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Hunter Biden Emails

October 24, 2020
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I have been listening to NPR for forty years. I can not believe the audacity of you not to cover real news. Unless you start covering Hunter Biden and the laptop, hotel, and other people associated with Biden, I will make sure that you never get another public dime again or from any government agency. I will work hard to defund you. 

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PBS NewsHour incorrectly bad quotes Republicans to attack republicans (proof)

Michigan
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Tonights episode is rhe final nail in the coffin for your unlegit reporting. Tonight's episode Nov. 18, 2020 has an obviously bad misquote all to attack republicans, and I can prove it is still up on youtube!

In the report called (Trump's dismissal of Christopher Krebs sraws widespread criticism) you PURPOSELY MISQUOTE a republican senator!

Proof At the misquote if you pause at 3:35, The misquote text and biased narrative you push at PBS Newshour is, again, wrong as usual, so wrong...because AS HE TALKS IT ON AUDIO HE ACTUALLY DISAGREES!

You misquoted him saying this on your video, "the irony is we really did a much better job in 2018 and 2020"

That IS NOT what he says, clearly on my 50 inch HDTV fullscreen loud 100 volume, he ACTUALLY SAYS: "the irony is WE HAVE really DONE a much better job in 2018 than in 2020"

Listen, and correct your pathetically biased mistake.

And yes, your obvious bias and hiding truth in the youtube comments by disabling comments proves you all are pushing a biased and untransparent agenda.

Get real, you are being watched and prepare for lawsuits, your bias has been showing a while ... bye bye nonprofit status, PBS!

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The Choice 2020

October 29, 2020 from Wisconsin
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I just got done watching "The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden" I was just appalled by that documentary. I have watched PBS Frontline over the years and I thought they were a pretty good year. This year, not so much. What they were trying to get us to believe is that election is all about character, temperament, persona, and personality. They said that at the end of the show. They said that policy is not the choice on this year's ballot. I don't believe that for a minute. They tried to make Trump look better than Biden. If this show was the only thing that I ever saw to make a decision, I would not vote for either man. I have been watching politics my whole adult life - some 50 years. I can tell you that Trump is a better President than Biden will ever be. This is just another propaganda film. You put some blemishes on Joe Biden. I grant you that. You tried to make him look like an empathetic figure. He's had a tough life. I'll grant you that, so have a lot of other people. To be a 78-year-old, senile man as President of the United States will not get the job done and PBS did not get the job done on this film. I'm appalled. I will never make another donation to PBS. 

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Fire judy woodruff as newshour anchor

Arkansas
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She has turned newshour into a political left wing platform with no real interest non bias reporting of right wing views to balance .i would rather that news hour stay out of the political arena when ever possible but her left preference and snide comments and attitude make half the viewership uncomfortable and frankly down right angry.its time for a change new unbiased anchor and lead reporters as well.a grassroots movement to defund pbs is gaining speed due largely to judy.

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The Choice 2020

from Pennsylvania
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I'm leaving a message about programming on my local PBS station, WHYY. I'm here in Philidelphia. I'm really upset that they are playing the Frontline interview with the 2020 candidates, which is the most biased piece of "reporting" that I've ever seen. They are playing it here on a day when there are riots and protests and an election six days away. This is public broadcasting and that is absolutely not acceptable. The Frontline piece on Joe Biden and Donald Trump is highly biased, highly prejudicial in favor of the Democratic candidate and it makes me disgusted. I'm an actual Democrat. I really want to complain about that. I already canceled my membership for this very reason. I don't want to see it in my newspapers. I'm sick and tired of the bias. Everything seems to be fake news and it's impossible to know what to believe because of things like this. Public broadcasting stations shouldn't be biased. 

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PBS News hour

Arizona
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Mark Shields comments ,

" I haven't found that many good Germans among the Republicans who are resisting "

I found that comment offensive. I am not certain what he was driving at. But leave Germans or Americans of German decent out of it completely.

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It's time to stop beating up the 'Nazis' (everyone's favorite 'bad guy') on PBS every week!

California
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I am a PBS subscriber and I am also a subscriber to 'COMMENTARY', a conservative Jewish magazine. I am ALSO a German-American and a historian by academic training. I am quite well aware of the terrible events that occurred during the 2WK (AKA: WW2) under the Hitler regime. And yes, they were reprehensible by any definition of 'racial persecution', but I am extremely tired of having this 75+ year old drama replayed practically every week on PBS programming. If it isn't Rick Steeves preaching about the horrors of German National Socialism, it's 'The Rise of the Nazis' or the 75th anniversary of that travesty of international law known as the Nürnberg War Crime Trials.

It is quite obvious that PBS loves to rub Nazis in our faces, every time we turn around, and I for one am sick to death of it. What is also quite obvious is that bashing Nazis has become a regular pastime on PBS and I'm uncertain as to exactly why, unless it's because there's so much influence by pro-Jewish elements of American society at PBS who are behind this. In the present decade of American progressive 'Democratic identity-socialism', it appears to be conveniently overlooked that Hitler's execrable transgressions against humanity were and have been far exceeded by a full century of Soviet/Russian Communist barbarity (whose victims number in the hundreds of millions)! There have been innumerable, equally despicable villains (AKA: mass-murderers) in the past several thousand years of human history...Napoleon, Ghengiz Khan, Mao Zhedong, Pol Pot...the list is practically endless...but whom do we chose to trot out of the closet of horrors every week? Why, those lovable, ultimate mega-monsters, the German National Socialists!

