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
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PBS News
This is for the PBS public television. You are destroying America with your news you are putting on with this hatred for Republicans and for Trump. What I just turned on just now was so unbelievable - not allowed to say Trump's name because he is so bad. The nation is tired of it. They are mad with everything that is going on and you are throwing this in your face. There are 80 million people who voted for him. You gotta remember that. Half and Half. Not all Biden. This has to stop. Judy Woodruff is one of the worst news anchors I've seen outside of CNN. I want to hear both sides, not just one hateful side. You hate United States citizens. That's what they are - United States citizens. I'm not a Biden or a Trump, I'm a libertarian. I want whoever is going to work in there. Biden, in his first twenty days, destroyed America. You destroyed 80 million Republicans with your biased news. I will never send money to you again unless you get both sides on this. Every single night you have Judy Woodruff and that other girl who hate Republicans and hate Trump. He's a human being, he's a citizen and he does not need to be treated like this. Nobody needs to be treated like this. You and your public, federal television are destroying the United States of America. You shouldn't be biased. I don't think any money should be going to you. I am so sick and tired of this. You've got to bring the United States together and Biden is not doing it, but your news people can do it if they tell the truth. Quit lying through your teeth.
American Experience
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.
Finding Your Roots
If I have to hear Henry Louis Gates ask the question one more time “ how do you feel about that.” I am going to scream. I am tired of the fact that this program always target the ancestors who were slave holders, or who had mixed race roots most probably due to rape, to the exclusion of all other ancestors that could be researched and discussed on the program. This show is not about genealogy but is about the mission of Henry Louis Gates and I am sick and tired of it. As a genealogist, this program has become very tiresome and I may never watch it again. The way you let Gates engineer this show is turning myself and my fellow genealogists off. If tax dollars are being used for this show, then there needs to be a better balance. The show with Pharrell Williams was the worst. Stop playing politics with this show.
Weekly Bias
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.
Cost of Passport
As a disabled individual with a brain injury I find your policy requiring a minimum $60 yearly donation to qualify for your passport member benefit on PBS Video a burden and impossible to afford. Why not have a donation sliding scale for such matters? The amount i can afford in relation to my severely limited income would equal what your regular folk would pay. As a non profit surely you can relate to my and others’ struggle.
Conspiracy Theory Reports Are NOT Truthful /Apply Science Model for Theory in Public Broadcasting in News
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)
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Aubrey Neas
Newshour
As someone who has been watching the Newshour since the early 1980s, I am dimly tired of listening to Judy Woodruff. She is competent and articulate, but change is needed, especially if the Newshour wants to be attractive to an audience younger than 60somethings. Just hire Lisa Desjardans! She has smarts, youth, and warmth on her side.
Frontline: Trump's American Carnage
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.
PBS
I was wondering if this was PBS. I think you're very liberal. I don't think it's fair and I think Paris is a piece of sh**.
PBS NewsHour
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.
Objectivity
Enjoy the PBS News Hour. Watch it daily but am concerned that while hateful, incorrect, anti-Semitic troves made by Republican officials are censored the same is not true in regard to the Democrats. Some have called Jews termites, others talked about “following the Benjamin’s”. Is this not equally despicable?
PBS Website should provide national information about Programs Supported by CPB
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.