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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.

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.

Hello Corporation for PUBLIC Broadcasting. Your group runs on PUBLIC treasury dollars. That means PUBLIC. NPR allows me to comment. However my comments are blocked from PUBLIC view. Your fringe left wing NPR needs a course correction to fall within your PUBLIC charter rules, established by congress for the PUBLIC. Perhaps it's time to end your PUBLIC charter, since you refuse to follow the LAW established by congress. I will forward this complaint to others, lawmakers. This is what they hide, in violation of your PUBLIC charter, This is the latest fringe left wing NPR hiding stunt: Sometimes a short message is better than a book, but only if the human mind is willing to grasp. Allen West posted this: Happy Juneteenth folks, it’s the day when Blacks in Texas learned that they were free, June 19, 1865 in Galveston. But what does today mean? It’s the day when Blacks found out that the first Republican President had signed the Emancipation Proclamation freeing them from the physical bondage of the Democrat Party. It was two years later, on July 4th 1867, that 150 of those same Black men met in Houston and established the Republican Party of Texas. The Democrats, in response, established the Ku Klux Klan. Today, the Democrats are economically enslaving Blacks and have turned inner city communities into modern plantations of welfare and economic dependence. Juneteenth is a celebration of why the Republican Party was established in 1854, the abolition of slavery. Only a flaming incompetent idiot would give the party of the jackass any credit for Juneteenth.

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Since you are discontinuing the Covid - Death Memories time, the Weems, in Brunswick ME., suggest you use that slot to talk about Climate Change issues around the world. Certainly the drought and water issues in our southwest warrant critically important information as do the storms in the southeast, glacier melting in Alaska and the death of salmon in the Northwest. The list is endless. Why aren't tv newscasters talking about this most important issue. Please!!! Susan Weems