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.
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Announcement of Mark Shields' retirement from PBS Newshour's Friday Political Commentary Desk
New York
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What a sad day for those of us who have listened to his wit and wisdom for all these years. Somehow it seems to be more than thirty-three years. Every Friday evening watching the Newshour for the exchange of sharp political insight and witty remarks between Mark and David Gergen, Paul Gigot, and now the equally incomparable David Brooks, has been a weekly must. For anyone who prides himself on being politically attuned, there has been no better set of commentators. And among this select group, Mark has always been the standout--witty comments, encyclopedic knowledge of past and current political issues and figures, and wise, thoughtful remarks that put all of these other "pundits" to shame. Thank you for such wonderful work, enlightening our minds and bringing leavening humor to our perceptions of American democracy in action. A new star added to the PBS galaxy: Robin MacNeil, Jim Lehrer, Gwen Ifill, et al.
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Oregon
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Do you think you will ever do A Town Like Alice and The Thorn Birds again? Thank you. Lillian Smith Corvallis OR
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News Hour on P S
Illinois
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Mark Shields has been my lens for understanding a principled view of American politics. Please extend my gratitude for his years of service. His commentary has been intelligent, insightful and convivial. I will miss him an awful lot.
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Colorado
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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!!!
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PBS NewsHour
Pennsylvania
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Hello,
Please pass along my thanks to Mark Shields for his years of excellent work, including his commentary on the Friday evening PBS NewsHour.
His decency, humor and insight have been an inspiration, and I will miss him!
Brian Steer Pottstown, Pa.
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Liberal bias
Missouri
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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.
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Mark Shields goodbye 12/18/2020
Minnesota
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Mark - Thanks for being you. God bless you. See me - go to google - enter Huot our town with Ron Ron
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Virginia
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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
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Wishing Mark Shields the best of times in retirement
Pennsylvania
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Mark Shields has brought us words of political and historic wisdom each week for years and years. His analysis has been well researched and based in historic and accurate facts. He presents information with intelligence and ethical consideration bringing meaning to the week's news. He will be missed but we wish him the very best that life has to offer in his retirement. We've learned so much and are so grateful for the years that he has dedicated himself to the public. You've earned this, Mark - now enjoy it! Gila and Ron Pacanowski
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Massachusetts
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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!
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election
Hawaii
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HEY DUMMIES SENATE COMMITTEE IS NOT BASELESS CLAIMS OF FRAUD HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF AFFIDAVIDES? STOP THE PROPAGANDA A*******
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Illinois
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PBS is federally funded yet thinks that it can be extremely liberally bias. My taxes for their radical views? Take them off the air.
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Newshour: Please deliver this message to Mark Shields
Colorado
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Dear Mr. Shields, I just read David Brooks's column on your retirement following the Newshour broadcast this coming Friday, and I need to write to wish you, from deep in my heart, the very best. I have watched the News Hour since 1982, when it was the MacNeil Lehrer Report. I have watched you since GERGEN and Shields. I also was the one who ran into you in a hotel in San Diego some years back while you were trying to order some eggs from the breakfast buffet and thanked you for all you do -- sorry to disrupt you! I am going to miss you. I have always admired your passion, decency, goodness, and humanity. You treated people fairly. You spoke with such clarity about the democratic process, of your conviction that politics can be a force of good. I cannot thank you enough.
This Friday I will tune in again, looking forward to seeing you once more. I will smile, and likely a tear or two will fall down my cheek. You are, Mr. Shields, something special. Thank you again, and best wishes.
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PBS News Hour and Judy Woodruff
Texas
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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.
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Mark Shields
Maine
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Thank you, Mr. Boston..watched you every Friday for years.
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Judy Woodruff interview with Georgia Attorney General
Illinois
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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
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A Gentleman and A Scholar
Oregon
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I will miss Mark Shields commentary but look forward to his occasion appearances. It is like a breath of fresh air to hear Mark's take on current events, especially during the last few years when democracy took a nosedive. I also found his exchanges with David Brooks a model for civil discourse... he is a gentleman and a scholar. Thank you.
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PBS news hour Mark Sheilds
California
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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.
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PBS news hour David Brooks
California
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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.
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