brought back. I fondly remember The PBS Newshour with McNeil/Lehrer. The best part of the program were the lively debates moderated by both of the two hosts, as well as Judy Woodruff herself. Sadly, Judy does not seem to have been positively influenced, as evidenced by the one sided biased reporting dominating the program 99.9%. Woodruff stifles debate and seems to have an anti Male agenda. Is she allergic to heterosexual males, sure seems that way to me. I guess woodruff does not believe men count for much anymore in the so called "me too" generation, AKA a Blood Libel.

There is no reforming this bunch. I object to any public funds going to this program, with all due respect.

WM, RN

Hello,

I’m wondering if the CPB is aware of what’s happening to the Valley PBS station in Central California. It appears to have been taken over by local conservative business interests and has been producing programming that looks increasingly like corporate agribusiness infomercials.

The current CEO (an openly politically partisan figure on social media) owns the production company the station pays to produce these programs, and they were underwritten by an agribusiness lobbyist who also sits on the station’s board.

It was reported today that vacancies on the board were filled with five more conservative businesspeople. Is there anything the CPB can do to prevent a takeover like this by commercial interests?

Gary Abernathy is the antithesis of David Brooks. Please, bring in Gerson to fill in for Brooks. There was no PBS civility in the Capehart/Abernathy exchange. Big disappointment.

I love the CPB jobline. I use it all the time. I have a full-time job that I love and don't plan on leaving soon, but it's interesting to see what's out there. But I hate that most companies don't list actual salaries. It's a big waste of time to apply for jobs that you end up not being able to take because of the low salary. It's also about transparency. Please start requiring companies to at least list a salary range.

I've been a listener of KPBS since the late 90's. I've appreciated the programming and even agreed with the 'liberal bias,' and when I didn't, I thought that at least KPBS tried to present both sides. I'm no longer of that opinion. After the Trump presidency something happened to the reporting, it started becoming more partisan. To a degree, I think it was a natural reaction to Trump's presidency. But then the George Floyd murder came and KPBS broke. It's reporting fully adopted what Wesley Yang dubbed the "successor ideology." In other words, KPBS went full "woke" and started incessantly analysing everything through identity. At this point, when it comes to any topics related to identity politics, I consider KPBS a biased promoter of this ideology. While even a few years ago I would have been a fierce defender of this news station, I would now support eliminating public funding for it alltogether, as it no longer tries to provide unbiased news. A public news station should be providing facts not pushing an ideological agenda, by selectively reporting only certain view points. It should especially not be pushing an agenda that pits different groups of Americans against one another or vilifies large groups of people based on this skin color, sex or EVEN political affiliation. I don't think I can ever forgive you. Nothing short of multiple apologies to the American people would suffice. And a return to reporting that respects all groups of the American people.

And I will save you the trouble: Note from CPB: Thank you for contacting the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). CPB and PBS are separate and independent organizations.CPB is prohibited from interfering with editorial or programming decisions. Please contact PBS directly at http://www.pbs.org/about/faq/contact-us/.

I’m 49 , life long listener Middle class white American. I’m a news hound. Multiple sources. Its become completely obvious that WSHU is very bios and completely blue. I’m neither red nor blue. Shame on WSHU in particular. I still trust NPR.

Why is PBS (or CPB) not negotiating for the continued airing of the British Series, “Eastenders” on WLIW PBS TV, as it has done so for at least 20 + years? Don’t you owe a bit more of an explanation to your loyal views/donors? This program has aired for decades in American and at least 12 or more years longer in England - as the British are way ahead of us in taping and the airing of the Eastenders series.

We are shocked that WLIW PBS TV suddenly notified us (on Oct. 12, 2021) at the end of this past week’s Eastenders that they are dropping the program and the last episode will be airing on Nov 18, 2021. This was WLIW’s written statement, which was snuck in at the end of the program: “Unfortunately, BBC Studios, the show's distributor, can no longer make EastEnders available in the U.S. TPT's last available episode will air on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021. Thank you to the many TPT Members who have specifically helped make this program possible to so many fans in our community.”

That was shocking! Why can’t BBC Studios suddenly make EastEnders available in the US? There is no explanation as to why BBC Studios has done this? Is it a money issue? If so, why not share the reason with the viewers? There are many loyal fans of the show in the US that have watched Eastenders for decades and it is like the rug has been pulled out from underneath us. Why have they not even given their viewers/donors a better understanding as to the reasons they can not negotiate a deal with BBC Studios? Isn’t there anything WLIW loyal viewers / donors can do, as a group – if PBS asks for our help?

In the past, EastEnders was almost pulled the show, but they were straight with their viewers, so the viewers donated the needed money and the programing continued. What can we do to stop this from happening once again? It’s not like the creators of Eastenders discontinued creating the show, they are way ahead of us with previously created episodes in the UK. We have friends in England who watch EastEnders several times a week and there is no talk there about pulling the show. This seems very unfair to us in the USA. My husband and I have been watching Eastenders for over 20 years. I realize it is only a soap opera, but we are rather “addicted” to the show, the characters, and the exciting story lines. It seems rather mean spirited and thoughtless to do this to your viewers/donors when we have been long time viewers and supporters of Eastenders and PBS.

What can we do to reverse this decision?? Please be straight with us as to why suddenly the BBC Studies (the show’s distributor) can no longer make Eastenders available to the US. Is it a political discrepancy or financial, are they understaffed and can not do it any longer? Surely with some diplomacy or money, the issue may be resolved. Please give us more than a thank you and goodbye!

Sincerely,

Patricia Mattone and Frank Pedagno

SHE ASKS SOFTBALL QUESTIONS AND HAS NO BUSINESS BEING THE MAIN NEWS READER ALL SHE SEEMS TO DO IS LOAD PBS NEWS WITH YOUNG WOMEN WHO ARE NOT EXPERIENCED and pander to them

Hi,

I have an employer account that I use to post jobs. For the past week or so, whenever I try to log in, I get an error saying "access denied". Can you please help? My employer email is mmasood@whyy.org. Thanks!

If P stands for Public why are the vast majority of PBS producers and their content liberal?

Cutting out the last moments of this broadcast was a breach of trust between PBS and the public which funds the network. The live broadcast was a deeply meaningful experience for many of us who needed the solace of the Requiem to acknowledge our grief on the national day of mourning. The insensitivity of cutting off the performance before the climax was appalling. I urge you to issue a public apology for this terrible error, and re-broadcast the performance free of charge to the affiliates for several weeks. I assume that you have heard from many corporate sponsors who are unhappy about this insensitive episode, and I can assure you that I will re-consider my support for PBS unless there is a public apology to both the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and those of us who were very offended by the abrupt and callous ending to a most meaningful spiritual performance in memoriam for the terrible loss of life on September 11, 2001. Sincerely, Kathleen Atkinson Nahant, Massachusetts

I continue to find Yamiche Alcindor a very annoying presence on PBS. I do not doubt her credentials or the depth of her information and coverage, BUT I CANNOT LISTEN TO HER... She simply TALKS TOO FAST... SHE DOES NOT TAKE A BREATH. She seems like a nervous accomplished student who cannot spill out her information fast enough. She really stands out against all the other reporters as a negative and often prompts me to change the channel. I'm baffled why you continue to engage her as I don't believe my response is an unusual one.

I just read this article titled "Idaho's Hospitals Are Overwhelmed, But Many Locals Remain Skeptical Of Vaccines" posted on NPR early this morning, September 12, 2021. It doesn't have the name of the author listed. It credits the story being produced by the Mountain West Bureau. It doesn't have anything about where they got this information. It doesn't have anything about quotes from where they got this information and numbers and data. I talked to a hospital this morning and they denied their ICU beds were 100% full. They said that their hospital beds have not been full since the beginning of the pandemic. The research I've done for my piece, I've found conclusively different facts. There is only one truth. 

I'm calling from Huntsville, Alabama. I'm listening to your station in Tuscaloosa. You are playing my favorite Beethoven piece and I'm loving it! Thank you so much. 

On the Newshour they had Amy Walter on. She was referring to the image from Charlottesville as if that was the summation of all people think of when thinking of him. Why does she continue to repeat a lie? Even someone as slimy as Jake Tapper indicated that it was just a lie. If you look at the context of what he said, he never said the Nazis were good people. That's clearly just a false narrative that the left continues to lie about. That's clearly a false narrative that the left continues to lie about and even Jake Tapper can't stand the fact that his colleagues continue to repeat something that isn't true over and over. I don't know how you live with yourself, you're intelligent people. 

I was wondering why Judy never mentioned variants of Lambda, variants sweeping through South America. It seems like totally incomplete reporting. 

What is wrong with the sound on our tv

We are great fans of Washington Week. But we find it very hard to listen to Yamiche Alcindor, not because of what she says but how she says it. She seems to mumble and misspeak and her speech problems interfere with the delivery of her message. PLEASE give her a speech coach. She needs help. Maybe she is a stutterer.

To whom it may concern: I have been a fan of PBS for more Han the 30 plus years that my dear Mother was watching Julia Child. I had become a teacher and told so many about it and the wonderful programs available "back in the dark ages". When I did Vol Work at McCRter Theater in Princeton I did the same. I tell you this only because I still only watch you and the daily news. The big however. you are now too complicated for me to navigate and get in touch with,sad to say. I live in Ewing Twp, N.J. and I did call from time to time but that again what happened? The number is gone and no was answering recently when it was available. I even had my daughter (who now lives in Cambridge,Ma. doing vol work while growing up and at home Would be pleased to hear from you. Eileen D

How bout having a conservative viewpoint since your liberal biased news is taxpayer funded. David is a flaming liberal. Sad. Please provide balance. You do not. Cape hart and Brooks are only giving the liberal media perspective and spins left and does not ask any hard questions. Sad. No press inquisitiveness, just spew liberal blather. Please hire someone that represents the other 50% of America. McNeil and Leyer are vomiting Woodruff and Brooks in projectile fashion.

Please please please give radio host Linda Carducci another time segment and not the morning slot when I love to listen in. As the mother of a special needs young adult son, her condescending voice is obnoxious, patronizing, and doesn't sound unlike some of the many inclusion teachers my son has had over the years. From Wagner to Beethoven I cringe at her introduction and wait for the day she will extol "Good Job!" after one of her selections. PS: Carducci plays too many waltzes -- no wonder young people feel so disconnected from "white" classical music and no wonder I have to turn off WETA until 10AM when, mercifully, Carducci, vanishes from the air waves.

I watch the newshour most nights and respect the coverage. I was very disappointed at the biased reporting on Afghanistan, particularly from the woman reporting from the country. It was irrational, with little value except the emotional aftermath of a weak government collapsing. I expect reporting that looks at more than one perspective on the issue!

My wife and I have enjoyed watching The Lawrence Welk Show reruns on Saturday night on our local PBS station, WCVE, Richmond, VA. Without warning, they dropped LW from the schedule. Is it ever coming back? Thank you.

Im tired of having to pay to watch PBS at all and then my local shows or just crap and the shows that I want to watch I have to pay a separate fee and join a club it used to be perfect that on the weekends it was as time goes by follow up with some other British comedies and now they're gone and it's just one-sided political crap mostly against Republicans

wow sometimes the same program is on two stations at the same time reruns are great , some times even in the same week but not 3 times a week do much crap, the ridiculous “dr” Amen. whats next voodoo pracrice. commercials are understandable, but dont the Koch bros already make money without USING public tv. its what used to be like an unbiased gift to all but now youve just sold your soul

I am SO disappointed advertising has come to public television. How can these companies say they are contributors/benefactors when we are forced to watch their advertising. Not OK.

I doubt seriously that negative comments about PBS programming and/or its purported bias are submitted by regular viewers, but rather are submitted as part of a campaign to defund public broadcasting waged by political factions that live in a “post reality” world in which ideology trumps, so to speak, a genuine concern for a reliable picture of the world as it is instead of how they have been led to believe it should be. What these commentators have in common is an unwillingness to accept that political reality is under no obligation to be either reassuring or pleasant. In my judgment, based on four decades of teaching and researching mass media, public broadcasting (whether television or radio) is to a democracy as a clean water and good air quality are to a healthy community.

It is long past time to defund NPR. It has had a biased, liberal agenda for years and now outright states such beliefs opening by holding the Declaration of Independence in derision, and at taxpayer expense.

I like Stephanie Sy and the article she did on homelessness.

This program used to be my favorite feature Friday evening. Capehart is such a mouthpiece for Biden and Kamala Harris and so strident in the Democrat propaganda that I have elected to turn off the program when it appears on Friday evening. Mark Shields or is remarkable in his broad perspective on politics. Capehart is just a Democrat who loves to spin the spending siren song.. I am so sorry that he was chosen to be the spokesperson on your Friday evening feature. Thank you, Fred Winston

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OIG and Board of Directors CPB, I am a 79 year old grandfather……My wife and I, like you and the rest of the Country, are very concerned about Facebook.

There is increasing attention and frustration regarding the negative and even destructive, aspects of this problematic social media platform but few viable ideas to “clean up” the problems.

How about considering a unique approach that doesn’t threaten First Amendment free speech rights and gives people a choice??

I am asking you to consider legislation that would create the possibility of a Public Option Social Media Platform. A nonprofit platform that would offer all of the wonderful original family and friend communication options that are not problematic. There would be no advertising, no personal data collection and no ability to disseminate dangerous false news sources.

Conveniently, the vehicle for this concept already exists. As you know, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a private, nonprofit entity that was created and funded by Congress in 1967. CPB’s mission is to ensure universal access, over-the-air and online, to high-quality content and telecommunications services that are commercial free and free of charge.

Just as National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) were originally designed as public options to commercial radio and television, so would this Public Social Media (PSM) option be available to those who choose to enroll. We can all remember how we, as young parents, chose Sesame Street for our children because it was available as an alternative to commercial TV programs. Why can’t today’s families have an alternative to Facebook?

There would certainly be many challenges to the development of an appropriate Public Option Social Media Platform but it sure looks like the time has come for serious consideration.

On the back is a letter, with more detail, that was never published.

Am I too naive or is this a viable option? Is it possible that we as Americans have a possible legislative solution that would allow us to have the choice to select an appropriate social media platform??

Thank you for taking the time to consider a proud grandfather’s quest for a better future for my granddaughters!

Michael Rolnick Farmington Hills, Michigan 48331 248-763-2916

The next material was attached but Rolnick said he has not sent to NYTIMES New York Times To The Editor: Revelations concerning widespread abuse by many commercially available social media platforms are deeply troubling. These huge platforms have become purveyors of false advertising, both political and commercial, have participated in providing insidious foreign influence and become vehicles for rampant cyber-bullying. Public trust has been violated in numerous ways, including the sale of private information, presumed confidential, the reliance on a lack of user understanding regarding privacy settings and a lack of legislative and self-regulation in the industry. We have all observed a failure to monitor policy and practice until finally compelled by public and political pressures. Most alarming is the willful use of the First Amendment as a shield to ignore or avoid actions that will eliminate abuse and regain public trust with ethical behavior.

