Your Feedback

CPB seeks to make public broadcasting more accessible to the public it serves. To do so CPB maintains a toll-free, 24-hour telephone line (1-800-272-2190), an online contact form, and accepts letters sent directly to CPB.

All comments are available on this website to be viewed by the general public. Each year, by statute, CPB transmits this public link to the White House for its report to Congress. Additionally, comments pertaining to programming are shared with the CPB Board of Directors and relevant public media staff.

Search:

CA is not as vigilant about COVID 19 as reported on the news

California
Feedback:
COVID 19 TASTES GOOD LIKE A PANDEMIC SHOULD The question of whether or not there are "Nazis in the Whitehouse” is better asked "Today, as opposed to the end of World War II, how MANY Nazis do we have in the Whitehouse and what are they doing there?” Nazi COVID 19 plan COULD BE to do the opposite of 1933 and to go for the non-essential children and young adults last. The American Nazis aren’t worried. Their PLAN to kill 6.5 billion 'useless eaters'. Why don't you report AGENDA 21?

About Your Shows

Oregon
Feedback:
Dear CPB, I like your shows and your web sites. Hope you're doing well.

Newshour

Texas
Feedback:
Hi - Please forward to Mark Shields at the Newshour. Dear Mr. Shields, I have been an admirer of your work for decades. You seemed a little down on tonight's Newshour. Hopefully you and your family are doing well; I will pray that you all stay safe and healthy. Esther Colwell

CPB propaganda

Georgia
Feedback:
#DEFUND PBS

Mandy Gonzales

Maryland
Feedback:
I am a 80 yr old who has heard many versions of our national anthem over the years. However, the performance last night by Mandy Gonzalez on A Capitol 4th was so good it gave me goose bumps and brought tears to my eyes. Fortunately it was near the beginning so I could hear it a second time as repeated the broadcast. Please send her my best. Stephen Meskin

PBS NewsHour

North Carolina
Feedback:

Why on earth would you give Peter Navarro a soapbox? He didn’t answer Judy’s questions. Why didn’t she cut him off?

Note from CPB: Thank you for contacting the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. We welcome all comments about public media’s content and services. However, CPB is prohibited from interfering with editorial decisions related to programming on PBS or local public television and radio stations. Your comments will have more weight if you contact PBS directly: http://www.pbs.org/about/contact/viewer-services/

Reporting Bias

Illinois
Feedback:

I used to watch the McNeil - Lehrer without fail. It was superb and about as unbiased as one can expect. Today the 'news' reported is highly selective and is basically an extension of the Left and the Democratic Party. Honestly , it is rather pathetic and a joke trying to pose as 'journalism.' Today , I might watch it for a few minutes just to see the thinking/propaganda of the liberal establishment. Then I turn it off.

Unfortunately there is no TV news that even tries to offer objectivity. PBS, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN are conventional Left and Fox is conventional Right with MSNBC being far Left. PBS could provide a real service by reporting the news like in the old days and then have a segment of balanced political pundits for the remaining hour of the segment. Of course, that will not happen, PBS is committed to its Leftist focus.

Too bad. With very few exceptions (again when it ventures into the political realm) PBS offers excellent- the best on TV.

Note from CPB: Thank you for contacting the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. We welcome all comments about public media’s content and services. However, CPB is prohibited from interfering with editorial decisions related to programming on local public television and radio stations. Your comments will have more weight if you contact your local station directly.

The Suite Life of Zack and Cody was kinda weird...

Kansas
Feedback:

The Suite Life of Zack and Cody was kinda weird...

Note from CPB: Thank you for contacting the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Although CPB does not produce or distribute programming, we welcome all comments about public media’s content and services. Each local public broadcasting station makes its own programming choices, as CPB is prohibited from interfering with editorial decisions related to programming on local public television and radio stations. However, The Suite Life of Zach and Cody is not distributed to public media stations and does not air on public television.

