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We want Truth! Full and accurate News NOT biased Opinions

Florida
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I have stopped watching PBS News and some of the other programs because too much of the truth is left out. Reporters of News and producers of certain documentaries purposely pick and choose what they want to report either based on their personal belief or that of PBS. The public is given only a one sided version of the truth. The Media in general never reports all the facts and continues to incite and divide people more so than any of the politicians out there. When Gwen Ifill was reporting in the 2016 election after Trump had announced his running for President, She refused to initially report or acknowledge that fact he was running for President even though it was public knowledge and obvious News. Another program I watched recently on Islam was very one sided - did not tell the Truth about Muhammed being a warrior who conquered others lands and took slaves and murdered members of his own tribe, they made him out to be a peace loving person guided by god which is far from the truth. The program did not tell the truth about Islam and their hatred and persecution of Jews, Christians and homosexuals and the Sharia and honor killings. If you can't tell the whole truth then don't air the program. Very Disappointing direction PBS has taken and ALL the Media. News reporters should represent all sides and the facts as they exist not just their personal opinions and they should not try to influence people a direction because of ideology. The only thing worth watching on PBS these days are the travel shows, cooking and gardening. You should get out of the News business, we don't need anymore biased propaganda.

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Ruff Rufman

June 17, 2020
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Hello. 

 

I would like all of you to fund FETCH! with ruff ruffman because I really want this show to come back. Please fund this show so we can have it back to us. 

 

Thanks!!!

 

quinonesb013. 

Note from CPB: Thank you for contacting the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and for your support of FETCH. THE RUFF RUFFMAN SHOW was developed as part of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and PBS Ready To Learn Initiative with funding from the U.S. Department of Education. Ready To Learn is a federal program that supports the development of innovative educational television and digital media targeted at preschool and early elementary school children and their families. You can view Ruff Ruffman shows and games at https://pbskids.org/.

Leftwing propaganda

Kentucky
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Please tell PBS journalists(one in particular, we all know who) to stop being so rude and racist while the rest of Americans are trying to listen to the President. You have become a leftwing propaganda mechanism, and have lost this viewer and monies contributer. Good Riddens! Be unbiased before you lose more...

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.

NPR

Georgia
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"right wing extremist using cars to attack" is propaganda that is causing anger. NPR should be defunded and classified as terrorist for its LIES against The American Citizens.

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Fundraiser Program Content - Dr. Steven Gundry, The Longevity Paradox, as presented on Georgia Public Broadcasting, Atlanta, GA

Georgia
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This past week has been pledge week, and one of the special programs on Georgia Public Broadcasting was "The Longevity Paradox with Dr. Steven Gundry." I watched, as a loyal PBS supporter for decades, and I was seduced by his charming presentation, ending up with $180 being donated to PBS to receive his program in 6-8 weeks. Being close to 75 years of age but with some sense left in my head, I then did some research on Dr. Gundry's conclusion and found that he was just the opposite of what is considered scientific and beneficial to the public. Numerous respectable sources consider his research and conclusions slipshod and even dangerous. I have written to Dr. Gundry, and I have requested my PBS contribution be cancelled in full. I want nothing to do with his questionable products or conclusions. I want you to know this so as not to allow him back on any PBS stations in the future for fundraisers. He is not a helpful influence. Please consider my advice. Sincerely, Bruce M. Gregory, Atlanta, GA

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 programming decisions on PBS or local public television and radio stations. Your comments will have more weight if you contact your local station directly.

Defund PBS

Virginia
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No more federal fund8ng for pbs and their brainwashing

Note from CPB: Thank you for contacting us with your concern about funding for CPB and the public media organizations it supports. Public media is a public-private partnership in the best tradition of America’s free enterprise system. By law, the majority of the federal funds goes through CPB, a private, nonprofit corporation, to more than 1,500 locally owned and operated public television and radio stations across the country. 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. We look forward to working with the Administration and Congress in raising awareness of how the national investment in public broadcasting pays huge dividends in education, public safety and civic leadership to millions of Americans and their families.