There is an approach that would effectively address many of the aforementioned unacceptable realities.That approach would be a Public Option Social Media Platform. A non-profit platform that would offer all of the original family and friend communication options that are not problematic. There would be no advertising and no ability to disseminate false, dangerous or destructive news sources.

Conveniently, the vehicle for this concept already exists. According to its published goals and objectives, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a private, nonprofit corporation created and funded by Congress in 1967. CPB's mission is to ensure universal access, over-the-air and online, to high-quality content and telecommunications services that are commercial free and free of charge. serve.

Just as National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) were originally designed as publjc options to commercial radio and television, so would this Public Social Media (PSM) option be available to those who choose to enroll.

It should be emphasized that this public option, as part of the Corporation For Public Broadcasting, like the proposals for a health care public insurance option, would be a choice to be made by each individual and would in no way be mandatory. In fact, there would be many who would want more than such a public option might offer and choose the commercial options that presently exist. It is also possible that enough individuals would support the public option so that market place forces could generate positive changes in the commercial environment.

There would certainly be many challenges to the development of an appropriate Public Option Social Media Platform but perhaps the time has come in this country for serious consideration.

Michael Rolnick

None of the programming CPB supports interests or benefits me. Why do I have to pay for it? You should transition to an advertisement supported platform instead of using money that could be better used for the betterment of all taxpayers.

I appeal to Yamiche Alcindor to stop beginning her questioning of each week’s guests by saying to them that she is going to “turn to you, so-and-so. Talk to me a little bit about ….” It’s a verbal tic that is both annoyingly repetitive and uses many more words than needed to accomplish the same objectives.

It is much more important for public media to get defunded than the police. Over the past five years public media has done a nosedive away from positive, culturally improving content, to slimy, bottom of your shoe, dregs of 'I'm offended' devisive content. This shouldn't be rewarded with grants and high paychecks. These 'writers' are a disease.

Hello, I appreciate all y'all do for the PBS/NPR stations, I love all the programming y'all have, they're very inspirational to me, thank y'all for everything

Dear CPB,

I like your shows and your web sites. Hope you're doing well.

Sincerely, Harrison

Your news sucks. It is far from objective journalism. I used to love your programming and write my senator often to convey my support for your funding. That will now stop as I am tired of my tax dollars going to a blatantly obvious partisan form of journalism. You have turned into the opinion column. Thanks but no thanks. Get your operating funding from Nancy and Chuck's super pacs and quit stealing my money to indoctrinate my child to your liberal fantasies. Good bye

Do you believe in unbiased reporting , both black and white, this country needs healing, on both sides.

Judy asked a question to the CA Democratic Senator using the term "marginally qualified voter" which even a Republican would not use. A voter is either qualified to vote based on an evaluation of their registration application or not. There is nothing marginal except in the eye of a racist who wants someone based on their heritage to have difficulty registering for, and casting a ballot. The Republican states are passing laws that would allow politically appointed boards to throw out ballots as Trump requested for the 2020 election. Federal oversight is necessary. Terry Kelley Jacksonville

The anodyne and yet self-satisfied comments of Judy Woodruff are about to drive me away from watching the PBS NewsHour. I agree with those who say she must retire. Yamiche Alcindor must practice to slow down and catch her breath. So sad that listening to the NewsHour is getting to be an irritating experience. I like the content.

I have noticed over the last three years that "words from out sponsors" (which I translate as "commercials") have increased to degree that is very irritating, distracting. I send in donations to my local NPR station KPCC twice a year to make sure programming continues for the "public," not commercial interests. With more commercials on all the NPR programs I Iisten to I am concerned that business interests will influence programming. The public deserves better. Was not the creation of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to provide commercial free broadcasting to the public or has that been sidetracked? Please ensure that all public broadcasting is focused on the public.

Thank you for your time, attention, funding, and overseeing public broadcasting.

P.S. I was not able to find a way to contact the Ombudsman.

Now seems the right time for the networks of PBS and NPR to remove the constant on-air begging from members to fund programming and ask our new President and Congress to include all funding in his newly proposed 2021 congressional bill to fund national infrastructure, now known as "The Americans Jobs Plan", Please have the member stations go into lobby overdrive. If $1.35 for each citizen, can fund 25% of the CPB budget, then $5.40 per year for each citizen, will completely fund all operations and we can get rid of those on-air public begging, as well as corporate commercials that have crept into the programming lineups. Of course many of those supporting corporations want something in return. It has now become to also share their purpose and what they do. Previously, the names of the donor corporations would suffice. $1.8 billion in Federal funding per year, would support it all. It's a huge difference from what UK residents are said to contribute: Over $400 per TV set is is charged per year for each UK citizen to support the BBC.

I want to know why the programs Daniel Tiger and Donkey Hodie seem to be a little less educational and a little more “commercial cartoon-y”. I find myself streaming old programs on PBS Kids instead of live TV.

Dear Ms. Woodruff,

On last Tuesday’s PBS Newshour (27 April 2021) News Wrap, you reported that a report critical of Israel had been prepared by Human Rights Watch (HRW), a “leading human rights group”. If only.

HRW is anything but a “leading human rights group”. Their most recent report is only one in a long line of reports regarding Israel that is based on distortions, half-truths, and out-and-out lies. So much so that in 2009, Robert Bernstein criticized HRW, the very organization that he himself founded, due to its anti-Israel fanaticism.(1)

Think about that for a second. The founder of an NGO feels compelled to publish an Op-Ed in the New York Times no less criticizing the organization he founded as they have lost their way when it came to covering Israel. That should be enough right there to not even report on anything that HRW publishes regarding Israel.

This recent HRW report does it best to unjustly attack, undermine, and demonize Israel. Not surprisingly, there is not even an attempt at balance. Nowhere in this 216-page report is there mention of any Palestinian terror attacks or suicide bombings. Without context, for instance one cannot even begin to debate Israel’s Security barrier without acknowledging its origins.

Furthermore, the “apartheid” report is authored by Omar Shakir, a known anti-Israel, pro-BDS activist. Shockingly he did no actual fact checking or investigating for his report. He simply relied on other anti-Israel NGOs to do his dirty work, so the outcome was baked before he typed his first word. Mr. Shakir likely has an ax to grind as he was forced to leave Israel due to his subversive anti-Israel activities that violated Israeli law.(2)

CAMERA has done an excellent job debunking the baseless HRW charges in this report - of water theft & discrimination, explaining Israeli’s Law of Return, and the supposed seizure of Arab lands.(3) Other organizations have exposed the fundamental flaws in this latest HRW publication as well.(4)

The report has been criticized by major media outlets as being one-sided and even disavowed by the current US administration.(5) Consequently HRW has now pivoted to say they are not actually comparing Israel to South Africa, but instead just giving apartheid a new definition.

But just wait, next week they will have a new way to slander Israel. I would hope the PBS Newshour has a more nuanced coverage on HRW by then.

Regards, ER Seidman Richmond, VA

1) https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/opinion/20bernstein.html 2) https://honestreporting.com/media-fail-to-ask-tough-questions-after-preposterous-hrw-claim-about-israeli-apartheid/ 3) https://www.camera.org/article/human-rights-watch-report-maligns-israel-with-lies-on-top-of-lies/ 4) https://www.ngo-monitor.org/reports/hrws-apartheid-demonization-bds-lawfare/ 5) https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-rejects-human-rights-watchs-accusation-of-israeli-apartheid/

I used to listen to NPR all the time while driving. I am on the highway a lot. The last week I have been keeping up with your programming and every story or at least every other story is about racial injustice, injustice toward Illegal immigrants, injustice concerning LBGTQ, basically identity politics. Even if it is a legitimate news story NPR is going insinuate how it has something to do with race, etc. even if it has nothing to do with race. It's absolutely absurd. I used to wake up to Steve Innskeep for probably 20 years. Yes, he was always left leaning but not obnoxiously so. I enjoyed his show. But everything changed with Trumps election. I had to quit listening. And I would not listen to anything Steve Innskeep has anything to do with for 2 seconds now. I decided last week that I am tired of all your totally biased broadcasting and I will not be listening anymore. You guys have messed up a really national treasure. You are just rubber stamping the liberal left in this country. And that is not what made this country great. Either move back to somewhere near the center and do some interesting and informative stories and reporting or just quit. I will not be listening until you do.

Time for her to retire and pass the baton to younger generation

Paula Kerger, President and CEO Jonathan Barzilay, COO Sylvia Bugg, Chief Programming Executive Judy Woodruff, Managing Editor, PBS Evening News Hour Ricardo Sandoval-Palos, PBS Public Editor Public Broadcasting System May 29, 2021

re: Colin Powell's participation in PBS Memorial Day concerts

Dear PBS Executives::

This email is to comment on PBS's choice of Colin Powell, who is a war criminal, for involvement in PBS's National Memorial Day Concert May 30, 2021, and in these concerts in prior and likely future years.

Gen. Powell publicly and knowingly lied to the United Nations Security Council on Feb. 5, 2003, about evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction in a key moment initiating the Iraq war, lied 244 times about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and 10 times about Iraq's links to Al Qaeda (1), providing a false basis for US initiation of this catastrophic war. He also participated in review and micromanagement of torture techniques, in dozens of White House meetings as part of the Bush Principals Group along with Condoleezza Rice, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, George Tenet and John Ashcroft (2), war criminals all, with the knowledge and approval of George W. Bush (3), who has been convicted of war crimes in absentia (4). Powell's lies, and George Bush's 935 documented Iraq war lies (1), directly set the stage for the 30000+ lies and crime-ridden presidency of Donald Trump.

With Gen. Powell's critical early support and lies, the Iraq war unnecessarily took the lives of up to 1 million Iraqis (5-6), and over 4500 US servicemen in a war that wasted well over $3 trillion entirely added to the national debt (7). His front-end review of torture techniques as part of the Bush Principals Group (2-3), contributed directly to the Bush administration's practice of systematic (8-14) torture (15-22). Mohamed El Baradei has suggested a war crimes probe of the Bush team (23). Since systematic torture is a crime against humanity (24), Gen. Powell, the rest of the Bush Principals Group, and especially Bush and Cheney have committed crimes against humanity. Although later repentant, the large number of Iraqis who were tortured and killed in part courtesy of Gen. Powell cannot be brought back to life. There has been no accountability for any of these war criminals; these war crimes provide the substance for the widespread and constant hypocrisy of American politicians accusing other countries of war crimes, such as Barack Obama (who protected these war criminals from prosecution), John Kerry as Secretary of State and most recently Nancy Pelosi.

The PBS management decision to honor Gen. Powell in this way devastates PBS's reputation for quality journalism, instead revealing a political correctness so severe that you will stoop to including a war criminal as an honored participant in this celebration. This decision also devastates the generally high quality reporting of your staff by very much making PBS look like it values political correctness above all moral and factual arguments, and is not only an insult to all US citizens, to black citizens that are the focus of your intense advocacy/reporting for social justice, to General Powell's only slightly indirect torture victims, and to all of the US servicemen and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who died in this criminal war. Could you not find a genuinely distinguished black citizen to honor instead of a war criminal??? Henry Louis Gates? Karen Bass? Lloyd Austin? Kamala Harris? Andrew Young? James Clyburn? or another of many other choices.

