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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!

Dear CPB,

Would it be possible to add screen some of the following PBS shows or Welsh films on or around March 1st for St. David’s Day.

The Welsh are the 23rd largest ethnic group in the USA, but seemingly have very little representation. It would be great if PBS stations could have a ‘Wales night’ and dedicate a couple of hours to a travel documentary, a music special and maybe a movie.

Diolch yn fawr iawn/Thank you very much.

Dave Parry Chicago Tafia Welsh Society

PBS Shows

A Soundstage Special - Tom Jones

Live from the Artists Den - Marina And The Diamonds

Great Performances at the Met - Bryn Terfel & Friends in Concert

Visions of Wales

Wales - Great Britain’s Wild West

Curious Traveler - Curious Southern Wales

Rick Steves Europe - North Wales: Feisty and Poetic

Wales – The Land of Storybook Adventures

Movies

American Interior IMDB - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2778266/ In 1792, John Evans, a farmhand from Snowdonia travelled to America to discover whether there was a Welsh-speaking Native American tribe walking the Great Plains.

Pride IMDB - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3169706/ U.K. gay activists work to help miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.

Patagonia IMDB - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020559/ A young Welsh couple travel to Argentina to work on their relationship in Argentina.

Very Annie Mary IMDB - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0188128/ After her father suffers a stroke, his daughter is forced to take care of him.

Solomon & Gaenor IMDB - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181830/ A tragic love story between a Jewish young man and a Welsh woman in the beginning of the century. The movie is mostly in English with parts in Welsh and Yiddish.

Set Fire to the Stars IMDB - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3455740/ An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retreat to save his hell raising hero, Dylan Thomas.

The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain. IMDB - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112966/ When an English cartographer must tell a Welsh village that their mountain is only a hill, the offended community sets out to change that.

August IMDB - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115591/ Chekov's Uncle Vanya, transposed to turn-of-the-century North Wales, where the peace and tranquility of a country house is disturbed by the arrival of the estate's tyrannical owner.

Tiger Bay IMDB - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053361/ A twelve-year-old tomboy witnesses the murder of a woman by her Polish merchant marine boyfriend, but bonds with him and thwarts the police in their investigation

The Proud Valley IMDB - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031828/ In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.

Pink Suede Shoes IMDB - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12389254/ Jasun Watkins brings his pink, brash and very camp Elvis impersonation act to Porthcawl in the biggest Elvis tribute festival in Europe.

Dirt Ash Meat IMDB - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9074950/ In the aftermath of a foot and mouth outbreak on their farm, a family of Welsh hill farmers are consumed by bitterness and paranoia. Adapted from 'White Ravens' by Owen Sheers.

Beddgelert: Gelerts Grave IMDB - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6984528/ Based on the ancient Welsh legend, Beddgelert tells the story of prince Llewelyn. Grieving for his dead wife, he seeks solitude in a remote hunting lodge, taking with him his newborn son and his most trusted hound, Gelert. But despite Gelert’s companionship, Llewelyn is blinded by grief, and fails to see the new danger that threatens his family.

I grew up listening to npr. Npr was unlike the usual news reporting like fox ,cnn or msnbc which are all reporting extremely left or extremely right political views in everything tgey report. CNN is simply an extension of the federal government and reports whatever the government needs people to believe and provides very persuasive reporting in favor of everything our government does. Npr was different. I have been a listener for 44 years from infancy to my current day. I even supported the fundraisers but that has changed. Unfortunately, in my opinion and if you are a long time listener you’re noticing a big difference in the way npr reports the news in our current present day. Npr no longer provides balanced Un contaminated by government Minders who tell them what news to report.( it seems this way). Npr used to give you both sides of a story with no bias whatsoever and I really appreciated that they were a new source that was genuine and supported by the listener instead of corporate parasites whose money comes with an attachment for its host. These are not just my opinion. Look at how much they reported everything trump did as terrible yet they bow down and take a knee for Biden or Obama or bush junior. All part of the hood old boy system of politics and all the true terrorist in this country. ( sorry I’m giving my opinion but I’m not a reporter or journalist. Perhaps their new journalist at npr have no or little experience and don’t know how to keep their opinions from their reporting? I constantly find myself turning my radio off because it’s so bad. I can go fifteen minutes of npr without hearing how horrible republicans, white people, or people dissatisfied with their federal government are Npr reports the trucker strike in Canada from Tge view points of government making these citizens seem like the bad people. I find myself wondering what planet I’m on. I feel betrayed by npr. All I want is what npr has always been from my childhood to 2016. Npr has been hijacked and me and my coworkers and fellow students at my college are trying to find a news source that can replace npr. It was a unique trustworthy source of news and I’m so disappointed, sad even about the fact that I no longer have a news source that’s honest and unbiased. I suppose the Beijing Times os the closest thing I can find to honest these days. I really hope it changes and npr returns to its original formula for reporting the news. Thank you.

You’re smart, you’re a good newsman, you’re fidgeting is driving me crazy. You’re to good to be this nervous, you look like you forget to pee before going in the air. Please relax. Thanks

Please improve the speaking time balance between David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart. Johnpart seems to use twice as much time as David to answer questions. He needs to be more concise.

Please assist Yamiche Alcindor eliminate her habit of saying "yeah" at the end of every guest's comments. It is quite annoying.

I recently found a way to watch Al Jazeera on my TV and after growing up listening to PBS and continuing to do so for 40 years of adulthood, I am getting close to making the switch. Listening to Mark Shields replacement stumble over his hyper emotional attempts to put forth his agenda after trying to make sense of an anorexic millennial whose only friend, a cat, licks itself on the sofa behind her, all while trying to forgive Judy Woodruff for trying not to look as old as Biden is just too much. I love David Brooks, but since his recent marriage, he has turned full on liberal and that once refreshing balance of Shields and Brooks honestly depicting both sides of an argument is sadly gone. Hiring an incompetent Black Gay man to replace Shields is destructive to the hard work and progress that both Blacks and Gays have made in this country and it is embarrassing to watch him stumble. Stephanie Sy on the other hand is sharp and clear and utterly bipartisan and she should be made the anchor and savior of a show I've depended on my whole life.