Dirty Mirror Mix cover song by Philip Miller

Alabama
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Dirty Mirror Mix cover song by Philip Miller

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg0F8dMK10Q

I could not record my own tracks in Lockdown so I made a screening from an earlier Cover Song Mix recording.

(**I do not have the copyright to the songs or lyrics in this video. Online under fair use and entertainment)

But I sang, performed and made the mix and video edit.

Original Twilight Album by Philip Miller

https://www.amazon.com/Twilight-Album-Philip-Miller/dp/B07P92F39G

My Facebook page has some of the most advanced flight technology now working within the last five years. Take a look:

https://m.facebook.com/philip.miller.50951?refid=7

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Sit and Be Fit

June 22, 2020
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Well. I just wanted to let you know that I go online every morning. I was trying to start Sit and be Fit, which my doctor told me was very good. Did you take that off or something? I couldn't find it this morning. I hope it didn't get removed. 

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Raul Bias, CPB?

Virginia
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SUBJECT: Rural Bias, CPB? COMMENT: It's great to see that rural public media stations received $75 million via CPB through the CARES Act to stay alive during the coronavirus crisis, but it's hard not to think of "rural" as code for "white" in this context. If the CPB ombudsperson were to closely examine the people benefiting from this windfall, what would they look like?

Note from CPB: Thank you for contacting the Corporation for Public Broadcasting with your comment regarding CPB funding. CPB received $75 million in funding through the CARES Act and distributed the entirety of this funding to public television and radio stations across the country. Every public media station received funding, with additional funding provided to small and rural stations, as stipulated by Congress in the CARES Act. Further, every public media station that serves a majority-minority audience or is licensed by an HBCU received the maximum level of funding distributed from the CARES Act. You can find a list of grantees and their funding from the CARES Act on the CPB website: https://www.cpb.org/files/aboutcpb/financials/funding/FY-2020-CARES-Act-Stabilization-Funding.pdf

Technical Issues

June 22, 2020 from Arizona
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I can't get PBS on the TV today. I can't watch all my favorite shows and can't figure out what is wrong. I give like twenty dollars, which is extravagant on my social security budget. I watch PBS all the time and its not on the TV now. Thank you for your awesome programming.

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Finding Your Roots

California
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I would like to contact the show regarding the 1850 and 1860 slave censuses that Dr. Gates mentions about not having names. I have been trying to find a way to start a program where names can be added to those censuses using the 1870 census, probate records, and records such as tax lists and slave sales. Also making use of the plantation records themselves - for instance, I used to work for Alex Haley and we discovered that the family cookbook for the Jackson family (for the series "Queen") that is in a college library in Alabama had the slave births and deaths recorded at the end of the book. Other records like this should exist. It would be a major project but it might help connect families better. I used to work in Salt Lake City also, and knew Johni Cerny. I was sorry to hear about her death.

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. You may want to contact the station producing Finding Your Roots, WETA: https://weta.org/contact.

NPR Editorial

June 23, 2020
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Hey let me ask you a******* something. If you're on the street and armed thugs wearing a mask came up to your car, What the f*** would you do? Ya'll need to stop spreading these lies or we're coming to find you. Goodbye.

Sit and Be Fit

June 23, 2020
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I would like to thank you for airing several very good programs, all very good. I especially like Sit and Be Fit with Mary Ann Wilson. Thank you.

The talk - what happened?

New York
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WNET received a big grant from CPB to support a civic engagement campaign for this important film about race in America way back in 2017. Yet there is no sign of how the money was spent, or made a difference. Where can people go to learn more about what happened with WNET's "The Talk" grant?

Note from CPB: In 2015, CPB invested $1.15 million in the development and production of The Talk, a groundbreaking two-hour documentary through WNET about the common conversation taking place in homes and communities across the country between parents of color and their children, especially sons, regarding how to behave if they are ever stopped by the police. CPB also contracted with WNET to provide engagement activities around "The Talk" for a further $400,000. CPB and WNET spent many months working to refine and review the engagement plan to meet program goals and expectations, taking care to design a broad and most effective multimedia approach. With several engagement activities planned around the February 2017 premiere of "The Talk," WNET requested CPB redirect engagement funds to create more programming about issues surrounding the police and communities of color throughout the year. Nearly $260k was allocated to PBS NewsHour Weekend to fund at least 12 original reporting segments that examine, in-depth, race in America focusing on criminal justice, jobs, education and families.