D. Anderson Ph.D. Pagosa Springs, CO 81147

1. Charles Lewis, Mark Reading-Smith. “False Pretenses. Following 9/11, President Bush and seven top officials of his administration waged a carefully orchestrated campaign of misinformation about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq.” The Center for Public Integrity, Jan. 23, 2008. This article discusses 935 documented lies/distortions by Bush and his top officials, including Colin Powell. 2. Jan Crawford Greenburg, Howard L. Rosenberg, Ariane de Vogue. “Sources: Top Bush Advisors Approved 'Enhanced Interrogation'.” ABC News, April 9, 2008. 3. Jan Crawford Greenburg, Howard L. Rosenberg, Ariane de Vogue. “Bush Aware of Advisers' Interrogation Talks. President Says He Knew His Senior Advisers Discussed Tough Interrogation Methods.” ABC News, April 11, 2008. 4. Yvonne Ridley. “Bush convicted of war crimes in absentia.” Foreign Policy Journal, May 12, 2012. 5. Burnham, G. et al., “Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: a cross-sectional cluster sample survey.” The Lancet, Oct 11, 2006. 6. Opinion Research Business [London, reported by Reuters Jan 30, 2008] survey of Iraq War casualties as of Aug 19, 2007. 7. Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes. “The true cost of the Iraq war: $3 trillion and beyond.” Washington Post, Sept. 5, 2010. Prof. Stiglitz is the 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics; Linda Bilmes is a Professor at Harvard University. 8. Larry Siems. “The Torture Report.”, O/R Books, Feb. 15, 2012. 9. Matt Spetalnick, Jane Sutton. “U.S. condoned torture after 9/11, must close Guantanamo: report.“ Yahoo News, Reuters and The Constitution Project, April 16, 2013. Concerning the 577-page report: “An independent task force issued a damning review of Bush-era interrogation practices on Tuesday, saying the highest U.S. officials bore ultimate responsibility for the "indisputable" use of torture.” “...the panel concluded that never before had there been "the kind of considered and detailed discussions that occurred after 9/11 directly involving a president and his top advisers on the wisdom, propriety and legality of inflicting pain and torment on some detainees in our custody." "It is indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture.” “Torture occurred in many instances and across a wide range of theaters." 10. Dana Priest. “CIA holds terror suspects in secret prisons.” Washington Post, Nov. 2, 2005. This discusses the covert CIA global internment network (“black sites”) in 8 countries. 11. Claudio Fava, European Parliament. “CIA activities in Europe: European Parliament adopts final report deploring passivity from some Member States.” Feb. 14, 2007. The report discusses at least 1245 illegal CIA rendition flights using European airspace in 2001-2005, the illegal 2003 CIA abduction of cleric Abu Omar in Milan, secret detention facilities at US military bases in Europe (that may include Germany, Sweden, Spain, Ireland, Greece, Cyprus, Denmark, Turkey, Macedonia, Bosnia, Romania and Poland), the UK allowance of 170 airport stopovers (and Ireland allowance of 147 airport stopovers) of potential CIA rendition flights, and a number of cases of individuals illegally subjected to rendition, including torture in some cases, by the US. 12. Harbury Jennifer K. Truth, Torture and the American Way: The History and Consequences of US Involvement in Torture. Boston. Beacon Press, 2005. Up to 100 CIA prisoners, deliberately hidden from the International Committee of the Red Cross, have apparently disappeared. Incidents at Abu Ghraib included setting fire to prisoner’s hands, mock executions, electric shock, insertion of lit cigarettes into detainee’s ears, mock burials, water pits, deprivation of food, light, sleep, and medications, blows to the head resulting in death, confinement in scorching hot shipping containers, beatings with cables and rubber hoses while hung upside down, immersion in cold water, chaining to a ceiling for 7-8 days until extremities turned black, liquefaction of legs by numerous blows followed by death, chaining of hands and feet to a bolt in the floor while being subjected to severe cold and heat while being denied toilet privileges, rape, and prolonged and repeated rectal searches. 13. Lee Keath, Sarah El Deeb. “[Human] Rights watch: evidence of wider US waterboarding.” Associated Press, Sept. 6, 2012. This 154 page report discusses the torture of 14 Libyan dissident exiles. 14. International Committee of the Red Cross. “ICRC Report on the Treatment of Fourteen "High Value Detainees" in CIA Custody.” Feb. 14, 2007. 15. Defined in US Code's Title 18, Chapter 113C (2340), torture is illegal under the 1994 Torture Statute and 1996 War Crimes Act; Torture is prohibited by the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, the United Nations Convention Against Torture, Geneva Conventions III and IV, the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of June 1987, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners of 1955, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of 1966, for example. 16. “CIA torture report fast facts.” CNN.com, updated Sept. 24, 2015. This article discusses the Senate Select Committee's Torture Report, with a 525 page summary of a 6077 page review. Some report conclusions: “The interrogations of CIA detainees were brutal and far worse than the CIA represented to policymakers and others." “119 detainees were held at CIA sites between 2002 and 2008. This is 20 more than previously reported by the CIA.” “39 detainees were subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques, which included sleep deprivation, waterboarding, prolonged standing, and exposure to cold. All but one of these interrogations took place before April 2006.” “At least 26 detainees were found to be held "wrongfully." “Jose Rodriguez, director of the CIA's National Clandestine Service, ordered that 92 tapes of terror suspect interrogations be destroyed. The tapes were made in 2002 and showed the interrogations of Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, including waterboarding.” 17. “Bush admits to knowledge of torture authorization by top advisers. ACLU calls for independent counsel to investigate administration approval of torture and abuse.” American Civil Liberties Union, April 12, 2008. 18. BBC News. “CIA admits waterboarding inmates”, Feb. 5, 2008. 19. CNN. “Memo: two al Qaeda leaders waterboarded 266 times.” April 20, 2009. 20. Spencer Ackerman. “Torture by another name: CIA used 'water dousing' on at least 12 detainees. Interrogators used a technique that elicits a drowning sensation and lowers body temperature on many more detainees than the agency admits to waterboarding.” The Guardian, October 16, 2015. 21. Larry Siems. “Creators of the CIA's enhanced interrogation program to face trial. Two psychologists will face claims they are financially liable in lawsuit brought by three victims of US intelligence agency’s torture program.” The Guardian, Aug. 8, 2017. 22. Peter Foster. “CIA torture more 'brutal and sadistic' than Senate report disclosed. Newly declassified testimony by Guantanamo Bay detainee shows CIA interrogators running out of control.” The Telegraph; Center for Constitutional Rights; Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture; June 2, 2015. 23. Charles J. Hanley. “El Baradei suggests war crimes probe of Bush team.” Associated Press, April 22, 2011. Nobel Peace Prize laureate (2005) Mohamed El Baradei, also former chief U.N. nuclear inspector who failed to find any evidence, in 700 inspections, of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq prior to the war in Iraq, “..accuses U.S. leaders of "grotesque distortion" in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq invasion, when then-President George W. Bush and his lieutenants claimed Iraq possessed doomsday weapons despite contrary evidence collected by El Baradei's and other arms inspectors inside the country.” “The Iraq war taught him that "deliberate deception was not limited to small countries ruled by ruthless dictators...""I was aghast at what I was witnessing," ElBaradei writes of the official U.S. attitude before the March 2003 invasion, which he calls "aggression where there was no imminent threat," a war in which he accepts estimates that hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians were killed. In such a case, he suggests, the World Court should be asked to rule on whether the war was illegal. And, if so, "should not the International Criminal Court investigate whether this constitutes a `war crime' and determine who is accountable?" “El Baradei, citing the war-crimes prosecution of Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic, sees double standards that should end. "Do we, as a community of nations, have the wisdom and courage to take the corrective measures needed, to ensure that such a tragedy will never happen again?" he asks.” 24. Crimes Against Humanity include systematic torture and murder, according to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

I absolutely love this program, its presentation and hostess. Today I listened to Jenn's interview about the documentary "Women with Transitors" and want to mention to Jenn a book about a remarkable woman that I just finished: "The Woman who Smashed Codes" by Jason Fagone. Combination of brainy woman, sensitive woman, the world, wars and code breaking -- timely beyond time. Thank You for all your great great work, Jildy Gross PS I also studied at Uof M.

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I would really like to see David Brooks removed from her Friday night show. He really isn’t a conservative anymore,if he ever was. He pretty much agrees with everything Jonathan Capeheart says. The show is so one sided.

It’s time for her to retire. She no longer is capable of anchoring the Newshour. I’ve watched the show since it’s inception but quit 3 months ago, will resume after she’s replaced

We love this news how and watch every Friday night. We especially enjoy listening to David Brooks and Jonathan Cappart.

Can you please tell David Brook that his rocking in his chair while talking distracts from his articulate and enlightening comments. I’m sure it’s a difficult habit to break but worth trying.

Hello Pbs,

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Years ago I used to support my public broadcasting channel I knew it was fair and nonbias. Now since Trump came into his presidency, the news and discussions are as bias and filled with lies as the main stream media. There is no regard for the conservatives and their opinions left. All is geared toward the liberals and their goals. America and most people are concerned about truth but they have been fed so many lies and so much misinformation that NO news station is concerned with truth except Fox News has some truth in it mostly in the late evening. Science has become a god and lies and immorality are accepted as part of this way of life. Actually science has NOT been followed directly but is influenced by the left who want to please those who hate our conservative values. There is NO more truth nor justice in any of you everything is tainted with hatred for God and hatred for the values we share. May the light shine again and may truth be valued not perverted by you.

I have been an NPR/PBS listener since 1987. Over the last few years the content and tone of your programming and reporting has become increasingly bias. NPR often leaves their listeners trying to sift out what is fact and what is overwhelmingly becoming opinionated, virtue signaling. While I still have great respect for journalist, it appears as though most reporters now must be argumentative debaters, certain to get THEIR righteous point of view across. Perhaps it is best to leave arguing and personal bias reporting to the cable "news" networks? I do expect more from our NPR/PBS stations. Consider making some course adjustments to try to salvage your long standing credibility.

I am not asking for a correction. I am asking that social justice and race-based "propaganda" be left OUT of kids programming. I am not talking about black history, I am not talking about accepting each other as unique, I am not talking about any of those healthy and wholesome topics. I am referring specifically to BLM and race-based political ideologies (which are tools of division) that are designed to amplify our kids differences rather than their commonalities. This type of programming is not going to bring us together, it will do quite the opposite. These segments are teaching racism, disunity, and skin color awareness. They are putting skin color front and center to children who would otherwise never even care. I found it particularly appalling that certain cartoons are specifically including segments on current news and political affairs, These are not topics that belong in the classroom or on PBSKIDS. Just because the current corp news zeitgeist paints America as racist, does not make it so. Just STOP.

All citizens pay for your shoddy coverage of conservatives. You are the right arm of the driving move toward socialism in our country You seem to forget Half this country does not agree with you. I will be working diligently to have public dollars taken from you. Linda

Your news organization only seems to talk about the bad past of the white race. Why don’t they mention facts if they’re going to talk about it like who gathered up the blacks to be sold from Africa to begin with. When they find out the truth they resent you. Every race has a few bad apples but all you talk about is racism how bad our history is on blacks. That’s my point right there it’s history it’s in the past it’s not what’s happening now why don’t you talk about what’s happening now besides what you’re causing in the news! For some reason you want a racial divide, why? We have to live together...Tell facts and and tell the truth if you’re going to tell any story at all! I’m ashamed I’ve watched your program most of my life, The news is supposed to deliver fax and let us decide how we’re going to feel, please tell Judy to stop telling us how we should feel, really! Please retire her, now! And tell the truth, the whole truth, or no story at all.

Hi, I am trying to find lists of stations that fall into the following categories. NPR, Classical, Jazz, AAA, folk/blues, joint licensees, state legislature stations. I see your station finder that is a great tool, but was wondering if there was a way to break them down.

If CPB is going to continue to get my tax money, they could at least put on something besides how to chop an onion, and all that PROPOGANDA for the leftist libs. This is an outrage, CPB is getting 495 million dollars for junk that over half the country knows better. But they just keep gobbling up tax money and spewing their propaganda all over the place. Their like listening to stupid Ole nancy pelosi over and over. They might occasionally put a decent non biased show on, but 9 times out of 10 its leftist garbage, or chopping onions. Makes me sick. If the govt is going to give them money, then they need to give to all TV stations, which cant happen. PBS/CPB shouldn't be getting funded either. This is just leftist malarkey.

Hi This is Claudia out in Palm Desert, California. We haven't had any signal for about three weeks now. Can you fix it?

I am deeply offended of your characterization of the mob riot as an insurrection

When Amna Nawaz reports from a room setting there is a collection of books over her right shoulder. I would like to know what the collection is.

Judy Woodruff needs to retire . She is unable to show dynamic affect and drones on in a ho hum dutiful way stumbling over questions ( rephrasing fragments of questions ) and is a chore to watch ( we do not any more ). Please bring vitality back . Yamiche Alcindor is not a talented presenter and has a forced reporting style that makes watching her unpleasant . Please PBS. Move On!

Turn channel when Judy woodruff is on .get someone younger 800.000 a year you're kidding

I just received one of the many PBS entity donation requests and have decided to respond to all of them that I will not donate until Judy Woodriff is replaced. How about Jericka Duncan from Sunday evening news? Per presentations are very straight forward and to the point.

I have been a financial supporter of PBS and that will stop. I really think you are a propaganda machine for liberal causes. There was nothing reasonable about Alcindor's question to Biden about being to nice. We've got an economic issue. We have an energy issue. We've got problems at the border. These questions were just absurd and they weren't even based up what the American people want to know about. I'm stopping my contributions as are so many people. Get some facts. Deal with reality and what America really wants to know about important issues. How nice Joe Biden is totally irrelevant to what struggles people are facing inside and outside the border.

Last night Judy Woodruff and Brooks and Capeheart, failed to report the most important part of the suppression of the vote in Georgia with the Governor signing of these new voter suppression laws. The most important part is that they take the nonpartisan control of elections away from the Secretary of State and give it to the partisan GOP in the legislature. This means that they can take over any election. They can overturn the results to anyone they want to. They can throw away anyones vote if they want to. This is the heart of the voter suppression and yet it wasn't reported on. I found this extremely disturbing. I want to know why this news is being suppressed. It makes no sense to me. If you could please explain it, I'd really appreciate it.

Yamiche Alcindor seems to be well loved by her compatriots, but she is simply not a smooth and articulate speaker and it gets in the way of following her line of reasoning. I know it’s important for black women to have prominent spots in the media and support that - Gwen Ifill was highly talented! - but can we get someone in there who really moves the discussion along at a high level please? Thank you for reading this.

All recorded videos on CBS lock up. I have a ROKU Television without a box. I stream via Spectrum. Spectrum tried but can not fix it. Please help. I miss Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune, and Sunday Morning, etc. Can you help? John Roth, 29 Montvale Ln, Rochester, NY 14626

I wish to comment on the American Experience program about the race riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1921. It was so one-sided. There was no anger from the Black people that you had on there. It was so one-sided. I hope that you will not make any more American Experiences with that one-sided view. 

Every Monday The NewsHour has a political segment with two left-leaning women. You aren't a private entity. Why shouldn't you include participants who are conservative? I don't mean faux conservatives like David Brooks. Perhaps this would grow your viewership by presenting all views? As it is, Monday night is free advertising for Democrats.

Dear Managers:

I am sending a subsequent letter to continue explaining the importance of the truth in journalism. The following is what I call upon journalists and editors to follow for the model for public news. We need the truth in our daily news and not have the truth subverted in the interest of pop-culture and expediency for framing suspicions, lies, hoaxes and fabricated nonsense as "conspiracy theories," which is a media bandwagon of false headlines for misleading the public. Journalists and editors should be literate enough in science to follow the recommended education expectations for science literacy and be able to reserve the use of theory for science and truth revealing to the public and not follow the fiction writer's model for reporting essential news.

Can you work to strengthen truth in public supported reporting of the news? Can you provide the impetus to influence the editors and journalists to follow the model for theory in science? Here's an excerpt for expected science literacy for the ordinary citizens, and I might add, what we ought to expect from publicly supported news media. Note: journalists ought to be able to frame suspicions and allegations of conspiracy not as theory but as suspicions and unsubstantiated claims of conspiracy as matter of daily activities in their lives as journalists.

"A literate citizen should be able to evaluate the quality of scientific information on the basis of its source and the methods used to generate it. Scientific literacy also implies the capacity to pose and evaluate arguments based on evidence and to apply conclusions from such arguments appropriately." Source -pg. 22 paragraph 3 previous citation & pg. 23 second paragraph: "Scientific literacy implies that a person can identify scientific issues underlying national and local decisions and express positions that are scientifically and technologically informed." (https://www.nap.edu/read/4962/chapter/4)

Best regards,

Aubrey Neas

I happen to be contributing to PBS for a couple of years. I just saw this documentary calling my President Donald J. Trump carnage. If you want to get donors from the 75 million while calling his carnage... How dare you. How dare you allow that. There is documented TV of exactly what this man said. I can't believe how PBS would be a part of this. You see how they twisted that man's words. He did nothing but want to help the American people. If you have a problem with me because I support this great president and the 75 million people, then maybe we shouldn't donate to PBS. You want to talk about misinformation. If PBS is going to start being like the propaganda media, then I'm going to pull my money. This is crazy. Shame on you people. If you want to be along with the other numskulls of America and take it down, then don't accept our money. 

This has to do with the PBS NewsHour, that you fund with our tax dollars. They have not made one mention of an event that took place one week ago. A representative from Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene, submitted House Resolution 57, which calls for the impeachment of President Biden on the basis of his corruption. When you read through the document, there seems to be a lot more standing there than either of the two Trump impeachments. I'm wondering why the trusted PBS NewsHour, which is now showing its liberal bias beyond any stretch of the imagination, has failed to even mention that this event took place a week ago. I watch it every night and I have not heard one mention of this. The PBS NewsHour has shown its liberal bias, especially with Yamiche Alcindor, who is so unbelievably biased against anyone on the right. I'm a centrist and I'm disgusted by both sides, but I'm particularly disgusted by the left right now. They're covering up anything that doesn't go along with their narrative or their agenda. They are even using characters to get the agenda across - the critical race theory and the identity politics. I am now going to work with a group of friends to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Shame on you for your lack of balance or anything that shows any kind of fairness. You are adding to the divide in this country and my tax dollars are not going to fund it. 

