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Hello my name is Natalie and my children have looked forward to our local pbs children’s television shows particularly Arthur. I read that Arthur will be showing gay characters getting married. I am dissatisfied that public television chooses to air such controversial topics with tax payers money. I will not allow my children grandchildren or any children to watch any future Arthur shows. And will find another resource for educational television. Very disappointed.

I was very saddened to hear that my favorite children's program, Arthur, has a new episode where Mr. Ratburn comes out as gay and marries another man. Why do we feel the need to indoctrinate children at such a young age into the LGTB agenda? I do not understand why we cannot allow our children to grow up & understand sexuality (after they have already gone through puberty themselves) before subjecting them to lifestyle choices they might not understand (nor need to at a young age), some of which may conflict with their families' religious beliefs.

Please do not politicize such a wholesome, non controversial program for young children. I am disappointed that PBS is falling into this trap. Keep children's programing for children. They'll be force-fed this ideology from elsewhere at a later age but many of us parents count on PBS to deliver high quality educational programing with no political agenda. Sincerely, a disappointed mom of 3 Arthur fans/ high school teacher

You fund Arthur the kids program on pbs. Can we please let kids be kids for a bit longer without indoctrination about gay weddings? Let them decide when they are old enough to understand.

We're very disappointed in the recent homosexual Arthur episode. To encourage small children to enter an unhealthy lifestyle with the highest suicide rates is irresponsible and evil. We will never watch or donate again, and we will fight taxpayer support and vote for anyone who promises to cut it or eliminate it.

I regret to inform you that my family and I will no longer view PBS. My young children watch PBS cartoons daily. I am surprised and upset by the lack of judgement in featuring a gay wedding on a cartoon for young children. I hope that you are a little more considerate about what you choose to expose other people’s children to in the future. It was very arrogant and disrespectful for you to decide how this subject should be presented to my kids. Quit trying to indoctrinate children. You have no right.

I live in Florida, 55555 area code, and I always like to look at Antiques Roadshow, and it’s on the schedule, and the local people have taken and put some kind of stupid musical that they like to hear about. I just wanted to let you know, you want money to keep you going, but you take away what we watch. My number is 555-555-5555. I’m very disgusted with your company

I’ve been your supporter for many years. One of the reasons why I support your programming is because you have an excellent program like Amy Goodman, which comes at the local primetime, not even primetime but you used to put her on at seven o’clock in the morning, and this morning, this is the last day of February, February 28th, you didn’t put her on. I don’t know what happened to her program, you had the Japanese program on instead of her program. And we had the house hearing on Cohen and Trump go on yesterday. And I’m sure Amy Goodman had lots of things to say about that testimony by Cohen. But the point is, you better not cancel her program, otherwise you will not get support from people like us. We think that Amy Goodman is one of the best programs right now. So please do not cancel, or maybe you can move her to the primetime. Anyway, I want to talk your programming department, but you don’t give out that number. So I’m just leaving a message now.

Hi there, I’m offering some feedback on PBS NewsHour with Judy Woodruff. I’m an attorney; I probably have a group of ten or twelve of us who are all graduate school professionals who watch PBS NewsHour, not because we like it, but because we love to see what the other side is saying. When I say other side, what I mean is, the just blatant bias of Judy Woodruff, it is just disgusting. I know you like specific examples, and that’s why I’m calling right now. Tonight, January 29th, I just heard Judy Woodruff try to get Susan Collins, senator Susan Collins, four times to say that she would not support Donald Trump in 2020. She kept rewording the question and trying again. This is what she does; she corrals her guests into saying what she wants them to say. That is disgusting. So the reason I’m calling is, when you look at your ratings, your Nielsen ratings or whatever, never assume that people watch you because we follow you. We are all dropouts from both NPR and PBS, who love to watch it and then sit around and laugh over the weekend at the media bias. Thanks so much for listening.

Hi …, 555-555-5555, calling from the Boston, Massachusetts area, watching PBS NewsHour, enjoy the programming, talking about the Trump, the border wall, the government shutdown. If we could also add into our reporting, just to make it fair and balanced, every government shutdown has been precipitated by someone wanting something. One side holds up another person’s bill or legislation, and if the congressmen want to talk about temper tantrums, look all the way back to Jimmy Carter when the Congress held up, or shut the government down for eleven days for higher wages and leveraging some things with abortion rights. We had another shutdown for Obamacare. It’s the nature of politics; it’s just how politics happens. You put a bill on the floor, we hold it up until you can add some appropriations for us, and if you can add this or that for us into your package, we’ll vote for it, if not, we’re going to hold up your bill, your legislation. It’s the way politics are done; everybody leverages the other person to get what they want, and Trump isn’t the first person to do a shutdown, let’s be fair about how we color this, and what the effects are. I’d like to see that more of that on both sides of PBS. We’ll leave it at that, and I appreciate you letting me leave a comment. Thank you.