Voter Fraud

Georgia
Feedback:

Will CPB report on California voter fraud?

Note from CPB: Thank you for contacting the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Although CPB does not produce or distribute programming, we welcome all comments about public media’s content and services. Each local public broadcasting station makes its own programming choices, as CPB is prohibited from interfering with editorial decisions related to programming on local public television and radio stations. Your comments have more weight at PBS and your local public media station, Georgia Public Broadcasting.

PBS NewsHour

July 24, 2020
Feedback:

Hello. I watch Judy Woodruff and I am almost stricken with Mark Shields inability to hold to the subject and the way he wonders. Is there anything you can do to help him with his elderlyness and his message. He is no longer a good reciprocal partner with David Brooks and doesn't even begin to meet the intellectual capacity of Brooks.

Note from CPB: Thank you for contacting the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. We welcome all comments about public media’s content and services. However, CPB is prohibited from interfering with editorial decisions related to programming on PBS or local public television and radio stations. Your comments will have more weight if you contact PBS NewsHour directly: viewermail@newshour.org

Very loud programs/commercials in-between programs.

Ohio
Feedback:

While watching programs on Dayton Ohio Think tv, Channel 16/14 via antenna on a daily basis, the volume of the upcoming programs or commercials if you want to call them that, are tremendously, tremendously loud once the program has ended. So much so that I have to lower the volume a great deal ahead of the ending of the current program to eliminate the blaring high volume. While I have loved PBS for ages, I'm not so much in love with this huge volume issue.

Thank you for your time and your great public service.

Note from CPB: Thank you for contacting the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). CPB does not broadcast programming. CPB also does not own or operate local stations. Please contact your local station, ThinkTV, with your concerns.

Political content

Michigan
Feedback:

You are funded primarily with 445 mil. federal tax dollars. You allow very left leaning programs much politically charged with the Democratic agenda As a tax payer I resent the use of tax dollars to allow any political content unless it is documented truth, not someones personal take on any situation, or a sometimes not so subtle condemnation of the present administration The only reason I have at all for watching PBS is some of the BBC's better offerings , in deference to a political hack or four bozos with big hats, cowboy boats and a guitar to fill the void.

Note from CPB: Thank you for contacting the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Although CPB does not produce or distribute programming, we welcome all comments about public media’s content and services. Each local public broadcasting station makes its own programming choices, as CPB is prohibited from interfering with editorial decisions related to programming on local public television and radio stations. Your comments will have more weight if you contact your local public media station.

PBS Newshour - Judy Woodruff

Illinois
Feedback:

Hello,

I've noticed Judy Woodruff has not been hosting the PBS Newshour for the past 2 evenings (starting Monday, July 13, 2020); it's been hosted by Amna Nawaz. Why? Ms. Nawaz does a good job, but I very much prefer Ms. Woodruff. There is something about Ms. Woodruff's calm, self-composed, reassuring, clearheaded demeanor which allows her to ask probing questions while still maintaining a distance, an apparent objectivity, and a professionalism, that is extremely rare in journalism. Also, I see Ms. Woodruff as having earned, in what was a male-dominated profession, and continuing to deserve, her anchor position - I am concerned that ageism and/or reverse discrimination attitudes in PBS and the wider world may now be working against her. Ms. Nawaz is young, and she may, with experience, sound a tad less judgmental when interviewing guests (she projects no obvious party bias - just a slightly judgmental tone) - but I say, let Ms. Woodruff anchor until she doesn't want to or can't - like any of the famous male anchors before her.

Note from CPB: Thank you for contacting the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. We welcome all comments about public media's content and services. However, CPB neither owns, operates, nor controls broadcast stations and does not produce or distribute content. Please contact PBS NewsHour with you concerns: viewermail@newshour.org

RIOTS

Georgia
Feedback:

WILL THE CPB REPORT RIOT SHOOTING PEOPLE IN THEIR CARS

Note from CPB: Thank you for contacting the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. We welcome all comments about public media’s content and services. However, CPB does not produce or broadcast content and is prohibited from interfering with editorial decisions related to programming on PBS or local public television and radio stations. Your comments will have more weight if you contact your local station, Georgia Public Broadcasting, directly.

