I am a regular listener and watcher of both programs and I know you are replacing Judy Woodruff on the News Hour. I am a senior and many of my friends also watch and listen but because we are older we have trouble hearing people who speak fast like Amna Nawaz, Lisa Des Jardins, and Yamiche Alcindor. Young people do not get the news from TV but older ones do so they are the major portion of your audience. Also I have noticed that many of your guests on both programs also speak very fast. I suggest you do not replace Judy with either of these three mentioned but rather with Stephanie Sy, Jeff Bennett, John Yang. William Brangham, and/or Jeffrey Brown. If the programs continue to have people who speak rapidly and not clearly I will reconsider my yearly donation to PBS so please speak to them.
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The closed captioning on the PBS News Hour is consistently not synced with the audio. It really makes it difficult for those of us who are hard of hearing.
Please consider creating a PBS/NPR equivalent for social media (a National Public Forum)
To Whom It May Concern,
The current events involving Twitter are posing a great risk to our society. Many people, like myself, use Twitter to get snapshots of the news to investigate further. The CPB was founded on a mission to create a more informed public.
Is it possible for CPB to create a National Public Forum) for "civil discourse" that was monitored for truth and accuracy? It would provide a place for journalists committed to public truth to publish verified content. It would be monitored for accuracy which would create jobs. It would provide an additional avenue to increase private donations.
I would be happy to discuss this with anyone who will listen.
-Mike C****o (484) 288-xxxx
I would have given more
I used to give thousands of dollars to PBS as it was a big part of my family's life. Passport was a great idea and I was sympathetic to its limitations due to costs. However, I have moved to another city and am forced to use their passport which does not support the shows which I like. I have to log in way too often. In short it is a hassle for what I don't care for. This year, PBS will get the bare minimum for us as we feel that is what we get from you. We feel the rules imposed by CPB are the reason for the failure. We fear that by watching the pennies, you have lost the dollars. PBS has become irrelevant through a lot of its own doing. This is a tragedy. Please consider another structure for online viewing. A little upfront organization on your part could be way more profitable in the long run. I often make recommendations to people who reject the offers because they aren't members. Free samples has always been a successful model when the content is good. PBS still has the best content... but people have become used to sad offerings on other platforms. Please tempt them with something better. To prove my point, people donated when the television showed things for free. During these hard times, people could use something other than YouTube as a free options. We urge you to do something soon.
What is your function?
First, I think it’s strange that you’re a *private* corporation created and funded by government and managing government resources. Shouldn’t you be public under those circumstances? The public deserves to have more insight and influence into what we’re funding and de facto authorizing. Why is this organization not public?
Second, I think people need more help understanding what it is you actually do. You’re apparently using taxpayer funding to help stations by providing ‘grants, seed money, and operating support’, and you make the comment that you “make “major investments in national content”, but anytime someone has a question or criticism, your standard response is ‘we don’t have any influence or input to programs or content’. I’m trying to understand how this is possible and what your function actually is. Are you purely processing disbursements from government direction without any strategy or analysis on your part? If so, who is providing the direction? And do we really need a private corporation to do that? Where’s the taxpayer benefit? If you do have some true managerial/ developmental/ operational oversight, how is it you give the same form letter response to everyone saying you don’t? If you keep getting comments talking about bad reporting and bias for instance (in violation of NPR/ PBS posted mission statements and code of ethics), how is it that your only response is to say that’s not your area? If you’re making managerial/ developmental/ operational investments and have that kind of business relationship, shouldn’t you at least be collecting these comments for feedback, internal policy/ process decisions, or at least some kind of report? Shouldn’t you be able to point commenters to some kind of official surveys or feedback process you have for your taxpayer funded entity? From this vantage point (with such limited/ non-existent information) it seems kind of like a shell game. It looks as though you are either an unnecessary organization, you’re not being fully upfront about your role, or you’re being used as a means to intentionally block public input into public broadcasting.
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WHAT IS THE REAL HUMAN POPULATION on EARTH? WHEN WILL PBS EVER DO A DOCUMENTARY on this guy. You could put it on late at night.
FROM CONTACT REPORT 825 ------- AT futureofmankind.co.uk
The whole nature of the planet is being destroyed by the machinations of overpopulation, which is growing ever larger – it is mendaciously claimed scientifically that there are currently around 8 billion, whereas there are already more than 9.2 billion.
This, while the Earth at its peak was designed to support a total population of no more than 2 billion. But the human beings of the Earth have proliferated in terms of their billionfold offspring and have multiplied to such an extent that they have become a threat to the continued existence of the whole planet as well as to the whole of nature and its fauna and flora.
