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Any claims that you are not responsible for the otter crap that is seen on your station, is as truthful as your stations claims of balanced news. It would be clear to Helen Keller (Yes, I know not PC) how far Left your over all programing and so called news have become. You no long have a honest service to the public and should not receive a penny of taxpayer money.

Judy appears to be a wonderful, compassionate person--a great individual and even newsreader. However, her skills as an interviewer are nonexistent. Any interview with Judy becomes an opportunity for the interviewee to control the conversation, present a unpaid political commercial and leave the viewer even more uninformed. We do not need to hear more talking points from entrenched politicians.

There are many good interviewers out there--including a few a PBS. It is time for a change at the News Hour. Perhaps it is also a problem with the producers of these shows if they do not see the problem.

This spring's pledge has gone on far too long! Asking people to pledge should then give them the weekly and daily shows they are supporting.

Hello I think that there should be a Mary Moo Cow show on PBS Kids just like the one on Arthur.

opposing the Covid legislation as too generous to states Here is what Wikipedia has to say about South Dakota's economy North Dakota oil boom has given those who own mineral rights large incomes from lease bonuses and royalties. The boom has reduced unemployment and given the state of North Dakota a billion-dollar budget surplus. North Dakota, which ranked 38th in per capita gross domestic product (GDP) in 2001, rose steadily with the Bakken boom, and now has per capita GDP 29% above the national average. PBS has to do better interviewing ;that interview was a disgrace .Aside: You -PBS- are spending to much on "Black Lives Matter' It could enrage MAGA supporters -although I bet less than10% watch PBS As a retired physicist - I would like to see less air time spent on cultural issues and more time devoted to complexity of life due to exploding technologies while IQ's remain stagnant Frank Lipsky 928 328 2192 franklipsky79@gmail.com

Wondering about the subject line. We are located in Dagsboro, DE but the only PBS station we receive on Direct TV is the Salisbury one. We at one time received the Wilmington PBS but it was dropped from our lineup. We have contributed to WHYY for a number of years but have never received such requests from the Salisbury station. Are the State boundaries porous or do we have to emigrate?

Dear Representatives:

Transparency about who makes the decisions to frame fictional scenarios and unsubstantiated claims of conspiracy as THEORIES, as in fiction novels, is missing with regard to news media, including NPR. Why am I so suspicious about corruption without transparency about decision-makers in our news? We have the tools of modern science to help test, verify and substantiate claims of conspiracy as theory, except in "fact-based" news, or that is the claim. If a journalist cannot verify a claim, then report it as a suspicion, or unsubstantiated claim. However, journalists seem to ignore the validation of their claims about "conspiracy theories." Journalists chew on these "conspiracy theories" as if they are real enough to sink one's teeth into them! How do serious journalists verify the claim that a conspiracy is tied to a pizza parlor basement in Washington, D.C., in which the basement does NOT exist? A high school science student should be able to nullify such hypothetical statements right off without much testing to keep such hypothetical statements from EVER becoming a THEORY in the real world. Theory comes with rigorous testing, validation, peer review, etc. Please, have some quantum physicists come tell us how this "conspiracy theory" nonsense might parallel the paradox as we have seen in the thought experiment involving Schrödinger's cat in the quantum Universe. Why try to make all this more complicated than ordinary theory concepts in science seem to be? Otherwise, stick with the facts, what is verifiable, testable, and so forth, when speaking of theory in headline news.

Applying basic science literacy as published through the National Academies of Sciences, which is one our best institutions in pursuit of 21st century knowledge. Functional citizens and even dysfunctional ones should be learning basic science and good journalism should help pervade good science methods for discerning the truth from fiction. However, NPR keeps on talking about "conspiracy theories." I keep asking who validates and substantiates these unsubstantiated claims of conspiracy, or false narratives, or plain lies, scams, and hoaxes, as theory? Who helps journalists establish that garbage is theory according to the science model for establishing theory from hypothetical concepts through rigorous methods for testing and validation of data and evidence? This element is NOT TRANSPARENT. Talk of hoaxes, scams, lies as theory is misinforming the public, and talk in interviews in which your hosts equate "ideas of the people with theory" with scientific theory is absurd. The misleading concept is that theory = theory, and given a myriad of other synonyms to explain suspicions, that bandwagon is absurd and cannot work. Language is important. Good journalism, which is what we expect from public media, should follow the science model for the use of theory about phenomena, when reporting news to the public. Suspicions and speculation are not theory either until tested and validated, etc.

It is important for citizens to know how to quickly dismiss nonsense before it can become any theory. There are synonyms for the fiction version of theory, such as suspicion, conjecture, speculation, hunches, guesses, wild guesses, myth, lies, hoax, false narratives, etc. Imagine some member of the U.S. Congress learning how to dismiss a hypothetical narrative, and making it a nullified hypothesis, and never posting it anywhere as THEORY. Public Media are a joke, and are helping with pervading ignorant beliefs that help sustain political positions. We heard President Trump claim that climate change theory was a hoax. Journalist help substantiate that theory is a hoax with claims about conspiracy being framed as theory, and not framing it as a hoax; thus, theory = theory and hoax = hoax. Leave "theory" out of these false claims. Please, apply the following.

"Scientific literacy implies that a person can identify scientific issues underlying national and local decisions and express positions that are scientifically and technologically informed." Source: https://www.nap.edu/read/4962/chapter/4#22

We should demand and expect Public Media to help citizens understand how to apply science in daily life, and not more myths, hoaxes, and lies as theory. Theory should be reserved in fact-based news for hypotheses that have been rigorously tested and validated. This is an excerpt from a National Standard for Science Education:

"Scientific literacy means that a person can ask, find, or determine answers to questions derived from curiosity about everyday experiences. *******It means that a person has the ability to describe, explain, and predict natural phenomena. Scientific literacy entails being able to read with understanding articles about science in the popular press and to engage in social conversation about the validity of the conclusions.******** Scientific literacy implies that a person can identify scientific issues underlying national and local decisions and express positions that are scientifically and technologically informed. A literate citizen [journalist] 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 -https://www.nap.edu/read/4962/chapter/4

NPR does not follow this model, but it's not alone, and why? Asterisks added above to highlight how I say, Public Media fails to help people see that a hoax, or scam or false narrative, lies and fabricated nonsense are just that and NOT THEORY, as in fiction novels. It seems that much of what is framed in journalism as theory and theorists (more likely conspiracy creationists) really comes from the fiction model and not one from science literacy. Please, work to change that each and every day, such that we have normal citizens, voters, and members of Congress who are literate regarding the tools of modern science.

Regards,

Aubrey Neas

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.

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.