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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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Peg + Cat

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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CPB Merch

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*******

PBS

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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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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