PBS will not provide information about programs unless the user specifies a local station. but many of us access multiple PBS stations, perhaps because of traveling all around the country. I think that CPB support for programs should require that program information be available to the public without specifying a specific station.

I listen to news to be advised on what is happening in my country. I don't need these so called journalists to tell me what to think. All I ask for from journalists is the bullet points, you can't even give me that. I want basic info from journalists, not opinions. Give me the basics, I can find facts and form my own opinion. Journalism no longer exists

It has been many years since I've used television to obtain my news. I say that because medium too often is more of the message than the message itself. While the organization's founders were really riveted on minimizing the impact of personality or other visual or sensorial influences, it's choice of message-givers made it a construct of the power-elite. Today's news show with Judy Woodruff is a far more message-driven production, that makes great efforts to portray the impacts of world and national news on a broader populace. The selection and prioritization of news pieces also reflects the importance of impact on everyday lives. The lifestyle/arts magazine portions of the show are routinely uplifting and insightful. While I still predominantly obtain my news from written sources, I wanted to convey my appreciation and admiration to you for your current product.

BRAVO and Thank You.

You know I don’t even vote because things are so corrupt and one sided that I understand why the democrats are in fear. The non sto lies and efforts to remove him from office has created there own fear. Thy are so self centered and focused on destroying trump they completely ignore the efforts by fbi and there illeagal subpoena and wire taps for something they created this has been on going non sto. What makes them so errogant to think that people aren’t going to turn on them and there constant efforts to destroy this country. It’s probably pretty smart to get him off social media because all he would have to do is make a call to arms nation wide and the dems would be hiding in an crack or whole the can find Again I don’t vote but the capitol was very small in the scope of things cause I along with many many numbers would answer his call they better get a grip before many people get a grip on them. It would be one thing if the did the same with Biden. To where thereefforts where true and honest. But it is so sad and sick If I did what they have done. I would be in fear as well. And I would hope that somebody would stop me in my track and shake the hell out of me befor I did something there was no coming back from I don’t care how much you dislike e him you don’t lie create scenerios that aren’t true to get what you want then when there is real evidence against you that you’ve been caught at many times and your candidate and his son are thief’s and liars and criminals How can you keep going along the same track your on. If you think the capitol was scary just keep it up and see how many people will really answer his calll to arms. I would back the f off

Are these the ideals that CPB were intending to support when the donation to PBS was made?

https://www.projectveritas.com/video/pbs-principal-counsel-lays-out-violent-radical-agenda-says-americans-are-f/

This is a disgusting point of view. Re-education camps and separating children from their parents for an opposing point of view.

I have read hundred of complaints regarding how unbalanced and opinionated the NewHours has become, you can't take money from taxpayers and only report propaganda from the left, you state that you have nothing to do with these shows, you don't produce ect., so making comment is a complete waste of time, pointless. Both of these organization refuse to hire conservative journalist, or have any guest that don't fit a Socialist/Communist narrative. You make wonderful shows on Travel, Science, Food etc., but you should no longer be allowed a favored tax break for reporting any Political programs. Your ads say, Fair and Balanced or something like that and that's completely untrue. Yamish and the other three gals are not journalist, they just give us their liberal opinion, so cut the crap, drop those ads as the News Hours is not honest at all. Go back to Journalist school, or hire some Conservative Journalist, investigative reporting is not what you are doing, you are nothing more than a propaganda tool for the Communist party. . . the other show are great, stop the Political B.S. shows. . . Bashing the President of the United States 24/7/ 365 is not news, you treated Obama or Hillary or Billy, or Sid Blumenthal the senator who lied about his Military service. Everyone knows voter fraud is real but U? Not one honest story on Voter Fraud, where's the Journalism.. .. . . I have watched you every week for years, so I know how bad you have become, lead, follow or get out of the business. . .

PBS is publically owned, given $445 Million per year by Taxpayers, Democrats, Republicans, Independents Etc. Given these facts why did PBS refuse to report the stories about Hunter Biden's ties to the Chinese and the FBI investigation of his Laptop?

KOCE has a disturbing clanging (probably from electric guitars) noise during a station break just after and just before a program. They often show very serious or a particularly interesting human story or serious history, perhaps about some kind of human struggle. Then, on the station break you get this very noisy clanging sound. It's disturbing. I don't know why they have that particular noise between programs. Why? Often I just leave the station as soon as a program is over and go to some other station. Moreover, I send NO donation to the station.

Judy Woodruff should retire. NOW. She drones on, forever, setting up questions and generally talks WAAAAAAY too much, and says virtually nothing. We do not need 5 damned minutes of Woodruff "setting the piece up" with her own ridiculously long opinions.

To Woodruff: Shut the f*** up b****.

I know through our funding, through our donations, that you fund all the programs on PBS, including PBS NewsHour. I'm calling to let you know why I will not donate again. I am thoroughly disgusting with what I regularly see now on the PBS NewsHour. Right now I'm watching a report on the pandemic, where Judy Woodruff is interviewing some guy from the New York Times who has laid the entire pandemic at the feet of Donald Trump. I'm a lifelong Democrat but this is absolute nonsense. I have videos of all of our leaders, including here in Califronia - Nancy Pelosi and Gavin Newsom saying, "Come to Chinatown. This thing is going to pass quickly." The same thing in New York, where they were putting recovering patients in nursing homes and then had people dropping like flies. The misstep that took place here was on all sides and by everyone. The fact that Trump was not more forceful in his rhetoric, yes, I think he is an idiot in that way. However, people were listening to everyone, including the Democrats who said that there was nothing to see here. The CDC said for months that they didn't believe that it was airborne and they didn't believe we had to wear masks. All of the sudden we had to wear masks. All of that seems to be forgotten while they lay all of that at the feet of one man, saying that he is responsible for as many for 180,000 to 200,000 deaths. What absolute garbage. That is not news. That is bull****. I don't know what else to call it. That is pure bull****. Watching the Newshour and hearing to Yamiche Alcindor almost regularly now, "Judy, people are saying" or "Judy, according to critics." That is not news. That is heresy. That is yellow journalism and garbage. I won't fund it and a lot of my friends are saying likewise. If your funding is going down then that is why. I think its time for Judy to go take a holiday anyway. I think Amna Nawaz should take over for her. I think she is a journalist. When she's questioning reporters it has a different tone to it. When Judy is questioning reporters, especially Yamiche Alcindor, she seems to lead her. Yamiche, I don't know where the h*** she came from but that is not a journalist. Someone that says "critics are saying" and things like that is not a journalist. And most of your bumpers that they put up a graphic - they have these statistics that are all out of wack with no source mentioned at all. This is like heresy news now. I think MacNeil/Lehrer would be agast if they saw this. And Gwen Iffil, who was my favorite, would vomit if she saw what was passing for news on PBS now. I just wanted to let you people know why I am not with you anymore. I love PBS, but I am disgusted by the PBS Newshour now. I will fund my local one but I will never give a big gift ever again.

Your schedule states that Doc Martin was to be seen tonight, Jan 4 2021 at 7 PM but, once again another screw up and disappointment - The PBS NEWSHOUR was shown instead. How many times I have adjusted my own schedule to watch PBS programs and then NUTS - here we go again - one reason why I quit watching PBS

I have watched pbs always.i have ordered from the catalogue.i will no lonnger do so.for the most part you have non stop shows that are black and hispanic oriented as if they are the only people that count.you are not impartial at all. The democrats have fermented hate and division for decades always claimintheother guy did it.communisim has now been illegally been put in to office. Biden is a treasonas lying crook You will never show that anymore than you did about the commumist leaning of obama.your like the rest of tv news & mainstream news.biased. all o care about is saving the rebublic from the lunatic left.personality wise trump lacks it but he is also the only president since tegan who has tried tp stop china from taking our country.the 1% who own facebook google & the media stole this election. I am done with your station.you do not give equal coverage For the most part you are to far to socialist left.trump is the only person who has called it what it is .fake news

Way too liberal. NPRs answer to why they chose to ignore the very real laptop of Hunter Biden was a complete lie, 100% fabrication. Not one ounce of truth. Given the outright lie, that asshole should be fired and any and all federal funds should be withheld. New standards forcing fair and non partisan coverage enacted. The paradox, NPR would not be able to find any. Odd, huh. No ex NYTer, no Berkeley professors. None

Quit being liberal d*** heads. Love the 1st ammendment, protected by the 2nd ammendment.

I have been watching PBS including the Masterpiece Theater offerings for many years. I'll tell you one reason British TV does so well here: It's because UK productions are done so excellently and imaginatively. The British have a long history of excellent literature and theater--and it shows. I often sit in awe of the productions and the quality of British dramatics. The culture here in the U.S. has not for quite some time lent itself to the quality of our productions compared to that which we are lucky to receive from the literary/drama traditions of Britain. (Just a note: I am probably the only person in the world who would have preferred Mr. Cumberbatch performing the "Sherlock" of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I didn't enjoy a surreal "Sherlock" at all. You should have made up a character of your own, not stealing the name "Sherlock" and, instead, come up with your own character name. For me, it was a cheap shot! And god help us if you do the same thing to Agatha Christie characters. Unfortunately, the generations probably since Vietnam or even Korea and The Beatles and R & R have been left without any taste for the classics and don't know any better). Thank heavens I lived in the era of wonderful Hollywood (and foreign film era), and radio, based many of their stories on British stories and very often starred British actors. e.g. Charles Laughton, C. Aubrey Smith, Cary Grant, Vivien Leigh, Maureen O'Hara, Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Clare Bloom, Helen Mirren, Geraldine Fitzgerald [was she British?]) I respect and enjoy thoroughly the classics, as well as current offerings IF they're good. However, the classics today barely exist: Shakespeare? Walter Scott? Brontes? Austen? Stevenson? Beethoven? Gregorian Chant, De Lassus? Hayden? Mozart? Stravinsky? Ravel? Schubert?--and in television: "I Claudius", "Prime Suspect", and many others. I have repeatedly appealed to KOCE to rerun "Prime Suspect." Its theme, its plot is totally current. But they just don't do it. "I Claudius" definitely should be rerun. You'll never equal the 1st production if you make a new one. The actors and the mindsets today just aren't in the right ballpark. "Victoria"? Sure. It will become a classic. Also, the most recent "Forsyth Saga" (Forsyte?) may become a classic. But, you, too, have no interest in your Masterpiece productions that have become classics (I'm not saying that all are, but some ARE). I suppose that you like to get more money to produce new work and support current writers, directors, actors, etc. Too bad, it appears that the classics are disappearing off the shelves and racks. By the way, KOCE has the most disturbing clanging sound that is increased, electric guitars(?), during program breaks. I don't know why they keep it. It's particularly unpleasant after an important or moving program. They should get rid of it. Otherwise, it's a pretty good station, but then, all the PBS stations are.

please reboot sagwa

I watch PBS Newshour live with your new live feature on APP on Apple TV. My husband walks in, and says oh no live. I can’t fast forward through Judy Judy Judy. Please help her retire, ease her into it.

Please can Judy Woodruff provide more in-depth reporting about the planned continued planned insurection that will manifest in armed attacks on every capitol in all fifty states.

I am a Massachusetts educator, and I was impressed by the online assignment, "Why is Fake News So Effective?" This topic was broken down in a manner which reached different types of learners. The images and interactives really kept my students engaged. I also appreciate the final assessment, which nicely drew on a culmination of skills that the student built from the previous segments in the assignment.

I wanted to know if the maker of this online interactive has other interactives of this nature. I appreciate the manner in which students can work on topics, save information, and see a folder of their work. I also think that this is extremely helpful for educators, as they are able to conveniently aggregate and grade students' data. If you can please assist me with this, that would be great!

Sincerely,

Robert Fitzgerald Norton High School, Massachusetts

I saw a video circulating Facebook where your principal counselor is calling for Trump’s supporters children to be placed in camps, like Hitler. If this is truly the view of this station, you do not deserve any funding. You are a disgrace. If this is not your company’s view, you need to fire him immediately!

Your all disgusting and all of you should be in prison

I have really enjoyed the Mark Shields & David Brooks discussions. Judy Woodward & the entire team are hard driving, remarkably fair, objective, unbiased & always professional. I will miss Mark Shields, am glad he'll be back on occasion, & wish him the best! In the meantime PBS News Hour will remain my go to for comprehensive news & creative programming geared to both inform & educate. TKU

I just received an email from PBS requesting a donation. As long as this station continues to have such an overt leftist bias, they can forget about any additional support from me. In fact, I support eliminating taxpayer funding since they do not impartially represent ALL of the people.

Do you think you will ever do A Town Like Alice and The Thorn Birds again? Thank you. Lillian Smith Corvallis OR

I am of the opinion as others before me that PBS is a far left organization and your bias is so obvious. The German station DW New with Brent Goff is a typical left leaning propagandist against the United States. He doesn't impress me at all and seems to me to be a no talent journalist that couldn't get a job in the USA!!!

I am contacting my senator about cutting government funding to PBS due to it's liberal/ democratic party bias. There should be no bias in public television. It is plain to see the bias, especially on Ampour and company and the PBS news hour.

I cannot believe you would drop the most intelligent show on your schedule (Peg + Cat) and put in its place something as vapid and ridiculous as Pinkaicious. You wonder how young children have any chance to learn anymore

Is it possible within the corporation's power to also sell merchandise based on its legacy and place in the culture of public media in our country? I know this becomes a niche of a niche, but I figure it might be worth considering as a revenue option, if only insignificant. Also, I just want a shirt with the CPB logos of yore on them. Thanks!

PBS is federally funded yet thinks that it can be extremely liberally bias. My taxes for their radical views? Take them off the air.

I voted for Biden, and I dislike and disapprove of Trump. That said, I would like Judy Woodruff to resist showing her animosity to Trump. It is getting boring, predictable, and annoying to hear her bash Trump every evening and in almost every news story. It is almost to the point that I think she has a personal (not professional) vendetta towards Trump. If she cannot report news without unnecessarily bringing Trump into it, she should retire. I donate to PBS, but I'm looking for other news sources.

That was the worst interview my family has seen by Judy Woodruff. She constantly was asking the same nonsensical things about the people being duped? What was she trying to get that man to say.? She was trying to get her point across on how the people want Georgia’s election thrown out. How about retiring Ms Woodrow. For a competent interviewer

I sincerely want to know why people who run for offices in congress are not vetted at any point when they are running for office, especially the President. How can we even begin to clean up the toxicity in Washington if we do not Vet who is wanting these positions? If we the people have any hope for a continued democracy, this is mandatory and yet for some reason it is not. This sadly is how vacant human beings with no grasp of moral perpetuity become monsters, grifting America under the disguise of patriotism. Please help me and the rest of this nation understand why we have failed in making sure this thoughtlessness does not continue.