PBS NewsHour

July 13, 2020 from Maryland
Feedback:

Tonight on Judy Woodruff's report, Lisa Desjardins said that a pardon is technically for someone that has already served their sentence. When Richard Nixon was pardoned by Gerald Ford he had not served a sentance. It is unclear and ambigious what she said. Please clarify this.

Note from CPB: Thank you for contacting the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. We welcome all comments about public media’s content and services. However, CPB is prohibited from interfering with editorial decisions related to programming on PBS or local public television and radio stations. Your comments will have more weight if you contact PBS directly: http://www.pbs.org/about/contact/viewer-services/

Wyoming PBS liberal bias

Wyoming
Feedback:

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for reading my comments. 07/24 I turned 65, a 20-year resident of Wyoming. What happened? Where is journalism without left bias? Report the news and let me decide thank you very much; we’re not idiots that need you to explain it to us.

Note from CPB: Thank you for contacting the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. We welcome all comments about public media’s content and services. However, CPB is prohibited from interfering with editorial decisions related to programming on PBS or local public television and radio stations. Your comments will have more weight if you contact your local station directly: https://www.wyomingpbs.org/contact-us/

Sit and Be Fit

July 13, 2020
Feedback:

I watch Sit and Be Fit all the time and I enjoy the program a lot. I just wanted to let you know that viewers enjoy it and we don't want to see it go away.

Note from CPB: Thank you for contacting the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. We welcome all comments about public media’s content and services. However, CPB does not produce or broadcast content. Your programming suggestion would have more weight at your local station.

Possible program

New Jersey
Feedback:

Last year while in Gothenburg, Sweden I visited the Rohsska museum. . They had a an exhibition concerning the environment. I watched a film there about the life of a plastic bag. It was moving. In fact I cried at the end. The film was in English. Since then, I have often thought that this film would be fabulous shown on PBS, as it would educate so many about plastic bags and just what becomes of them. Perhaps, people will reconsider their use, after seeing this thought provoking film. Thank you for your consideration to this request, Barbara Samuels

Note from CPB: Thank you for contacting the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). By law CPB is prohibited from producing or broadcasting programming. Please contact PBS with your suggestion at http://www.pbs.org/about/faq/contact-us/.

NPR Editorial

July 12, 2020
Feedback:

I would like to see if anyone could do an investigation of NPR. The words that they're using contains a lot of bias, unconscious bias. The host of the program Latino USA said that someone's mother "went back to Mexico because she was so tired of being undocumented." I fully understand the circumstances. However, I don't think she could be "tired of being undocumented" because she wasn't supposed to be here from the very start. It's very interesting the wording that they use. It creates an unconcious bias of liberalism.

Note from CPB: Thank you for contacting the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. We welcome all comments about public media’s content and services. However, CPB is prohibited from interfering with editorial decisions related to programming on NPR or local public television and radio stations. Your comments will have more weight if you contact NPR directly.

Agenda

Illinois
Feedback:

So tell me why I should let my tax dollars fund public broadcasting when it is very left leaning in its views and shows? I thought journalism was supposed to be non-biased.....doesn't appear that way

Note from CPB: CPB promotes the growth and development of public media in communities throughout the country by providing funding to local public broadcasting stations (both TV and radio). CPB itself produces no programming, but helps support the production of broadcast programs and other services for multiple digital platforms by thousands of producers and production companies throughout the country. CPB, PBS, and NPR are independent of each other and of the local public television and radio stations across the country. CPB neither owns, operates, nor controls broadcast station and is prohibited from interfering with editorial decision at local public broadcasting stations. Your comments will have more weight at your local station.