The fact that Josef Stalin was ostensibly our 2WK 'ally', who shared in the defeat of the German Third Reich (and a subsequent victory-wreath) endowed his utterly barbaric depredations (mostly against his own people!) with a most convenient blanket immunity from worldwide censure that has been conveniently swept under the historical carpet. Had the Soviets been on the losing side, make no mistake in thinking that Stalin would have escaped the same sort of carnival-like miscarriage of justice that the Nürnberg Tribunal defendants faced. Despite the populist ballyhoo that portrays the Nürnberg Tribunal as just and fair, a preponderance of objective jurists today condemn them as an absolute, utter farce. They were in fact a travesty of proper jurisprudence and the equivalent of a virtual 'Old West Style' lynch mob right from the beginning!

Reichsmarschall Herman Göring, in his lengthy prepared statement before the Tribunal, presented many compelling arguments in his defense (and the defense of the other defendants), but today the lucidity and practical cogency of his testimony is also conveniently ignored and/or overlooked by liberal historians. Göring masterfully summarised his testimony with the chilling reminder that “Der Sieger wird immer der Richter und der Besiegte stets der Angeklagte sein” ("The victor will always be the judge and the vanquished the accused").

In summary, enough is enough. It's time to stop beating a dead horse. Stop fanning the leftist liberal 'SOCI' (for that was the popular term for socialists, back in Germany's 1930s) flames and let's get on with life in the present moment! We have enough things on our cultural plate to worry about without being accused of being 'closet Nazis' every time we turn around!

One final thing: What is termed 'Anti-semitism' is a gross misnomer. The proper term should be 'Anti-Jewish' or 'Anti-Zionist', since the term 'semite' applies to all peoples of the Southwest Asian region and therefore unjustly impugns the entire range of Arab peoples, none of whom are Jewish.

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Yamiche Alcondor

Virginia
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Both my husband and I were enthusiastic in Vice President Biden’s defeat of President Trump. Listening to Yamiche Alcindor’s screed heard on Hari Screenivasin’s interview on Saturday (11/07/20) was an embarrassment of clear racist bigotry. We can never again listen to her reports or commentary with anything resembling confidence or respect. This type of irrationality besmerches your reputation and our fondly held respect for Gwen Ifill. This commentator was so focused on the gender, place of education, race of sorority of the Vice President elect that she actually failed to focus comment on the Predent elect. This reporter offered a shameful commentary so biased in presentation that we shall refrain from watching or listening to her again.

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Jamestown Season 2

Maine
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Just recently signed up for PBS passport. Since signing up, I have noticed language censorship. Why, and is there a way to disable it?

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Signal interruptions

Florida
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Your signal transmission has been intermittently blocked all weekend. Screen goes blank.

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PBS News Hour

Maine
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My wife and I are avid watchers of the PBS Newshour and enjoy what we feel is excellent and fair reporting. We are also long standing supporters of NPR. We have, however, been very disappointed by the biased reporting by Yamiche Alcindor. As I watch her manage to take any positive news that involves Republicans and turn it into a negative, I wonder how it is that she has been given such editorial leeway. I always wait for the...but...which is the signal she is about to move into her biased agenda. The Newshour has a great team of reporters, however, Alcindor does not, in our opinion, maintain the same level of professionalism.

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The Pilgrims

Vermont
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All of the videos including "The Pilgrims" vibrate so much that I cannot watch any of them. Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you.

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Judy Woodruff calling republicans "Rural, without a college education"

Ohio
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I watched almost all of the PBS News Hour election special, and was disgusted by the obvious liberal bias of your news anchor Judy Woodruff. At about 1 am last night (November 4th 2020) Judy Woodruff made a statement about republicans being "rural, and without a college education." I am an independent but my family is all college educated republicans and the assault on them was unjust and uncalled for. Ever since David Gregory got fired as moderator of Meet the Press, I have relied on PBS for what I felt was the last unbiased news. It makes me sad that the last reliable news station in this country has been corrupted by anchors like Judy Woodruff who would rather report their opinions over facts. I will no longer be watching PBS News Hour, and no longer recommend it to others who are tired of the far left and far right news. I'm sure this email wont even be read but it's important enough that I have to try. My last remaining source of unbiased news media is foreign news like german Deutsche Welle. Even though many of the topics on Deutsche Welle are impertinent to me as an American, the lead anchor Brent Goff is always on point. His interviews are full of poignant unbiased questions and he never puts forward his opinions, only facts. I hope some day PBS News Hour can find an anchor like Brent Goff who can return your news station into the hub of information it once was. Thank you for reading.

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PBS NEWSHOUR is a disgrace, 100% bias against President Trump

Wisconsin
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We can no longer count on the PBS News Hour for trustworthy / factual / balanced reporting. The days of MacNeil and Lehrer are long gone. Since 2016, the program is so one-sided, so biased against conservatives, especially Trump voters, that it is painful to watch. (Frankly, I do so less and less, and I used to be a donor!) Also, how much abuse can one take? I would like to say to Judy Woodruff that we, "deplorables," are not stupid; have dignity; are as much children of God as anyone else. We get it: You despise us, just like you despise the President.

To the board of CPB, I say: Enough is enough. Get rid of the PBS News Hour. It has outlived its usefulness and it cannot be fixed.

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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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