I sincerely want to know why people who run for offices in congress are not vetted at any point when they are running for office, especially the President. How can we even begin to clean up the toxicity in Washington if we do not Vet who is wanting these positions? If we the people have any hope for a continued democracy, this is mandatory and yet for some reason it is not. This sadly is how vacant human beings with no grasp of moral perpetuity become monsters, grifting America under the disguise of patriotism. Please help me and the rest of this nation understand why we have failed in making sure this thoughtlessness does not continue. Sincerely Brenda McLaughlin

How are you legally charging for a PBS Passport to watch programming my tax dollars pay for? I'd like to give PBS an opportunity to answer this question before I take it to my state representative.

It is very important that you look at Yamiche Alcindor. She is biased. She starting to talk completely with her hands. She needs to be fired.

I believe in public Television. We’ve contributed in the past. However lately your programming is really bad, All this dark and hopeless murder garbage, one after the other! Incredibly depressing. Then there are these pointless repetitive series that disappear after 3 episodes because they don’t get traction. How many times in a row can you show the same Father Brown? As a musician, I have to say you ignore jazz and more serious and modern forms of music. Austin City Limits has become laughable. Lawrence Welk, really? Every time you want money you show the same tired old rock and soul over and over again. Now you’re pushing these idiot new age gurus which are ridiculous. I guess yet another excuse for showing Downton Abbey is coming right? You need to modernize and live up to the values you claim to have. At the moment I’m finding less reason to watch you.

For many years, brown African Americans have been called black. As you know how negative and corrosive the term represents. Pinkish European Americans have been given the false narrative and privilege of being called white. Forms, schools and media continue these false narratives that causes hate and arrogance because of this ignorance. It is the responsibility of you who address the public daily to teach Truth and heal the divisions caused by this propaganda. Native Americans, Hispanic or Latino Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans and European Americans are some of the diversity that comprises America. Let's begin speaking Truth!

This is Richard James Goodall, checking in with you guys. Just wanted to let you guys know that, during these tough times, working together as a big team is a must, as we try to find a cure for the COVID-19 virus.

I wanted to thank you for having Mark Shields on your program every Friday. I've been following him for years and I think he is the voice of reason and sanity in what seems a sometimes insane country. Such a relief just to hear his comments once a week.

Why does PBS on Youtube most times turn off their comments section. Why do most people who work for PBS show and affinity for democrats. I have watched many of your news shows and it always seems you turn off comments and then spout democratic rhetoric. I am sorry but i pay a bunch in taxes and i am curious why you use our tax dollars to belittle or under mind any conservative frame of mind.

I am going to do my best to see what i can do to have the ACT President Johnson signed and the appropriations given to CPB withdrawn or lowered. I do not see why you need hundreds of millions of dollars of our tax money to tell use how good the democrats are.

I have been an NPR listener for years. Unless you start covering Hunter Biden and the information coming out concerning the Bidens, I will listen to you or donate to you again. How dare you cut out the news. 

I have been listening to NPR for forty years. I can not believe the audacity of you not to cover real news. Unless you start covering Hunter Biden and the laptop, hotel, and other people associated with Biden, I will make sure that you never get another public dime again or from any government agency. I will work hard to defund you. 

I just got done watching "The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden" I was just appalled by that documentary. I have watched PBS Frontline over the years and I thought they were a pretty good year. This year, not so much. What they were trying to get us to believe is that election is all about character, temperament, persona, and personality. They said that at the end of the show. They said that policy is not the choice on this year's ballot. I don't believe that for a minute. They tried to make Trump look better than Biden. If this show was the only thing that I ever saw to make a decision, I would not vote for either man. I have been watching politics my whole adult life - some 50 years. I can tell you that Trump is a better President than Biden will ever be. This is just another propaganda film. You put some blemishes on Joe Biden. I grant you that. You tried to make him look like an empathetic figure. He's had a tough life. I'll grant you that, so have a lot of other people. To be a 78-year-old, senile man as President of the United States will not get the job done and PBS did not get the job done on this film. I'm appalled. I will never make another donation to PBS. 

I'm leaving a message about programming on my local PBS station, WHYY. I'm here in Philidelphia. I'm really upset that they are playing the Frontline interview with the 2020 candidates, which is the most biased piece of "reporting" that I've ever seen. They are playing it here on a day when there are riots and protests and an election six days away. This is public broadcasting and that is absolutely not acceptable. The Frontline piece on Joe Biden and Donald Trump is highly biased, highly prejudicial in favor of the Democratic candidate and it makes me disgusted. I'm an actual Democrat. I really want to complain about that. I already canceled my membership for this very reason. I don't want to see it in my newspapers. I'm sick and tired of the bias. Everything seems to be fake news and it's impossible to know what to believe because of things like this. Public broadcasting stations shouldn't be biased. 

I am a PBS subscriber and I am also a subscriber to 'COMMENTARY', a conservative Jewish magazine. I am ALSO a German-American and a historian by academic training. I am quite well aware of the terrible events that occurred during the 2WK (AKA: WW2) under the Hitler regime. And yes, they were reprehensible by any definition of 'racial persecution', but I am extremely tired of having this 75+ year old drama replayed practically every week on PBS programming. If it isn't Rick Steeves preaching about the horrors of German National Socialism, it's 'The Rise of the Nazis' or the 75th anniversary of that travesty of international law known as the Nürnberg War Crime Trials.

It is quite obvious that PBS loves to rub Nazis in our faces, every time we turn around, and I for one am sick to death of it. What is also quite obvious is that bashing Nazis has become a regular pastime on PBS and I'm uncertain as to exactly why, unless it's because there's so much influence by pro-Jewish elements of American society at PBS who are behind this. In the present decade of American progressive 'Democratic identity-socialism', it appears to be conveniently overlooked that Hitler's execrable transgressions against humanity were and have been far exceeded by a full century of Soviet/Russian Communist barbarity (whose victims number in the hundreds of millions)! There have been innumerable, equally despicable villains (AKA: mass-murderers) in the past several thousand years of human history...Napoleon, Ghengiz Khan, Mao Zhedong, Pol Pot...the list is practically endless...but whom do we chose to trot out of the closet of horrors every week? Why, those lovable, ultimate mega-monsters, the German National Socialists!

The fact that Josef Stalin was ostensibly our 2WK 'ally', who shared in the defeat of the German Third Reich (and a subsequent victory-wreath) endowed his utterly barbaric depredations (mostly against his own people!) with a most convenient blanket immunity from worldwide censure that has been conveniently swept under the historical carpet. Had the Soviets been on the losing side, make no mistake in thinking that Stalin would have escaped the same sort of carnival-like miscarriage of justice that the Nürnberg Tribunal defendants faced. Despite the populist ballyhoo that portrays the Nürnberg Tribunal as just and fair, a preponderance of objective jurists today condemn them as an absolute, utter farce. They were in fact a travesty of proper jurisprudence and the equivalent of a virtual 'Old West Style' lynch mob right from the beginning!

Reichsmarschall Herman Göring, in his lengthy prepared statement before the Tribunal, presented many compelling arguments in his defense (and the defense of the other defendants), but today the lucidity and practical cogency of his testimony is also conveniently ignored and/or overlooked by liberal historians. Göring masterfully summarised his testimony with the chilling reminder that “Der Sieger wird immer der Richter und der Besiegte stets der Angeklagte sein” ("The victor will always be the judge and the vanquished the accused").

In summary, enough is enough. It's time to stop beating a dead horse. Stop fanning the leftist liberal 'SOCI' (for that was the popular term for socialists, back in Germany's 1930s) flames and let's get on with life in the present moment! We have enough things on our cultural plate to worry about without being accused of being 'closet Nazis' every time we turn around!

One final thing: What is termed 'Anti-semitism' is a gross misnomer. The proper term should be 'Anti-Jewish' or 'Anti-Zionist', since the term 'semite' applies to all peoples of the Southwest Asian region and therefore unjustly impugns the entire range of Arab peoples, none of whom are Jewish.

Just recently signed up for PBS passport. Since signing up, I have noticed language censorship. Why, and is there a way to disable it?

My wife and I are avid watchers of the PBS Newshour and enjoy what we feel is excellent and fair reporting. We are also long standing supporters of NPR. We have, however, been very disappointed by the biased reporting by Yamiche Alcindor. As I watch her manage to take any positive news that involves Republicans and turn it into a negative, I wonder how it is that she has been given such editorial leeway. I always wait for the...but...which is the signal she is about to move into her biased agenda. The Newshour has a great team of reporters, however, Alcindor does not, in our opinion, maintain the same level of professionalism.

I watched almost all of the PBS News Hour election special, and was disgusted by the obvious liberal bias of your news anchor Judy Woodruff. At about 1 am last night (November 4th 2020) Judy Woodruff made a statement about republicans being "rural, and without a college education." I am an independent but my family is all college educated republicans and the assault on them was unjust and uncalled for. Ever since David Gregory got fired as moderator of Meet the Press, I have relied on PBS for what I felt was the last unbiased news. It makes me sad that the last reliable news station in this country has been corrupted by anchors like Judy Woodruff who would rather report their opinions over facts. I will no longer be watching PBS News Hour, and no longer recommend it to others who are tired of the far left and far right news. I'm sure this email wont even be read but it's important enough that I have to try. My last remaining source of unbiased news media is foreign news like german Deutsche Welle. Even though many of the topics on Deutsche Welle are impertinent to me as an American, the lead anchor Brent Goff is always on point. His interviews are full of poignant unbiased questions and he never puts forward his opinions, only facts. I hope some day PBS News Hour can find an anchor like Brent Goff who can return your news station into the hub of information it once was. Thank you for reading.

The video from David Brooks home webcam has been TERRIBLE for 6 MONTHS!! This is a feature segment. It looks really poor, it's distracting. Look at Jonathan Carhart crystal clear, David is badly out of focus/cloudy. Look! An excellent camera is $100. I'd be honored and happy to donate that new camera.

Please forward this to: Sydni Dreher, Senior Production Manager Michael Melia, Senior Broadcast Producer and Stuart Cohen, Editor/Camera/Tech.

This is my daily news since the live Watergate hearings coverage,(I was 14).

Dear Mr.Shields and Mr. Brooks, A former Marine asked last Friday "why can't America have 2 Presidents?"

Taught to fight after Vietnam mostly with other Marines on base after years of being kicked out of exceptional schools over fighting, this 65 year old who got a GED from Jesuit in Dallas, predictably claims to have voted, after finally staying out of prison for a score of dwi's. Yes he never went to jail while I represented him for 1 score of cases. But later, penniless, the Tennessee solution presented itself and thankfully he quit.

Impressed by wealth and touched by narscasim himself, this man who used to con many others, has always been vulnerable to bigger cons. He took care of a disabled sister who is now cared for under Medicaid but fails to understand Texas Republicans would starve the program if they could.

Ironically it seems that if Biden gets to 270 with Nevada Saturday, his hero Trump will not exit with class and will claim being co president, without forcing Biden into a corrupt bargain to encourage him to leave.

McConnell wanted the will of the people. Well 2 million more selected Biden before Trump tries to use the 2000 playback to stop the count. Can't these folk be more creative?

Being an old USAF Korean veteran and living through many life lesions, I find it quite disturbing that your programing is so unbalanced.

Constantly your stations show past and present history of the Jewish people, why is this done?

This is the USA, your stations should be showing our own history of how our native people were treated rather than mostly Jewish populations in Europe, both past and present

At this time I now turn off your stations off that blast the old and new articles about Hebrews, I have heard every story too many times.

Get with our USA and show our own problems, stop living off the backs of Jewish people.

Possibly your concern needs new management !!!

R A Ebitz Pittsburgh/Greensburg Pa

I just read Mark Shields column in my local newspaper, the Mining Journal, Marquette, Michigan. Nov. 10, 2020. The article is about two white older men who ran for president. Fire of all, I like Mark Shields, consider myself a progressive Democrat. He mentions the number voting, etc. NOT ONCE, however did M. Shields mention the choice ofKAMALA HARRIS (diversity!) -- By Joe Biden. This is a HUGE factor in the MASSIVE NUMBER of votes for Joe B.

It is still astonishing --to me--that Trump got the number that he did. I have to remind myself that many of those who voted for DT 45 are people who will vote Republican - NO MATTER WHAT forever. Many are white non educated people who think he is going to actually help them. Some Trump voters care only about what they see as the ECONOMY getting better. So really -- Not many are the extremist RIDICULOUS white supremacist wing of this group (the ones who carry guns into Michigans capitol, for example. Another part of his voters are ignorant of actual facts and do not care about the DIVERSITY of this America today. America is changing rapidly -- whether WHITE VOTERS for 45 realize that. Far more states are purple or bue than ever before. Women who voted for Trump are simply voting against their own best interests, like the women of the 50-60s who served dinner in their aprons, Handmaids tale.

Those old white men who voted for Trump need to wake up to a more diverse country. Thats just a fact of American Life.

Thanks, Mark, for the good work. Just a few comments. You needed to add Kamala to the article.

I was calling in concern of the PBS NewsHour. I am a local viewer in Vermont. I am concerned that it is not factual news and that it is opinionated news with people sitting there to crap on the President and talk nothing but negative opinions about him. They're not basing the news on facts. It is ridiculous. You guys need to stay neutral with politics. You guys are losing millions and millions of dollars in donations. That is a fact. I watch your news daily. They just commented that Trump interrupted Biden over one hundred times but they did not mention that Biden interrupted Trump over seventy times. It is ridiculous. It is based on opinions not facts. Your news channel is a mess. Just is a Socialist Democrat who can't hold her emotions back. You guys are losing millions in donations. You need to stay neutral in politics. 

Please comment on the experimental error rate (margin of error) for the various trials. Please comment on what the placebos are in the various trials; they are not all the same. Also , why isn’t the appropriate placebo the adjuvant rather than saline? Also, why did the news media not immediately ask for the error rate? it’s the same principle as in political polling.

This reporter, who is one of the Newshour's featured, speaks so fast she is impossible to hear. Such speed trivializes the content.

I want to let you know that I have been a contributor for years and this is the straw that broke the camel's back - the disregard unbiased news stories, especially with the Hunter Biden issue and lack of support for the President. I will not be donating any longer to PBS. There are a lot of good programs, especially for my grandson. However, I can't continue to support an organization with such biased accountability. You have lost a loyal supporter and I will encourage others to do the same, and actually look toward defunding the organization. This is absolutely ridiculous. There needs to be accountability in your real, whatever that may be. I will continue to pursue that. 

I hope this is PBS. I just wanted to mention that I will never watch your station. I feel that your reporting was biased and I also felt that you were trying to make the news rather than report the news. Unbelievable that I've been watching you all these years. Maybe I have not been getting the proper news. I'm done with PBS. And your radio stations are included. They're horrible. They do exactly the same thing. I'm finished. 

Liam Jardin’s reporting is Excellent but I wish she would over a few inches so she wouldn’t always be displaying that Martini shaker in her cabinet. She must read. Why not show a few books?

A strong supporter of The News Hour.

