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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PBS News Hour and Judy Woodruff
Texas
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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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Correcting False Narratives
Georgia
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For many years, brown African Americans have been called black. As you know how negative and corrosive the term represents.
Pinkish European Americans have been given the false narrative and privilege of being called white.
Forms, schools and media continue these false narratives that causes hate and arrogance because of this ignorance.
It is the responsibility of you who address the public daily to teach Truth and heal the divisions caused by this propaganda.
Native Americans, Hispanic or Latino Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans and European Americans are some of the diversity that comprises America.
Let's begin speaking Truth!
About Your Shows
Oregon
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Dear The Corporation For The Public Broadcasting,
I like your shows and your web sites. Hope you're doing well.
Sincerely,
Harrison
Casual conversation
Montana
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This is Richard James Goodall, checking in with you guys. Just wanted to let you guys know that, during these tough times, working together as a big team is a must, as we try to find a cure for the COVID-19 virus.
PBS News Hour Politics Friday 11/6/2020
District Of Columbia
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Please send this email to Mark Shields.
Mark, my husband and I always enjoy your laconic observations and your wry sense of humor. You hit the ball out of the park last night when you said that Lindsey Graham makes Tonto look like an independent. We are still chuckling over this bullseye.
With thanks and admiration,
Stephanie Karsten
Mark Shields
California
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I wanted to thank you for having Mark Shields on your program every Friday. I've been following him for years and I think he is the voice of reason and sanity in what seems a sometimes insane country. Such a relief just to hear his comments once a week.
NewsHour broadcast of David Brooks is badly out of focus
New York
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The video from David Brooks home webcam has been TERRIBLE for 6 MONTHS!! This is a feature segment. It looks really poor, it's distracting. Look at Jonathan Carhart crystal clear, David is badly out of focus/cloudy. Look! An excellent camera is $100. I'd be honored and happy to donate that new camera.
Please forward this to: Sydni Dreher, Senior Production Manager Michael Melia, Senior Broadcast Producer and Stuart Cohen, Editor/Camera/Tech.
This is my daily news since the live Watergate hearings coverage,(I was 14).
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Lost Support & Credibility
West Virginia
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I am cancelling my channel and will never again support PBS. Your broadcasts do not reflect, inform or serve a very substantial portion of ‘the public.’ I will not support nor contribute to topic suppression and such blatant, politically slanted broadcasting. Further, as a private, nonprofit entity benefiting from CPB grants and other federal funds, it is even more disturbing. This isn’t journalism...it’s simply ‘opinionism.’ No credibility. No support.
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Shields & Brooks
Texas
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Dear Mr.Shields and Mr. Brooks, A former Marine asked last Friday "why can't America have 2 Presidents?"
Taught to fight after Vietnam mostly with other Marines on base after years of being kicked out of exceptional schools over fighting, this 65 year old who got a GED from Jesuit in Dallas, predictably claims to have voted, after finally staying out of prison for a score of dwi's. Yes he never went to jail while I represented him for 1 score of cases. But later, penniless, the Tennessee solution presented itself and thankfully he quit.
Impressed by wealth and touched by narscasim himself, this man who used to con many others, has always been vulnerable to bigger cons. He took care of a disabled sister who is now cared for under Medicaid but fails to understand Texas Republicans would starve the program if they could.
Ironically it seems that if Biden gets to 270 with Nevada Saturday, his hero Trump will not exit with class and will claim being co president, without forcing Biden into a corrupt bargain to encourage him to leave.
McConnell wanted the will of the people. Well 2 million more selected Biden before Trump tries to use the 2000 playback to stop the count. Can't these folk be more creative?
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1A
Virginia
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This comment is directed to Mr. Rupert Allman, executive producer at NPR's 1A. This used to be a very informative radio show. Former hosts, Diane Rehm and Joshua Johnson, would engage with their guests by asking thought-provoking questions. While that may have been the case today (11/11/2020), when the discussion centered around upcoming vaccines for COVID 19, it certainly was not the case the previous two days. This past Monday, the host did not engage with the guests by asking any question of substance. As a matter of fact, she just gave free rein to the guests. This is especially true of the female guest (an academic from a local state university) who dismiissed statements by the show's listeners regarding their assertions on moral compass. This is the kind of attitude that gives the acedeme a bad rap for snobbery. Unless there is a substantial change in the way the host is supposed to interact with the guests, I'm afraid 1A will not have too many listeners.
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Stop
Pennsylvania
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Being an old USAF Korean veteran and living through many life lesions, I find it quite disturbing that your programing is so unbalanced.
Constantly your stations show past and present history of the Jewish people, why is this done?
This is the USA, your stations should be showing our own history of how our native people were treated rather than mostly Jewish populations in Europe, both past and present
At this time I now turn off your stations off that blast the old and new articles about Hebrews, I have heard every story too many times.
Get with our USA and show our own problems, stop living off the backs of Jewish people.
Possibly your concern needs new management !!!