As a result, the extinction of many life-forms has increased in number, so that now every year more than 1,000 genera and species of plants, animals, creatures, snakes, amphibians, fish, birds, bees, butterflies, beetles, ants, termites, wasps, hornets and all kinds of other thousand-fold life-forms disappear from the entire surface of the earth, from the waters and mountains, from the skies and from the soil, and are thus eradicated. In principle, demonstrations against environmental pollution and against environmental destruction as well as against climate change and global warming etc. are of no use, because in reality and unstoppably the huge mass of humanity resp. overpopulation continues to grow uncontrolled, whereby the pollution and destruction of the planet, of nature as well as its fauna and flora is rampant and can --PTAAH
Today about IRAN
AS AN IRANIAN AMERICAN I DISAGREE WITH THE FINAL COMMENT IN TODAYS REPORT .THE Revolution THAT IS GOING ON WILL TRIUMPH AND THE PEOPLE WILL GET A DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM .I THINK YOU OWE ALL THE PEOPLE OF IRAN FAIR AND ACCURATE REPORTING NOT PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS OF YOUR REPORTER.WE WILL BURY THESE DEMONS IN THE TRASH HEAP OF HISTORY .ZAN ZENDGY AZADY
Public Radio Listeners & Staff Creating New Sports For Uninterrupted Play During Pandemics Like Covid-19
With one report of the average weekly listeners being over 19 million, why not create a program for listeners to solve the global challenge of playing sports uninterrupted during pandemics like Covid-19 to help the world with emotional, physical, and economic wellbeing? It can be done. Do an internet search for: "New Gender-Neutral Sports That Keep Players Separate." These New sports should 1. Keep players separate at least 6 feet. 2. Have no head or hand contact with shared equipment. 3. Be adaptable for those with a disability. Consider that two schools in Massachusetts had a recent teachers' strike keeping home over 13,000 students. If each student worked just one hour on creating a new sport, that would have been over 1 year project time in just one day. If only 100,000 Public Radio Listeners and Staff out of the more than 19 million worked on creating new sports, that would be over 11 years of project time in just one day. Society missed the opportunity to create these new sports during the 1918 Spanish Flu and the 2005 Bird Flu. Then in 2020, Covid-19 showed the world why these new sports are needed to allow society to be together in physical activity while maintaining social distance. It can be done. The hope is that society will create these new sports and or modify current sports before the next pandemics like Covid-19.
Morning Edition
You know, some of my friends get angry at NPR’s quotidian promotion of left-wing narratives without pushback or skepticism, such as this morning’s piece on crime by far-left activist Sandhya Dirks. But I, on the contrary, believe that NPR helps the Right. NPR is almost a caricature of a certain type of urban leftist with a big megaphone. Voters and consumers may be as dumb as Dirks and the like implicitly believe, but they know when they are being condescended to, so keep up the segments telling them that issues of violent crime, inflation, illegal immigration, a general public anomie, etc., are the result of their gullibility and imagination, and ‘racist’ as well. In large parts of this country, now, such products of the legacy media help turn swing voters, such as those fabled ‘suburban wimen’, toward pulling the lever for the GOP.
macneil-lehere news hour with judy woodruff
I think Don Henley can be the next vice president of the United States of America. Don has experience as an elected official and is a veteran of the army special services in the Americas. He can write the lyrics to his speeches and he can write the theme songs to his traveling election campaign. He has recent and relevant experience.
political bias
Date: 11/3/22
From: Ed D****r PO Box **** Kalispell MT 59903 (406) ***-**68 ***@ usa.com
To: Patricia de Stacy Harrison Board Officers CPB
Enough! NPR’s political bias is so skewed, it has become intolerable.
There is a well known ‘game’ in politics called, “Lets play Democrats and Republican.”
My older brother just died at 83. At no time in his entire, adult life did he ever vote for a candidate, although he dutifully voted in every election. He signed over, carte-blanche, his entire voting rights to the Republican Party at twenty one and never looked back.
If the powers that be can get everyone playing the ‘game’, they can hide a tone of unqualified, corrupt, and special-interest candidates from prying eyes.
And your stations are right in there with the best of them playing the ‘game’.
Enough already! You are suppose to be autonomous and free to point out the corrupt practices of the political parties, not digging-in to help them.
Oregon Ballot Measure 114
Measure 114 is a real bad piece of fantasy and if passed will make it even more dangerous for the average citizen in Oregon. Please address this misleading measure M-114.
PBS News Hour
If and when Judy Woodruff retires, please consider Geoff Bennett as the next host to replace her. His weekend coverage is very good, he has a pleasant voice and would be the best choice. I'm sorry that Hari is no longer around. He would also be a good choice as a host for the News Hour.
Recent rape in NYC of early morning female jogger
Why isn’t the NYT covering the rape of this middle aged female? Another reason why the media can’t be trusted to report fair, balanced, accurate news.
I want to build a sound between the news brakes I love your program I want to know how what the name and how program.
I would like to know the name of the sound between the program and it is almost impossible to find out from you folks I know it's not deeper important but it's soon even I would like to know the name of it I watch your program in your station thank you. I pray for blessings of you you folks
Voting results!!! 11/08/2022
I CALL BULL**** ON THESE RESULTS!!!!!! No Way it can be true or accurate!!!! The only way voting in AMERICA WILL EVER BE TRUE AND ACCURATE IS BY ASSEMBLY!!!!! EVERY VOTER BALLOTS IN HAND WALKING THRU A COUNTER LIKE AT AIRPORTS OR SIX FLAGS!!!! NO MORE BULL****!!! WE THE PEOPLE ARE SICK AND TIRED OF ALL THE CRAP, BOLD FACE LIES, the INSULT I. OUR INTELLIGENCE!!! ENOUGH!!! WE ARE DONE WITH IT!!!!! TIME TO RISE AND FIGHT FOR WHAT IS RIGHT!!! PERIOD! EVERYONE FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS!!!!
Gayla * B**t 346-***-****
Bias
Unfortunately PBS is now showing more bias than ever. I won’t give any money to them .. they are a Public Broadcaster.. and should not show bias. It’s a sad day..