I am contacting my congressman and senator to ask to repeal all government funding to CPB. They refuse to cover Bidens laptop but smeared the lies on Russia about the Trump administration. Now the are enemies of free speech.

ITs hard to believe that NPR a government funded radio station can deny anything it wants as newsworthy..Until the Biden crime family says any of these emails are not lrgitimate it is a STORY and not subject to your Censorship..Thank God Dr, Gosar is going to get you defunded!!!

It is bewildering to me that tax payers democrats and republicans give money to PBS as a non political entity, yet in all their coverage, both radio and tv are far to the left in a lot of their coverage of political issues. Shame on them, and shame on us for supporting them!

I understand that people leaning left or right on the political scale can see bias in reporting and interviewing. I have watched the PBS Newshour on and off for many years and I sense a shift in reporting to the left. For example, following a final report on the unsuccessful impeachment proceedings against the president in late January and February, a PBS Newshour reporter stated that another House Committee would soon launch another inquiry into the president. To which Ms. Woodruff replied forcefully with a smile, "You bet!" This seemed to imply that she wholeheartedly supported yet another attempt oust the president. I thought that was uncalled for and showed extraordinary bias unbecoming a journalist. This is but one example of what I hear regularly on the program. Ms. Woodruff seems to go to great lengths to be harsh and almost uncivil in tone, demeanor and line of questioning of anyone from the Republican side of the political spectrum compared to the softer tone and line of questioning with anyone on the Democratic side and I do not believe I am imagining it. I have seen this in her interviews with the Senator from Wyoming vs. NY's Schumer or Speaker Pelosi. She impatiently interrupts the Republican, not allowing the person to completely answer the question, while letting the Democrat talk on and on without interruption. This results in a different impression of the interviewee, negative as to the Republican and positive for the Democrat. The day to day reporting seems, by implication, to lay the blame for every event at the feet of the current administration, be it a weather event or a racial confrontation or a gun related situation. I get a "gotta" feeling when I watch the Newshour. What I want, and so many other people too, is balanced and fair reporting that the newshour advertises. Reading the CPB viewer comment section, many people do not feel that the PBS Newshour offers balanced, fair reporting. Many Americans do not seem to trust in the news they are receiving from PBS Newshour that is funded, in part, by the taxpayer and viewers. I am one of them. I have found the Wall Street Journal to be far more balanced and educational in the presentation on issues of the day with well written columns and editorials. The news coverage is better too, with reports from many places around the world, rather than touchy feely articles that are weak on information. The WSJ leans conservative, but it provides a forum for differing views, such as a column by Rahm Emanuel on why Biden would be a president for change and Trump is a disrupter, or the column on the background of Harris' mother, a Tamil Brahmin, from a culture that highly values education, who was forced to leave India due to quota systems for employment. This explains why Harris as SF DA prosecuted parents of truant children. She values education too. It's a pity she has been reviled by the black community for this effort. Without an education, there is no hope of becoming a contributing member of our society. What I seek in the news is a variety of opinion and wide range reporting so I can form my own opinions. The PBS Newshour does not measure up and in fact it is a disappointment. Another PBS program, Amanpour and Company is equally disappointing and is even more biased in its presentations. Recently, the program had as guests, the Lt Governor or Michigan (democrat) and the woman who started Republicans against Trump, to discuss the upcoming election in the battleground state. There was no interview with a Republican or a group that is against Biden. There was no balance in the program. Why do you continue to carry such a one-sided excuse for journalism? Ms. Amanpour seems to have abandoned any standards of journalism in her programs and they should be offered as commentary and entertainment. She is reputed to have said, "when you are neutral, you are an accomplice." This should not be the position of a journalist and yet the PBS Newshour program and Amanpour and Company appear to be anything but neutral.

I am legally blind as are over three milion people in the US. I know that PBS accomodates the hearing impaired with captions. However, when programs have people speaking in other languages, there is no voice over to help us understand what is being said. Also, with some shows that are hard to understand there are also sub titles and again, low or no vision patrons are left out. Of course it is not only PBS but all TV staions, but supposedly PBS is interested in accessibility. Another issue the diversity of programming in SW Florida. We are "snowbirds" and have the opportunity to compare programming in Fla. and Southestern, Connecticut(Ct.) Though the couhnty in Ct. is not affluent about two and half hrs. NYC, we have six PBS channels wh are: Ch.2; Boston: Ch.13, Hartford: Ch1160, Create; Ch.1161"Sorit"; Ch.1146 World and chPBS44, local PBSBoston. One thing are do appreciate is that Friday and Saturday night are a little"special". Series such as "Dr. Blake" and "Mid-Sommer Murders" and other interesting programs are aired. So too, they have finally cancelled "The Lawrence Welk Show, which has been on my whole teen and adult life and I am 77. It is really time to say "Goodbye" to Lawrence. While you are at it, "Keeping up Appearance" and "As Time Goes By" need to be laid to rest. :ast is the repetition; I know your funds have been cut but repeating things ten to twenty times a month is wearing. If you must repeat, go back to your succesful series from the past such as "Jewel in the Crown" and re-run" those. Because I have twice as many choices in Ct. the repetition does not bother me as much.

October 28, 2020

Dear PBS,

How many hundreds of thousands of households in Maine no longer get public television? If you took a poll to determine who is able to watch PBS anymore I think you would be surprised that it truly is in the hundreds of thousands.

Why when WCSH TV channel 6 NBC switched to digital recently and all I had to do was rescan my TV to get it. As for PBS, I haven't been able to view it since you switched to something else impossible to get even on a new smart TV.

Years have gone by with no PBS for probably hundreds of thousands of Mainers. is just unknow or it's swept under the carpet along with the viewership of myself and everyone else in Maine who hasn't viewed PBS for YEARS.

Sincerely,

Randy Hawkins appletonfair22@yahoo.com

Shame on you. I felt the discussion with the French Laundry chef was appalling and insensitive to what is occurring today. Parents can’t feed their children, millions are out of work, and many face eviction while this chef feels it important to give people (rich people) an “experience” dining for $1600.00 a couple. I turned it off because it made me sick. If he said at the end he donated $1400 to their local food bank I would have felt better.

In the interests of transparency, I was looking through the cpb.org website for staff and officer salaries. It surprised me to find that there is little to no information about what the staff and officers are paid, and since this organization is entirely funded by taxes, it should be somewhat easier to determine how those tax dollars are spent. I see that 5% of total revenues are allocated to administration costs, but further details are lacking. Where can one find this information?

I wanted to comment on the debates last night and in general. I find that there is a remarkably limited variety of commentary going on, not a wide range of discussions like I am used to. I used to watch the MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour. What I really liked about it is that one got a very wide variety of perspectives on things. There were great discussions and one could always rely on the fact that you were going to learn something new and be enlightened. Even if you didn't necessarily agree with a person's opinion or their take on their subject, you got a different perspective on it. What is different now is that it seems to be all of the same perspectives and it is a shame. Judy Woodruff is the managing editor of the NewsHour and she was a contributor to the MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour significantly. She knows very well about the mechanisms of having a varied perspective and point of view is practiced in journalism. I'm very disappointed in Ms. Woodruff and the whole operation. It seems to be very amateurish. You have people who appear to be very biased and it's clear when you listen to them that they hold these partisan views. It's very discouraging and I personally don't wish my tax money to be going to this operation and I intend to make it known. 

October 18, 2020

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Here is what I sent your local station just this morning, as a second follow up:

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I really miss Mark Shields and David Brooks' commentary this year during the debates. I hope you will be bringing them back for election coverage and commentary. I am a (former) long time Republican who could not check the box for Trump in 2016 and will not in 2020 either. The Republican Party as it exists today is not the party of true conservative values: smaller government, compassionate, a hand up rather than a hand out, strength abroad with our allies, fair trade, and support for business. I do not recognize today's party and am disgusted by Trump. He is a fraud and a charlatan. While I never agree with Mark Shields, I respect his opinions and he makes think about other perspectives. I find myself in nearly complete agreement with David Brooks as his struggles with today's Republican/Trumpian values mirror my own. Please bring them both back for the election coverage.

Why do you keep lying? It is bad enough that we have to pay taxes to support a left-wing group. This woman Breonna Taylor.. The Attorney General for Kentucky went through the facts from the grand jury, not from a police internal report that you view as skewed. The guy that shot the cops admits that he shot first. The cops returned fire. It was not a no-knock warrant. You keep repeating that no-knock warrant mantra over and over. You just let these things go and you don't challenge it when you get people you're interviewing that lie. You don't question them. You don't bring up the other side. You don't bring up independent facts. This Breonna thing is turning into a riot now because people are operating under a bunch of false assumptions - that it was a no-knock warrant. The paperwork did not say that. The paperwork said that it was a knock and announce warrant and there were independent people that were not related to the police that corroborated that they heard the police. You guys enjoy putting fuel on the fire. People die and get injured because of it. There's blood on your hands. You do it for your liberal agenda and to stir up interest in your show. It's disgusting. 

Lately, the more I see Judy Woodruff's interviews the more frustated I get with how she gets manipulated by the interviewee! Just watched Tim Murtaugh (Trump Communications Director) on the News Hour. So very disappointed again to see Judy Woodruff allow a political operative not answer questions and lie nonstop. And so frustrated to see Judy Woodruff afraid of interrupting and looking so timid and frightened. Why wouldn't she challenge Mr. Murtaugh's assertions? Can we get another person to do real interviews: hard questions, press to get answers, and control the air time!? Please!!

many of comments on pbs is in their opinion you lean left. No facts provided just opinions, conservatives want pbs to become like talk radion which is 91% conservative. I appreciate facts not biased opinions, Who balances conservative hoover?

npr whyy is not doing a fair job of reporting the news at all. it is liberal and keeps all information on conservative views off the air.i am referring to the radio broadcasts. i have complained alot to whyy radio statoin and nothinog ever changs.it is so violently liberal and so slanted and biased that it definitely needs to be looked at. i dont think taxpayer shoudl be forced to support such a biased, slanted radio program as npr whyy . does it come ouit of boston, a knoiwn liberal state. it continually has a political leader of one stripe discussing a situation with never someone o fthe opposite view to bring clarity to the situation and event. it presents one liberal side continually. this radio station should lose its funding from taxpoayers, becasue it is not presenting both sides of an issue. it is slanted and biased and needs poblic money taken from it entirely. let the liberals support it if they want such a biased radio programming.

I have watched (and supported) our local public TV channel (Ch. 9 KQED) here in the SF Bay Area for nearly 50 years. Judy Woodruff has had a long and distinguished career. So it pains me to urge you to see her into retirement. She has lost her edge; her engagement with others is no longer crisp and smart as it should be. She is simply too old to do the job effectively. I am 82 so I think I know a little about age. With all due respect, please encourage her to turn the hosting of the nightly show over to a younger person--and there are a great many of those who appear nightly with her who could succeed in that position--perhaps co-hosting with Hari Shrinivasan? He is outstanding in his hosting of the weekend program. Thank you

I'm reading your website and under "who you are" there's a list of things that are lettered that say "achieve our goals." Item C says you want to "produce high-quality content, including news and information, that is accurate, fair, balanced, objective." I just really want to know if you believe that. After watching the Republican and Democratic conventions, I was appalled at the prejudice. During the Democratic Conventions, everyone was kissing up to the speakers, saying how wonderful they are, all your pundits and commentators. During the Republican Convention, it was absolutely and totally critical. That can't possibly be fair and balanced reporting. I think it's a disgrace. From now on, when we do something political like that, please keep your commentators out of the action or put in a balance of conservative and liberal commentators. We are totally disgusted with PBS these days. 

CPB is the group that should be "defunded". How can you allow NPR & PBS go on and on about being fair & unbiased when they so strongly support the left. News Hour & Washington Week are now just Democrat advocates & Trump bashers. JR Nott Grand Island, NE

I have been watching the News Hour for over twenty years but I can’t remember a time where the news are so biased against Trump and the Republican Party. Judy Woodruff does not miss an opportunity to chastise both. It is so obvious that is ridiculous. No wonder I hear the president wants to defund you. I really miss Gwen Ifill and Jim Lehrer. Please correct for the country’s sake.

My husband and I are appalled that you are using children's shows to push socialism and leftist information. The riots in Portland have ruined a once beautiful city. We are offended that anyone thinks this is ok! We are canceling our membership to OPB PBS.

I love PBS, but News Hour needs to stop leaning to the left and get it to the center. I'll give one example from yesterdays program, when talking about the presidents response to the protesters that were shout by that young man they said he shot the protesters but failed to mention that they were attacking him and said the president was defending the action, but he said it was under investigation. The people need to hear both sides. If they are unable to do that, then PBS should have their funding taken away. As it stands now, News Hour is a waste of tax payer dollars. Just so you know, I voted for Clinton the last election and I'm leaning towards Biden for the up coming election.

again, i call bias. You are using the words of trump's niece, clearly anti-trump and selling a book. Meanwhile, poor little Joey(?) Let's all grab the kleenex. Let's all also remember he has been in office 47 yrs! Rich beyond means b/c he is a career politician...oh but poor poor Joe! This is PBS showing their true blue colors.

For many years I had appreciated the professionalism of The PBS Newshour management and staff. Both McNeil and Jim Lehrer had an uncanny ability to facilitate the contrasting or opposing views of their numerous expert analysts. Unfortunately, those days are long gone. The managing editor Ms. Judy Woodruff does not particularly care to host much in the way of contrasting/opposing perspectives either as expert analysts or as her correspondents. There are other reasons why the PBS Newshour has deteriorated in quality. I do not have time to go into detail. The following staff are a detriment to the program and should be replaced:

Ms. Judy Woodruff: She worked with McNeil and Lehrer and was very familiar with the objective philosophy prevalent at PBS at The Newshour. Apparently she has elected to change horses in mid-stream to a highly partisan one sided and bigoted production exemplified by her poor choice of correspondents, specifically:

Lisa DesJardin- Her family has donated how much money to CPB and PBS. Partisan Correspondent with poor journalistic skills.

Y. Alcindor-Partisan Correspondent with poor journalistic skills.

Shields and Brooks- Obsolete Editorials Infuriatingly one sided partisan, lacks fairness and objectivity.

The only one who does a good job consistently in Miles O' Brien. He should be made interim Managing Editor. Let Woodruff stay under the condition she goes back to the way she interviewed during the time of The McNeil Lehrer Newshour and replace all of the rest

I am deeply concerned that NPR is running articles for a pro-Looting book entitled "In Defense of Looting". The title is not ironic or sarcastic like "In Praise of Folly" or something, which is what I thought before paging through the book's sample pages on Amazon. I thought this might have been something like that at first. It's not. The book literally advocates theft and rioting, and among other things that make no sense, claims private property is racist, which doesn't even make sense from an Anarchist perspective, since property just wouldn't exist. "Property is theft" is the line from Proudhoun, if I recall. I'm a lifelong liberal, and social justice advocate (I taught in the prisons and I have a program for undeserved adult learners), but this is just absurd. I can't believe taxes are funding this trash.

