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I have watched (and supported) our local public TV channel (Ch. 9 KQED) here in the SF Bay Area for nearly 50 years. Judy Woodruff has had a long and distinguished career. So it pains me to urge you to see her into retirement. She has lost her edge; her engagement with others is no longer crisp and smart as it should be. She is simply too old to do the job effectively. I am 82 so I think I know a little about age. With all due respect, please encourage her to turn the hosting of the nightly show over to a younger person--and there are a great many of those who appear nightly with her who could succeed in that position--perhaps co-hosting with Hari Shrinivasan? He is outstanding in his hosting of the weekend program. Thank you

I'm reading your website and under "who you are" there's a list of things that are lettered that say "achieve our goals." Item C says you want to "produce high-quality content, including news and information, that is accurate, fair, balanced, objective." I just really want to know if you believe that. After watching the Republican and Democratic conventions, I was appalled at the prejudice. During the Democratic Conventions, everyone was kissing up to the speakers, saying how wonderful they are, all your pundits and commentators. During the Republican Convention, it was absolutely and totally critical. That can't possibly be fair and balanced reporting. I think it's a disgrace. From now on, when we do something political like that, please keep your commentators out of the action or put in a balance of conservative and liberal commentators. We are totally disgusted with PBS these days. 

CPB is the group that should be "defunded". How can you allow NPR & PBS go on and on about being fair & unbiased when they so strongly support the left. News Hour & Washington Week are now just Democrat advocates & Trump bashers. JR Nott Grand Island, NE

I have been watching the News Hour for over twenty years but I can’t remember a time where the news are so biased against Trump and the Republican Party. Judy Woodruff does not miss an opportunity to chastise both. It is so obvious that is ridiculous. No wonder I hear the president wants to defund you. I really miss Gwen Ifill and Jim Lehrer. Please correct for the country’s sake.

My husband and I are appalled that you are using children's shows to push socialism and leftist information. The riots in Portland have ruined a once beautiful city. We are offended that anyone thinks this is ok! We are canceling our membership to OPB PBS.

I love PBS, but News Hour needs to stop leaning to the left and get it to the center. I'll give one example from yesterdays program, when talking about the presidents response to the protesters that were shout by that young man they said he shot the protesters but failed to mention that they were attacking him and said the president was defending the action, but he said it was under investigation. The people need to hear both sides. If they are unable to do that, then PBS should have their funding taken away. As it stands now, News Hour is a waste of tax payer dollars. Just so you know, I voted for Clinton the last election and I'm leaning towards Biden for the up coming election.

again, i call bias. You are using the words of trump's niece, clearly anti-trump and selling a book. Meanwhile, poor little Joey(?) Let's all grab the kleenex. Let's all also remember he has been in office 47 yrs! Rich beyond means b/c he is a career politician...oh but poor poor Joe! This is PBS showing their true blue colors.

For many years I had appreciated the professionalism of The PBS Newshour management and staff. Both McNeil and Jim Lehrer had an uncanny ability to facilitate the contrasting or opposing views of their numerous expert analysts. Unfortunately, those days are long gone. The managing editor Ms. Judy Woodruff does not particularly care to host much in the way of contrasting/opposing perspectives either as expert analysts or as her correspondents. There are other reasons why the PBS Newshour has deteriorated in quality. I do not have time to go into detail. The following staff are a detriment to the program and should be replaced:

Ms. Judy Woodruff: She worked with McNeil and Lehrer and was very familiar with the objective philosophy prevalent at PBS at The Newshour. Apparently she has elected to change horses in mid-stream to a highly partisan one sided and bigoted production exemplified by her poor choice of correspondents, specifically:

Lisa DesJardin- Her family has donated how much money to CPB and PBS. Partisan Correspondent with poor journalistic skills.

Y. Alcindor-Partisan Correspondent with poor journalistic skills.

Shields and Brooks- Obsolete Editorials Infuriatingly one sided partisan, lacks fairness and objectivity.

The only one who does a good job consistently in Miles O' Brien. He should be made interim Managing Editor. Let Woodruff stay under the condition she goes back to the way she interviewed during the time of The McNeil Lehrer Newshour and replace all of the rest

I am deeply concerned that NPR is running articles for a pro-Looting book entitled "In Defense of Looting". The title is not ironic or sarcastic like "In Praise of Folly" or something, which is what I thought before paging through the book's sample pages on Amazon. I thought this might have been something like that at first. It's not. The book literally advocates theft and rioting, and among other things that make no sense, claims private property is racist, which doesn't even make sense from an Anarchist perspective, since property just wouldn't exist. "Property is theft" is the line from Proudhoun, if I recall. I'm a lifelong liberal, and social justice advocate (I taught in the prisons and I have a program for undeserved adult learners), but this is just absurd. I can't believe taxes are funding this trash.

Here's the article. I would have thought the person who sent me the link was lying, as well.

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/08/27/906642178/one-authors-argument-in-defense-of-looting

You need to address this. ASAP.

I already have to worry about COVID-19 and how little the gov't did, now I have to worry about intermittent riots and my tax dollars doing PR work for rioters? Thanks, no.

I'm also writing my congressman and senator. I have listened to cartalk for years and I know NPR has had fine shows, and am a huge believer in public programming, but this is just appalling. I think the total and complete lack of standards needs to be addressed and they need to stop promoting violent, insane anarchists who advocate crimes if they want public monies. These types of maniacs are going to get Trump re-elected and get public broadcasting defunded.

For the love of God, take care of this. I enjoy watching Neil Coward and Broadway on PBS. I'd like to continue to do so.

Michael Murdoch 347-247-7681 michaelmurdoch0@gmail.com