R A Ebitz Pittsburgh/Greensburg Pa
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Hunter Biden Emails
October 19, 2020
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I was wondering if there were going to be any investigation or any comment that I've read on other news sites about the Hunter Biden emails. I wanted to know what NPR's position was on that and what they have been finding out. I would appreciate if something could be brought up about it so we could at least be informed.
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November 10, 2020. Mark Shields newspaper column comment
Michigan
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I just read Mark Shields column in my local newspaper, the Mining Journal, Marquette, Michigan. Nov. 10, 2020. The article is about two white older men who ran for president. Fire of all, I like Mark Shields, consider myself a progressive Democrat. He mentions the number voting, etc. NOT ONCE, however did M. Shields mention the choice ofKAMALA HARRIS (diversity!) -- By Joe Biden. This is a HUGE factor in the MASSIVE NUMBER of votes for Joe B.
It is still astonishing --to me--that Trump got the number that he did. I have to remind myself that many of those who voted for DT 45 are people who will vote Republican - NO MATTER WHAT forever. Many are white non educated people who think he is going to actually help them. Some Trump voters care only about what they see as the ECONOMY getting better. So really -- Not many are the extremist RIDICULOUS white supremacist wing of this group (the ones who carry guns into Michigans capitol, for example. Another part of his voters are ignorant of actual facts and do not care about the DIVERSITY of this America today. America is changing rapidly -- whether WHITE VOTERS for 45 realize that. Far more states are purple or bue than ever before. Women who voted for Trump are simply voting against their own best interests, like the women of the 50-60s who served dinner in their aprons, Handmaids tale.
Those old white men who voted for Trump need to wake up to a more diverse country. Thats just a fact of American Life.
Thanks, Mark, for the good work. Just a few comments. You needed to add Kamala to the article.
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Timeline youtube video don't match the verbage or have missing links.
Georgia
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Some of the YouTube videos linked on the history timeline are either broken or do not match to the description. For example the 3-2-1 contact video is "a day in the life of a KISS concert" and the January 12, 1982, American Playhouse video is "for colored girls: somebody almost walked..." October 25, 1971 video is unavailable June 6, 1983 video is unavailable
These are just the ones that I have found. I haven't gone past 1983.
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PBS NewsHour
October 22, 2020 from Vermont
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I was calling in concern of the PBS NewsHour. I am a local viewer in Vermont. I am concerned that it is not factual news and that it is opinionated news with people sitting there to crap on the President and talk nothing but negative opinions about him. They're not basing the news on facts. It is ridiculous. You guys need to stay neutral with politics. You guys are losing millions and millions of dollars in donations. That is a fact. I watch your news daily. They just commented that Trump interrupted Biden over one hundred times but they did not mention that Biden interrupted Trump over seventy times. It is ridiculous. It is based on opinions not facts. Your news channel is a mess. Just is a Socialist Democrat who can't hold her emotions back. You guys are losing millions in donations. You need to stay neutral in politics.
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the "public" WNYC treats the public with contempt
New York
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Dear leadership of CPB,
I am writing regarding a problem with the way the "public" WNYC treats its listeners.
I approached WNYC asking them to make a segment on judicial fraud -- judges replacing in their decisions parties' argument with bogus argument of judges' own concoction so as to decide cases the way they want to, not the way they have to -- and when sued for fraud. judges arguing that they have a self-given (in Pierson v. Ray) right to act from the bench "maliciously and corruptly." (I tried to describe this pernicious phenomenon at https://alibi.com/news/61032/Judicial-Fraud-Impacts-Americans.html and you can check my site, www.cajfr.org)
I purchased tickets, and came to several events with Brian Lehrer, their host of political program so as to talk to him, and came to meetings of their Community Advisory Board to advocate for reporting of judicial fraud -- and asked for reason why 1/3 of US government -- its judiciary -- being officially "corrupt and malicious" does not count as "news."
They refused to answer this simple question, and I kept e-mailing them further evidence of judicial fraud. They blocked my e-mail address and phones -- so I cannot e-mail them or call them. Is that a way to treat a listener by a "public" radio station? They are taking money from the public -- from NPR, and thru fund drives in which they assure listeners that they are the epitome of honest reporting, acting in public interest -- which is a lie because investigating how judging is being done, and reporting that judges think they have a right to act "maliciously and corruptly," is manifestly in the public interest, and hiding this as WNYC does, is counter to the public interest -- as is cutting off communications with members of the public just because what they hear from the public is not to their liking.
CPB likely gives WNYC some funds -- this funding should be cut off. WNYC's contempt for the public does not warrant public funding.
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Covid vaccine trisls
Wisconsin
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Please comment on the experimental error rate (margin of error) for the various trials. Please comment on what the placebos are in the various trials; they are not all the same. Also , why isn’t the appropriate placebo the adjuvant rather than saline? Also, why did the news media not immediately ask for the error rate? it’s the same principle as in political polling.
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