Here's the article. I would have thought the person who sent me the link was lying, as well.

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/08/27/906642178/one-authors-argument-in-defense-of-looting

You need to address this. ASAP.

I already have to worry about COVID-19 and how little the gov't did, now I have to worry about intermittent riots and my tax dollars doing PR work for rioters? Thanks, no.

I'm also writing my congressman and senator. I have listened to cartalk for years and I know NPR has had fine shows, and am a huge believer in public programming, but this is just appalling. I think the total and complete lack of standards needs to be addressed and they need to stop promoting violent, insane anarchists who advocate crimes if they want public monies. These types of maniacs are going to get Trump re-elected and get public broadcasting defunded.

For the love of God, take care of this. I enjoy watching Neil Coward and Broadway on PBS. I'd like to continue to do so.

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I am a devoted viewer of PBS. I watch PBS because I learn so much and very much respect Judy Woodruff and other journalists and analysts who work closely with Judy Woodruff. I wanted to see if any assistance could be provided by Judy Woodruff and all involved who critiqued the very disturbing outcome of the debate. Simply asking that the Presidential Debates are handled with more decorum . Chris Wallace represented Fox but it seemed he lost ability to control racial slurs and constant interruptions made by President Trump . As a result, extra time was made for him at Biden’s and the viewers expense. President Trump should have been disqualified . He violated every rule of diplomacy in a debate. Wallace tried to set limits but failed . Perhaps a new rule to Turn individual microphones on for time granted and when time is up , turn it off. If not abided by , he should have lost his turn. At least Vice President Biden did more to explain facts with less time allowed. Once again President Trump got the attention he so desperately needs. To him that is a “Win”. He does not have what it takes to be a responsible or respectable President. Less viewers will want to see more debates after the first one tonight if this is all we can expect. People will not be educated and may not vote. I want everyone to vote, and I want to have hope that there are better days ahead. Respectfully, Barbara Branigan Broderick

What a biased program - the announcer used slippery language to fault the Republicans for refusing to approve the skinny pandemic bill when it was actually the Democrats. Appalling. Can't you hire real journalists?

Why do you play bad shows during pledge time? It doesn’t cause me to pledge. In fact, when I see one of these “infomercials” with someone selling the latest diet book or most nutritious eating plan, I just turn the channel. I just want to see the regular shows, or maybe a ballet. Really, are these informercials all you can come up with?

For the next president debate, unless it’s the candidate’s two minute turn their microphones should be muted.

At end of program there was a short piece encouraging children to pick up pine cones to use in a variety of different ways. Although that is excellent to suggest, many creatures hide out in pinecones, especially scorpions in the South. This could be very hazardous to young children and you should encourage kids to have parents check the cones out before they smell, paint, and take apart the cones. Thank you

PBS is nothing more than a Propaganda Broadcast System, continually hard left leaning. Trying to twist the true facts of what's happening in this country, one example is, agreeing with looting, burning police cars, blocking off city streets, and shooting anyone who crosses that line. Polluting our kids mind with socialist ideas thru cartoons etc. Continually harping on slavery, which ended over 155 years ago, but bringing it up like it happened yesterday. Continually bashing President Trump, and hailing the left who seriously want to take our 1st &2nd amendment rights away. PBS is not the true educational television it once was. They report the news then have someone to spin it trying to make something out of it that its not. If their going to report the news, report it and leave the commentaries out. I recently cut the cord of dish tv, live way out in the country and my antenna only pickup pbs, and I was shocked at how far left or socialist/ communist PBS has become. They spin everything to the hard left, then try and make it sound true. I' m really disgusted at what PBS is doing. Agreeing with a terrorist group antifa/ BLM? Its just unbeleivable. I mean if the whites in this country are so racist as PBS claims, then how did a black person ever get elected president? Its as if their continually trying to stir up something.

I'm trying to get something put on the news about a nursing home that is neglecting their patients. There's lots of reviews on the place. 

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PBS Newshour is awesome in reporting. I love to watch it via YouTube, because I live abroad

Sincerely yours, Ivo Sesnic

Thank you for all the fine work you do on NPR and on public television . Informative, inspiring, and entertaining.

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Of all the news organizations I am most disappointed in PBS. You are not anywhere near balanced. Your hate of Trump is readily seen in your reporting. My belief in PBS as fallen to zero. Get right and at least be balanced. Get rid of the old guys and get people that can actual report facts and let the audience provide the evaluation.Your reporters are junior grade. Have a Republican report on Trump as well as your not very bright reporters. McNeil and Learer would be disappointed in where you have taken PBS

I was very disappointed with your coverage of the republican convention. To interrupt speeches, to inject opinion or to redirect the message is wrong. Provide the coverage and allow people to formulate their own opinions. I watch alot of news and most on PBS but there is never an opposing view point. Washington Week is especially guilty. The BBC has also become more bias. As a periodic contributor to public television I will consider redirecting my contributions.

Respectfully, Ciro DiDonato

I enjoy watching the PBS newshour regularly. Judy's coverage on 8/19/20 was poor -- we need less talking heads (panel of experts!) and more uninterrupted coverage of the convention. She continued to interview PBS talking heads throughout the night rather than show the audience what was happening at the convention. During performances, videos, etc. -- your coverage was more about PBS than the democratic convention. Please reconsider -- I don't care what talking heads have to say until the end of the evening!

I was very unhappy with the coverage of the RNC as well as the DNC. We do not need a panel discussion and comments after every speaker. I would like something that just had the information and let us figure it out. For public broadcasting to manipulate the content by having the discussion and not having more content. Some of those speakers we did not get to see. I had to go to other links in order to try to ascertain that coverage. For me a public broadcasting system should be able to do that, especially for something like the RNC or the DNC. I personally do not need to have it spoonfed to me. I just want the facts. 

I'm watching "Travels to the Edge - with Art Wolfe" right now and I'm very disappointed because he is riding an elephant. My husband and I went to Thailand a few years ago and riding elephants is strictly forbidden there. It's very cruel because the frames that they put on them are made out of metal. There are three men riding on the elephant. How could Art Wolfe not know that it is not okay to ride on an elephant?

Why do you air this lying republicans they're all a bunch of crooks an liers. Cannot wait tell they all kicked out of the white house . lying trump and all republicans get out.

Mark Shields. Please retire and allow the next generation to take on the mantel of liberal Democrat. I'm sorry, but it is more and more difficult to listen to your halting sentences. I just watched the latest 8/28/20 broadcast. Besides your difficulties in expressing a thought, I am appalled that you take up the Republican line about violence and law and order. If you are so sure about the horrors of Portland, please come and take an actual look. I live in Oregon and though the anarchists are good at spoiling legitimate protests, their actions are as much a distraction to the genuine calls for a just society as are the screeching about law and order from Trump. Leave Republican views and talking points to the Republicans if you are going to assign yourself the role of a liberal in an argument. And really, it's time to let a younger liberal voice take on the roll for the Newshour... Besides all that, I have really appreciated you through the years. Garth Cheff

Stop causing divisiveness with children and stop trying to indoctrinate my children with taxpayer money. This is enough. 

I want you to know that I am thoroughly disgusted I got from listening to the woman who kept everything together. She is very good at APPEARING not to have bias. But it was subtlety apparent that she does. She has that right but not on national tv, not while covering the political party she is in opposition to! She was very cunning. However, I have to say that the people she talked with seemed to be somewhat complimentary to the convention speakers even though she tried to shoot down or water down what they were saying. There was one person in her camp that tried to keep a fairness going in her reporting. She is black and wears black-framed glasses. Sorry, I cannot recall her name.

We love NPR and PBS..... most of the time. Until they get political, which is a lot more often these days. Since some of my tax dollars go to support NPR and PBS, I have a couple of questions that I would like to get answers to. What is the mission statement and or the ethical guidelines for new reporting. If these are publicly supported entities, are they supposed to strive for objective non partition reporting and commentary? If so, why did most of the commentators making comments after the various speeches at the Democrat convention have mostly glowing commentary about the various talks at the Democrat convention and mostly negative comments after the Republican convention speakers. One has to wonder if there is significant bias in NPR and PBS news reporting. If so, is this what you want this organization to be known for? Maybe you the board are OK with that. If so, can you at least put a disclaimer on your news reporting? I have a suggestion....particularly when it comes to something like the conventions. Do NOT make comments after the talks. Let the public decide. Unless you think the public is stupid, the public does not need your commentators to pick apart every speech.

PBS and NPR have complained a lot about foreign entities manipulating our elections. If the goal of NPR and PBS is to manipulate the vote, are they not just as guilty as a foreign power trying to manipulate the way Americans vote? Would not your board and NPR and PBS be hypocrites when they complain about foreign interference in our elections when you yourselves are trying to manipulate the vote?. We who love NPR and PBS expect better of you....unless of course, it is your goal to influence our elections, then just admit it Inquiring minds would like to know your answers to these questions. We look forward to your reply.

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I usually watch PBS but now I realize how biased you guys are. Shields is talking about how great Harris is and everything of that sort. They're not coming out with any of the truth on this. Got to find a news station now. 

Is there a forum where I can file a complaint about Yamiche Alcindor? I assume that she gets paid via taxpayer dollars?

I am deeply saddened at this person's condemnation of a quadriplegic man who is expressing his opinion.

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Soo disappointed in Judy woodruff and others reporting the news, I will stop watching as you are becoming progressively more biased against trump, reporting mostly ,only on occasion conservative viewpoints,crushing most of them to your liberal agenda so advantage. You lost the respect and integrity you once enjoyed by most viewers, what a shame,you should join msnbc and cnn, you are not much better.

The woman who has recently delivered the news in the last week or so drones and is boring to listen to. Also, why does Judy move her hands so much? It is distracting and needs to be off video if she can't control it.

I want you to get this message to Yamiche Alcindor. Tell her, first of all, I'm white, since she bases everything on color. Tell her she's a pathetic soul. She doesn't represent women in this country. She doesn't represent men. Tell her I'll never put my fist in the air for "white silence is violence." That's not correct. She's wrong. I will stand for the pledge of allegiance. I will stand for the national anthem. My family will, our friends will, our neighbors will. Tell her she's wrong. I don't like that. Because I don't like it, she needs to listen. Black lives matter doesn't matter at all. All lives matter. Black Lives Matter is a Marxist group, a communist group, an oppression group. Is she for slavery? Tell her she has a hell of a nerve. She has no talent. She has a filthy mouth. Tell her to leave the country. Why doesn't she go to North Korea or Japan? Tell her I don't like her and tell her that I'm an average American and that I'm better educated than she is. Tell her she's a loser and she is a weak woman. She doesn't represent any people in this country except this country except the Marxists that feel the same way. Nobody wants them and nobody cares to hear from them. Make sure you pass this message on to her because its how the majority of Americans feel. You'd never know this from PBS, or CNN or MSNBC. They're all clowns and a disgrace and an insult to the intelligence of Americans. I am voting for President Trump, our whole family is, neighbors, friends, everybody is voting for President Trump. The Democrats, the Communists - they'll have to cheat. They'll have to have mail in ballots. That speaks volumes. Have a good day. 

I'm proud of Judy Woodruff for asking Nancy Pelosi a "soft-tough" question about the flexibility regarding lawmakers negotiating a so-called "Phase 4" coronavirus aid bill. I'd like to see more tough questions asked. It's called journalism. Thanks.

Watched at 8pm,turned to ABC at 9pm when their coverage started. It was awful the way you cut away from black Democrat supporting PRES for your own bias reporting Boo!!

I watched the Democratic Convention for four days and the Republican Convention for three days. I can not believe the bias of all the contributors. You must have a dozen leftsts, Democrats, liberals. Everything on the Democratic was wonderful and powerful form Obama and so forth. Basically everything that the Republicans have done is dark and stark. Yamiche is unbelievable. Criticizing and criticizing. You do not have a conservative out of twelve people that are making comments. Judy Woodruff doesn't even know where she's at. She's too old to host. She doesn't ask questions. She sets up a question for her contributors to say something that she wants to hear. I'm amazed. It's so blatantly obvious. Mark Shields, the self proclaimed conservative from the New York Times and Canada. The people on the show are all so biased. It is unbelievable. I'd like hear you all explain your coverage of the Republican National Convention. 

Yamiche Alcindor has been adding editorial comments and opinion to her reporting of the Trump Whitehouse for sometime. Ms. Alcindor’s diction and rushed elocution is very difficult to understand-she talks way to fast To be understood clearly. Her editorializing damages PBSs very high standard of excellent journalism. I contribute to PBS and I love The PBS News Hour with all my heart. I urge you to replace Ms. Alcindor with any of your excellent reporters. I thank you so very much for the important work you do. It is vital to our democracy. Please keep up the great job.

Please stop the completely biased coverage of the RNC. You spend all your air time with commentary from your biased reporters to your guest commentators. You spent last week glorifying Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and this weeks started with calling Donald Trump a Racist. There has to be some middle with all the public dollars that support this program PBS Newshour. Please stop the fall to the extreme left. You’ve officially become the mouthpiece for the Democrats. Disgusting news and reporting

For some time, I've perceived Yamiche Alcindor, from her reports and questions at the White House, has a political bias and a double standard. Her tweet knocking that paralyzed fellow, Congressional candidate Cawthorn, for standing for the American flag at the RNC validates my perception. It's a sad and shame that journalism has morphed into a political agenda. I suggest she be assigned to be report nonpolitical subjects such as technology, finance, travel, family, etc.. This about the third time that it has happened her. I'm sure she's a nice person. I'm an independent voter. I watched both the Democrats and the Republicans. I thought her tweet was not appropriate. 

As a listener since college and now for over 25 yrs, I was a fan and past financial supporter of NPR. I am a moderate who crossed party lines. Now, after years of naked leftist bias, I am repulsed and revolted by most NPR programs (Morning Ed., All Things Considered, Here and Now, Fresh Air, many podcasts) and nearly, without exaggeration, all the time. Public dollars can not be spent promoting the unbalanced and even anti-American programming (ref Hiroshima bombing coverage).The bias is evident in the topics, adjectives chosen, editorial comments/exchanges between hosts, & sound bites -- simply throughout every show, broadcast and segment. More than other factors, NPRs slant has repulsed me to the right. The label of depressing/negative "fear mongering" is also apt. CPB, your charter is "quality content". Permanent political slant is the poorest of quality and even dangerous.

A past friend of NPR, I am now an opponent.

Your strange editorial reply on Feedback to similar comments is nonsensical.