PBS News Hour

California
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I’ve written to PBS previously imploring you to not broadcast anything which includes a clip of Trump. At minimum, please do not include his voice. I suspect there are still people who are repulsed by seeing and hearing Hitler and Mussolini. I am repulsed by both seeing and especially hearing Trump. His is the worst of humankind. Yesterday’s (6/24) PBS Newshour included at least 4 clips of that monster, including his pontificating. I had to leave the room each time, and finally turned off the program entirely.

Please, the PBS Newshour, and especially Judy Woodruff’s contributions to it, is a vitally important source of objective, balanced, and insightful reporting. Including clips of Trump does not enhance its newsworthiness, and in fact is a terrible detraction.

Thank you,

Steve Perls Lafayette, CA tel: 925-389-1434

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NPR Editorial

May 30, 2020
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I think NPR has been a terrible radio station. It's just a left wing propaganda outlet and so is the public broadcasting company. I think they should be made to pay taxes and to implement the fairness doctrine that use to be the principle for all broadcast media

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Sit and Be Fit

June 16, 2020
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Hello, I am an 87 year-old widow in Texas. I wanted to tell you that I very much appreciated the program you put on Sit and be Fit. I give it credit for keeping in physical form and also from keeping me from falling. Thank you very much. However, now the schedule has changed and it is airing at 5:30 in the morning. Who is up and ready to exercise at 5:30 in the morning? With no computer I very much relied on this program airing on TV. I think it was a wonderful public service for older folks. Do you think that you could get it restored to a decent time? For instance, 9 AM Central Time would be perfect. Thank you so much for whatever you can do for me.

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Political Bias

California
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It's very obvious that you have reporters that hold a bias against President Trump. A very biased reporter is your own Yamiche who is constantly trying get get the President and his press secretary with gotcha questions and is reporting fake news! I don't see why I should have to have my tax dollars supporting a one sided news agency.

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 about PBS NewsHour will have more weight at PBS: https://www.pbs.org/about/contact-information/

PBS News Hour

Florida
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Dear PBS News Hour Staff--

I am upset and appalled at the placement of a PBS News Hour donation solicitation featuring two old white people which cut into the reporting about systemic racism in America and the interview with Black men in Minneapolis who were accused by an old white man of using a gym without permission.

Just in the middle of a statement by one of the men, the was a "commercial" interruption of two old white people asking for donations to PBS and specifically in support of the PBS News Hour. This was absolutely appalling! At this point in time, there could not have been worse timing. This donation ask last for for SIX MINUTES! There was important information that was being shared and this pledge pitch cut into the news. Six minutes late, when the pitch was done, the viewers were returned to the PBS News Hour SIX MINUTES further into the broadcast. We were not returned to where the interruption happened. Even more disturbing was that the PBS News Hour ended one minute later, at 7:54. This means there were SIX MINUTES until the top of the hour, when the next program was starting. That pledge pitch didn't have to interrupt the News Hour.

You literally interrupted a young Black man in the middle of an interview, showed us two old white people asking for donations to PBS and the PBS News Hour and they kept going on and on about the great tote bag the we will all be able to carry around to prove we are part of the same community...

MY COMMUNITY WOULD NOT HAVE INTERRUPTED IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT RACIAL INJUSTICE IN AMERICA TO ASK FOR DONATIONS AND DISCUSS THE MERITS OF HAVING MATCHING TOTE BAGS!

This is outrageous.

You should be embarrassed and ashamed.

Sincerely,

Tiza Garland

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Live from Here

June 17, 2020
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I'm calling to say that I'm deeply disappointed that Live from Here is being canceled. It was the biggest vehicle, or only vehicle, that I had for ever donating to public radio. Without that, I think that it will end up costing NPR more dollars. I really hope you reinstate the show.

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