I recently found a way to watch Al Jazeera on my TV and after growing up listening to PBS and continuing to do so for 40 years of adulthood, I am getting close to making the switch. Listening to Mark Shields replacement stumble over his hyper emotional attempts to put forth his agenda after trying to make sense of an anorexic millennial whose only friend, a cat, licks itself on the sofa behind her, all while trying to forgive Judy Woodruff for trying not to look as old as Biden is just too much. I love David Brooks, but since his recent marriage, he has turned full on liberal and that once refreshing balance of Shields and Brooks honestly depicting both sides of an argument is sadly gone. Hiring an incompetent Black Gay man to replace Shields is destructive to the hard work and progress that both Blacks and Gays have made in this country and it is embarrassing to watch him stumble. Stephanie Sy on the other hand is sharp and clear and utterly bipartisan and she should be made the anchor and savior of a show I've depended on my whole life.
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Virtue Signaling is not news - Fire Everyone except Stephanie Sy and David Brooks
Constant weekend fundraising
Since you have taken control of the local SoCal stations (KCET, KOCE, KLSC) you have fundraising EVERY WEEKEND. It is obnoxious. As well, you have decreased programming, showing the same things on all three channels. Where I used to be able to see different programming on each of them, more often than not, you get to see a rerun of something that has played on a sister station.
What are you doing with the money you raise? Doesn't seem that it is being used for new programming ( as is being "sold" on the fundraising script...
Really disappointed in public programming since PBS is in charge...
General Content
While I still watch some programming on PBS, I find that some series I used to enjoy, Frontline in particular, no longer provide balanced, non-partisan, reporting. It’s disappointing that a once informative program has become simply another mouthpiece for one political party/position.
Case in point: “Trump’s American Carnage” - with a title like that it’s clear this is nothing but a full-bore attack on Mr Trump and his political party, even though the liberal media and Democratic politicians sowed much of the division and violence.
Maybe Frontline is working on a new episode, titled “Biden’s National Disgrace” recounting (in his first year in office!) his incompetent withdrawal from Afghanistan, failure to secure the US border from historic illegal immigration, hapless efforts to deal with COVID, mounting inflation and supply chain issues, and increasingly violent democrat-led cities?
I won’t hold my breath.
PBS Newhour
Please, please, please rescue the news hour from its rapid descent into inanity. Woodruff has steadily lurched the news show into irrelevance. She invites uninformed partisan guests, who balance opinions into a meaninglessness. She asks irrelevant questions and sparks a conversation with truism from the other side. The viewers can gather no new insight into the complex problems. I cringe on how far the show has fallen from its newsworthiness height of the MacNeil Lehrer or the Lehrer Hour.
Take a good survey. I think you will find that i do not cry alone about declining health of Woodruff's PBS News Hour.
PBS Newshour mainly
Fundraising
PBS Newshour Feminist/African American bias
Judy Woodruff and Sara Just have ruined the PBS Newshour and should be replaced as soon as possible. As a liberal and longtime viewer, I have watched the quality deteriorate drastically since they took over. Their brazen feminist/African American bias is a disgrace to PBS and responsible journalism. They relentlessly push their agenda far beyond the pale in their selection of reporters and stories, with women totally dominating the program night after night ad nauseam. Even though African Americans constitute only about 13% of our population, Woodruff and Just devote a much larger percentage of the stories to them, excluding other minorities and whites from equal coverage. To call their work fair and balanced is ludicrous. They only prove the point that given power women are just as abusive and discriminatory as men.
All Creatures Great And Small
The remake of this program is a travesty! I have read Herriots books, and unless his autobiography was a total lie, I think that he would be devastated to see how his story is being told.
Bob Ross Paintings
I am interested in purchasing a Bob Ross oil painting. I was told by my local PBS station that you station may possibly have painting
Senate override to pass the Freedom to Vote Act
Geogia's Raffensperger; Countering Fake News
The mainstream media (including PBS among other CPB programs) condemns the new voting legislation in Georgia as racist and disenfranchising minorities. It is, in fact, just the opposite. Here are the latest thoughts from Georgia Secretary of State, Republican Brad Raffensperger, who stood strong in 2020 and 2021, facing down Donald Trump's insistence that Georgia find him another 11,800 votes from the 2020 election. Raffensperger alienated Trump by explaining the votes were not there.