I've never seen such a biased one-sided presentation of a news happening than PBS has done this week with the Republican National Convention. I watched your network last week and watched you fawn and drool all over the Democrats for four nights in a row for two to three hours every night. When they had a good feed coming you went right to their feed and stayed on it till their speaker finished and then came back and talked about it. I noticed you let very few Republican speakers through. It's mostly the talking heads. You've got two panels with four people on each panel. Three of the four are leftists with one token Republican and then you've got Judy Woodruff who leans sorta left with Amy who also leans sorta left. It's basically twelve people to two. That's how one-sided, lop-sided and biased your coverage is. And one of the worst is Cynthia Tucker. She is just a foul mouth leftist. Yamiche Alcindor is even worse than her. Even Michael has become an outright leftist. The fact that you guys take tax money from the United States taxpayers and then put out this one-sided diatribe leads me to believe its time to take public funding away from you guys. You should be embarrassed. I'm watching C-span so I don't have to listen to the leftist talking heads that you put out there every damn night. How can you guys call yourself journalists? How do you guys sleep at night. 

I just want to compliment PBS on their obviously increased coverage of black lives matter. I am 91 years old, white and have lived here forever. I am so glad to see more coverage from PBS. 

Love Yamiche Alcindor’s reporting, but please slow down and enunciate!!!

I so strongly disagree with comments purporting to find Yamiche Alcindor and others on your team as leftist. She is a reporter who bends over backwards to serve her profession. Judy Woodruff is the epitome of professionalism. I have watched and respected her for at least 30 years. However, the two analysts Amy Walter and Tamara Keith are so cautious that they come across as milktoasts simply repeating the obvious to anyone who has been awake during the day. Give them more rein to speak or find women with more creativity and courage.. I never learn anything new from them nor retain anything quotable.

I chose to watch the PBS coverage because I was hoping it would not be biased. I was mistaken. It was overwhelmingly critical of Trump and biased toward Democrats. So disappointed. Can we trust any media outlet to be fair.

Over the past year PBS has shown its true color...Communist RED. Good old Arthur might as well have “CCP” tattooed on his forehead. That segment on the BLM was the last straw. I find your “Read-Along with PBS Kids” to be particularly OFFENSIVE. It should be called “Communist indoctrination Time with the Commie of the Week”.

This attempted Marxist brainwashing is going to stop. You and your comrads need to take a one way flight to Beijing. Also, take that racist toad Yamiche Alcindor, with you.

I have lots of time and I will be devoting it to contacting every person in DC who has control over PBS funding. I know that I won’t be alone in demanding that all taxpayer funding, of your dirty little Commie indoctrination network ( all 1500+ radio and TV stations), cease immediately. I will contact these people direct since I am absolutely positive that you will not include the comments on this form in any report to the White House, Congress or on the internet.

I use to respect the reporting of Public Broadcasting. I can't believe how biased they are. Why is the government still funding this entity.

I thought this was a 24-hour telephone line. I don't know how much public money is going into public broadcasting, but my father would be 92 years old and he helped build PBS in several states. It is appalling and absurd to watch Judy Woodruff and Yamiche. I'm filing an FOIA request and it's going to the public broadcasting company where I live and its going into Washington DC. You people think you can get away with trying to hide what you are. It's sickening to watch that people put money into public broadcasting. You take people's money and they're so stupid that they don't understand what you are. I am going to get to the bottom of what you people are tying to do. Taking public money and pushing an agenda. Most of it is lies and crap. I will go on any program and I will debate that old windbag Woodruff and the rest of those clowns are all liberals. That is what they are. I will being filing major FOIA requests. If I don't get an answer in thirty days I will be going to my Congressman and my Senator to find out why public money is going to push this agenda of these radical, nutcase, leftwing Democrats. 

Too many talking heads. Missed farmer and young woman's stories. Woodruff too much talking. Not about her. Switched to CNN.

The News Hour has become increasingly partisan in tone. Yamiche Alcindor might as well be on MSNBC. Her tweet on Madison Cawthorn was unprofessional and uncalled for. Viewers do not need her to tell them what and how to think about something they can see and hear for themselves. I have written my representatives urging that the CPB be defunded. I’m sure you will survive just fine without taxpayer subsidies

Judy Wudruff is no longer a reliable source of objective reporting. Her willingness to steer Left and push the Democrat agenda has become more and more obvious. Her apparent hatred for Trump is revealing itself in the tonality and discourse during interviews. I once relied on PBS for news, It's a shame that is no longer possible. Clearly Biased Opinion / No Longer News Reporting / Woodruff .... would love to see PBS return to actual news reporting .. i am holding out hope !

I am an avid reader and researcher- in find that Judy Woodruffs characterization of a non violent protest is way off the mark--PBS along with the controlled American media is misleading the public badly, Biden has been shielded from the public and protected by the media whores-the country is headed towards anarchy-and most of this chaos was manipulated by the DNC whose agenda was to defeat Donald Trump either before or after the election-Congress has failed in its sworn mandate to defend and protect US we the people-The GOP has not done much better- i rely on FOREIGN media for reporting accuracy-The people know and understand that neither party represents the constituency-we have turned into a fascist ologarchy, whose objection the public manifested itself in the ignition of a national rebellion over the George Floyd murder- and now worsened by gun wielding cops who have yet murdered 3 more of the public--Military complex [warned aboit byb Eisenhauer] is running this country into war--WE WILL NOT ABIDE WITH THESE ACTIONS-as well now we learn that this pandemic was LABORATORY CREATED IN THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA-CHAPEL HILL --AND HARDENED IN GREAT BRITAIN--WE WILL FIND THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE ENGAGED IN GENOCIDE, AND WE WILL DEAL NWITH THEM THAT LEGAL PROCESS IS ALREADY UNDERWAY--NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW NOT EVEN POLITICAL PARTIES IN AND OUT OF OFFICE--WE WILL TAKE OUR. COUNTRY BACK WITH OR WITHOUT YOUR HELP--IS THEIR NON SHAME ON YOUR PART FOR CONTRIBUTING TO THE CHAOS WE NOW EXPERIENCE? MILT FARROW

Ms Alcindor is a talented reporter. Alas, her tv delivery needs work. She speaks too fast. Often her comments are garbled and difficult to follow. Does she review her on- screen performance? Does anyone? It's a simple fix. Just slow down, modulate and articulate so we the vieeres can follow your reporting.

I admire and respect Mark Shields. His insight is very important and thorough. I always learn something new. Will someone please inform him that Kamala Harris's first name is pronounced like "Commala" with the first part of her name pronounced like the punctuation mark rather than "Kamala" (short "a")? Thank you!

YOUR GUEST IS SO WRONG TO BLAME TRUMP FOR DIVIDING THE COUNTRY.....THOSE WHO HAVE REFUSED TO ACCEPT HIS 2016 LEGITIMATE ELECTION AND HAVE TRIED EVERY DIRTY TRICK TO GET RID OF HIM ARE DIVIDING THE COUNTRY. HAD HE BEEN ACCEPTED AS THE LEGITIMATELY ELECTED PRESIDENT -WHICH HE IS - AND HAD THOSE WHO OPPOSE HIM SPENT THEIR TIME DETERMINING WHY THEY LOST AND SPENT THEIR TIME CONSTRUCTIVELY OVERHAULING THEIR PARTY TO SERVE THE NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE, THEY MIGHT BE IN S BETTER POSITION TO ACHIEVE A WIN AGAIN. THEY ARE SO OUT OF TOUCH WITH THE NEEDS OF AMERICANS THAT YOU COULD NEVER GET ME TO CONSIDER VOTING FOR THEM. THEIR ANTICS HAVE BEEN AND CONTINUE TO BE DEPLORABLE. FROM THE PHONY RUSSIAN HOAX, TO THE ILLEGITIMATE MULLER INVESTIGATION TO THE PHONY IMPEACHMENT TRIALS TO BLAMING TRUMP FOR EVERYTHING THAT IS WRONG WITH AMERICA, THEY HAVE KEPT THIS COUNTRY IN TURMOIL. NEVER HAS A DULY ELECTED PRESIDENT BEEN TREATED SO UNFAIRLY. HE HAS ACCOMPLISHED MORE GOOD FOR THIS COUNTRY IN HIS FIRST TERM THAN ANY PRESIDENT IN MY LIFE TIME. AM 77 AND HAVE FOLLOWED POLITICS WITH AN OPEN MIND ALL OF MY ADULT YEARS. ANYONE WITH AN OUNCE OF COMMON SENSE AND A DECENT MIND KNOWS THAT IF YOU TREAT PEOPLE BADLY YOU ARE SETTING UP YOUR FOLLOWERS TO DO THE SAME....SO THANKS TO THE DEMS AND THE ILLEGITIMATE MEDIA YOU HAVE THOSE WHO SUPPORT TRUMP BEHAVING LIKE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN AND THOSE WHO DID NOT SUPPORT TRUMP TREATING TRUMP AND HALF THE POPULATION OF THE USA DEPLORABLY. I'M SICK OF THE MESS. TRUMP SHOULD BE REELECTED AND THOSE WHO CANNOT ACCEPT HIS RE-ELECTION SHOULD KEEP THEIR MOUTHS SHUT OR GO FIND ANOTHER COUNTRY TO RUIN!

Why buskirk the Fox News commentator on the program tonight and why is he given time for his opinion rather than the actual program. If I want to watch news I can choose to do so. I don’t appreciate on PBS that I hope I can hold in esteem tomorrow if not today.

I am sitting here in my living room in Memphis, Tennessee and watching the PBS news that is on tonight. If this is a public broadcasting station, why are you being political? Why are you being political and rallying around the Democrats. You need to get off the air. Stop lying. You are not a public broadcasting station. 

COVID 19 TASTES GOOD LIKE A PANDEMIC SHOULD

The question of whether or not there are "Nazis in the Whitehouse” is better asked "Today, as opposed to the end of World War II, how MANY Nazis do we have in the Whitehouse and what are they doing there?”

Nazi COVID 19 plan COULD BE to do the opposite of 1933 and to go for the non-essential children and young adults last.

The American Nazis aren’t worried. Their PLAN to kill 6.5 billion 'useless eaters'.

Why don't you report AGENDA 21?

Hi - Please forward to Mark Shields at the Newshour.

Dear Mr. Shields,

I have been an admirer of your work for decades. You seemed a little down on tonight's Newshour. Hopefully you and your family are doing well; I will pray that you all stay safe and healthy.

Esther Colwell

I am a 80 yr old who has heard many versions of our national anthem over the years. However, the performance last night by Mandy Gonzalez on A Capitol 4th was so good it gave me goose bumps and brought tears to my eyes. Fortunately it was near the beginning so I could hear it a second time as repeated the broadcast.

Please send her my best. Stephen Meskin

I've been a PBS subscriber and I've supported PBS and watched the NewsHour my entire life. I'm a little disturbed by what I've seen more recently. What I'm seeing could only be called virtual signaling, very extreme left virtue signaling. One of the specifics about that is Black Lives Matter. They basically are falling all over themselves, even with anchors saying, "we support Black Lives Matter." A news organization shouldn't support anyone. While I absolutely agree with the hashtag black lives matter, the organization itself is a very radical left organization. The people funding them are extremist Marxist radicals. You have done nothing to research that and bring that out into the public. The reality is they're a project of a group, you can find this online, that is Thousand Currents. Two of the leaders of that group were a part of the Weather Underground. One had a 56 years jail term for bombings during the 70s, a sentence that was commuted by Bill Clinton. The other had a 16 year sentence for similar activities. The Black Lives Matter organization is a project of this. They are an extreme Marxist group. You are pandering to the extreme left, which I've never seen the NewsHour do before. I'm disgusted by it. I think you've handled the right pretty fairly as far as exposing the extremes on the right. When it comes to the left, you seem to be more and more blinded every single day and your reporting seems to be more and more pandering to extreme right viewpoints. That is something you need to check or else I'll stop watching.

I rely on PBS news programs to give me unbiased accounts of factual events and information. This is why I urge PBS to do a better job of locating accurate stock footage to accompany stories in order to avoid the appearance of bias towards people of color. For example, on the Monday, July 20, 2020 broadcast of the PBS Newshour, a story by Amna Nawaz about the first Covid-19 case in the US began with a stock photo of an African American man on a gurney in front of an ambulance, followed by a photo of a different African American man in front of a hospital. The story was about the first covid case in the US which was a 35 year-old white male from Washington state. The photos of African Americans at the beginning of this story were misleading and unfair. PBS news programs can and should do a better job of finding photos and videos that more accurately match the events and information being reported so that viewers don't connect negatively to people of color, especially African Americans. If no stock footage is available, it would make sense to show the location to the viewers. Images of the US minority population should not account for the majority of images seen on the news in connection with negative events such as disease, crime and poverty. I ask the PBS Newshour to take a closer look at how people of color are portrayed on their platform. Thank you.

I have not been able to financially support PBS for some time now due to the level of bias that is displayed on the NewsHour. There is no objectivity in their reporting, and the disdain they have for the president is obvious. I will be watching on election night only to watch how they try to control themselves from crying after the president gets re-elected.

Shame on you. Up until a few days ago I could watch the news via the Fire stick/PBS app almost in real time. Now the current day's broadcast is showing up 2-3 hours later than available on broadcast. This in no way shape or form inspires me to donate to public broadcasting.

I’ve been watching PBS News Hour for many years. Many of my friends and family have stopped watching because they believe it only airs one side politically but I refused to listen until tonight. It saddens me to see the bias so clearly. I live in Oregon and have been following the events in Portland closely. I can’t understand how all four of the reporters got the story wrong in such a identical way. It is widely understood by people living in the Portland area that there are two separate events going on. There are the demonstrators who know to go home sometime after dark because they know the night shift comes on around 11:00pm. The night shift are the rioters. Also Mayor Wheeler in an interview stated he didn’t want federal law enforcement to leave. He just wants them to stay inside the Justice Building. This is very different from this evenings report. The only explanation is that PBS News Hour was pushing a narrative. I will not watch again.

Why on earth would you give Peter Navarro a soapbox? He didn’t answer Judy’s questions. Why didn’t she cut him off?

The Suite Life of Zack and Cody was kinda weird...

Hello. I watch Judy Woodruff and I am almost stricken with Mark Shields inability to hold to the subject and the way he wonders. Is there anything you can do to help him with his elderlyness and his message. He is no longer a good reciprocal partner with David Brooks and doesn't even begin to meet the intellectual capacity of Brooks.

You are funded primarily with 445 mil. federal tax dollars. You allow very left leaning programs much politically charged with the Democratic agenda As a tax payer I resent the use of tax dollars to allow any political content unless it is documented truth, not someones personal take on any situation, or a sometimes not so subtle condemnation of the present administration The only reason I have at all for watching PBS is some of the BBC's better offerings , in deference to a political hack or four bozos with big hats, cowboy boats and a guitar to fill the void.

WILL THE CPB REPORT RIOT SHOOTING PEOPLE IN THEIR CARS

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for reading my comments. 07/24 I turned 65, a 20-year resident of Wyoming. What happened? Where is journalism without left bias? Report the news and let me decide thank you very much; we’re not idiots that need you to explain it to us.

Last year while in Gothenburg, Sweden I visited the Rohsska museum. . They had a an exhibition concerning the environment. I watched a film there about the life of a plastic bag.