In response to the push by President Biden and Chuck Schumer to have the Senate force through the over-reaching Democratic-only supported nationally-controlled voting plan, Raffensperger today (Jan.13, 2022), explained in the Washington Examiner:
"People need to understand in Georgia, we have the appropriate, I think, almost the perfect balance of accessibility," he continued. "Because we have photo ID, we allow you to have all three forms of voting: no-excuse absentee voting, you have to request the ballot, [and] we have signature match and photo ID on that; you show up to vote, we have photo ID for that; you show up on Election Day, we also have that. So we give people lots of opportunity, which has led to record turnout and record registration. I think we've really struck the appropriate balance."
Today, Raffensperger also endorsed launching a new bipartisan presidential commission, similar to 2005's bipartisan Carter-Baker Commission, to make new federal recommendations on the issue and even suggested former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice serve as the Republican co-chair. Currently both Democrats & Republicans recognize that Georgia's new law offers more flexibility to all voters than does Delaware's (Biden's home state), New York's (Schumer's one state), and a number of other states.
CPB should present both sides of controversial issues like this.
PBS all programming
Please stop with the left-leaning, pro black, woke, and "anything anti-republican and white American programming. My God your audience is mostly conservative, and African Americans only make up less than 13% of the population. The American people (especially native Americans) are fed up with ALL media shoving pro-black, anti-white nonsense down our throats!!
Unending fundraisind
We are devoted pbs fans but the fundraising goes on forever to the point that we are increasing unhappy and wondering why we keep watching. What’s up? Is this really necessary?
Frontline and Manipulative Use of Music
I am writing concerning Frontline's use of ominous, drawn-out and threatening music in some of its programming. The content itself is many times already disturbing. I want to access and analyze this content without a soundtrack that leaves me anxious and on edge. It's a news program, not a horror film.
Also the narrator (American Insurrection) uses an odd, sotto voce delivery that seems designed to impart suspense. Again, it's news, not horror.
Sometimes I can't continue watching Frontline even though the content is very important. I want my news to be honest and honestly delivered. Everyday life is too stressful to have this artificial negative stimulation of emotions. Please consider using more neutral music.
Note: I am referring specifically to America After 9/11 and American Insurrection although these are not the only Frontline programs that have used inappropriate music.
PBS Newshour
I am a 77yo retiree, actively follow many news sources, a longtime member of PBS (WTVS Detroit. I have become increasingly disenchanted by the Newshour.Briefly, it now reminds me of why so many people no longer have a daily newspaper delivered. With so many events happening worldwide and everything available almost immediately online, the Newshour seems woefully out of touch. Long segments with two talking heads going on and on ad nauseum. You have a Full Hour to cover a very busy news cycle and I feel it is mostly wasted. In a word - Boring! Whoever is responsible for the model you are using is out of touch. I wait for the BBC news segment which follows my local broadcast. In a half hour I get more news, from a European perspective, than most of what the Newshour delivers. I continue to be a member of PBS, but mainly for the Nature shows, Frontline, etc. I offer these comments with a sincere hope that you will consider what I have said. Thank You.
PBS News Hour
PBS NewsHour has been a great asset in my news consumptions. But lately, in the last year or so, too much time is spent on testimonials, and not the news. So much time in those testimonial segments could be spent on Current pertinent news to the public. Unfortunately, most people I know, or getting news to the previous PBS NewsHour from the BBC news. Take note!
PBS biases
As a leftist, PBS is actually right wing. The only reporters PBS seems to interview are from Washington Post, which is a fascistic propaganda outlet. Why does your organization find it acceptable to I interview people from an organization that wants elites to have EVEN MORE CONTROL???
Judy Woodruff
Judy Woodruff's stuttering and repeated syllables and words, are completely unnerving to me. It has to be obvious to PBS. Do something, please.
BBC broadcast
I normally listen to the BBC on 88.7 on my way home from work (3:15am). The last 2 nights there has been only static, no programming whatsoever. What happened?
Judy Woodruff needs to retire!
Isn’t it high time Judy Woodruff retired and allowed some new faces to refresh the face of PBS News hour. Please , please we are so tired of seeing her as the face of this program. Time to give Amna Nawaz an opportunity to take over the helm. She brings much needed energy to the program! If Judy won’t leave, it’s time to push her out. Thank you!
Jonathan capehart
capehart has many good points-but his bias is thickly palpable-David Brooks is a national treasure, IMO. Hopefully, Capehart can benefit from his exposure to the wisdom of Brooks…