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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.

I’m calling because I want to donate this evening before the end of the night; I know it’s late, but still I want to donate. And, in doing so, I’ve had difficulty because I’ve filled everything out, and the last page, just before the donation, I have everything in there, and a highlight comes up: “Payment information required,” which I’ve put on there, my card number: “Unknown card type.” And I made sure it said credit debit card. Now why won’t that go through? I keep saying complete your donation, and it says, “Oops, some information is missing.” Well, “Payment information required,” I don’t know what they want. And “Unknown card type,” well, I pressed Visa. I want to get this done tonight. If somebody is there, and probably not, or if somebody is there, I’d like a callback. Thank you. My number is 555-555-5555, and I was a donator last year as well, I don’t know when that expires. Okay, see if you can help me out. Bye-bye.

Hi this is … in Los Angeles. 555-555-5555. A couple of comments about your comments line, such. The public broadcasting stations are becoming more like Pacifica Foundations, which has KPFK, and so forth. They’re always selling merchandise. They’re as much a merchandising operation as they are a broadcast operation. It’s not good. And the public broadcasting stations in Los Angeles have not lived up to the promises that they made when they were organized 40-50 years ago. KCET, they answer Community Educational Television, has failed to do that. Also, it has, around fundraising time, endless doctors telling you how to live better, longer, healthier, all of that: diet, exercise, psychology, all kinds of stuff. It’s really embarrassing. The whole concept of giving grants to these people seems questionable to me when they’re not really serving the public interest the way they could. Admittedly, they’re better than commercial television, but not what they could be. They just have not lived up to the standards that we expect. We have a problem in this country with the educational system, and public broadcasting stations could ameliorate that problem, but they don’t. A great many of their programs are nothing but high-class soap operas. Anyway, if someone wants to talk to me more, that’s okay, I’d love to hear from you, if you’ve got other things to do, that’s okay too. I appreciate the work you’re doing, your intentions are great. I think sometimes you fall short, maybe it’s because you don’t have any other alternatives. Anyway, enough from me, goodbye, thanks again.

I am a public broadcasting service viewer. I’ve been watching your programs for four months now. I’m disgusted with you people. Put on some American news. We don’t give one crap about what’s going on in other countries. I want to know what’s going in my country. And I’m going to make sure you people, PBS, are off the system forever. I’m reporting it to the President. Goodbye.

Hi I’m watching one of the PBS NewsHour programs and they’re talking about the census. I’m just wondering if we can simplify process as an intelligent race of people who live in this country. Voting rights are for US citizens. If you are a citizen, you have the right to vote. If you are not a citizen, you do not have the right to vote. If you are filling out a census, you’re a citizen, you’re a resident. If you’re here on a visa or some other temporary form of residency… In an age where national security is so intense, don’t we have records of who is in this country, here on a visa, here on a student visa, here on a work visa, or here on asylum or some other immigration step or process? Our immigration bureaus should have all that information. All that information should be known and separate from what is included in the census and the census should be US citizens and those people who are 18 or older or 21 or older.. and who has the voting right is dependent on your age for a US citizen. That’s it. Once you turn 18 you have the right to vote. You’re a US citizen, you have the right to vote. If you’re not a US citizen, you do not have the right to vote. If you’re an illegal immigrant or you’re here illegally under any category, you’re not going to fill out a census and tell people oh by the way I’m here illegal. Illegal anything is still a crime. You’re not going to admit that on a census. I’m here illegally and by the way I live at this address when I’m sleeping on a mattress down in someone’s basement. I’m not sure where the dialogue is going with this but we’ve seem to lost our minds about how we all have complicated this in this country. Anything you can do to uh feedback would be really appreciate.. anything you can do get a different dialogue going on something that comes back to making sense.

Hi, I am just calling to tell you that I really am doing some of the exercise programs that are included in the Milwaukee area for the channel that is public TV. I really like Sit and Be Fit, Classical Stretch, and Body Electric and I am hoping that you will continue to support those.

My family has been fans of the PBS New Hour for decades. No longer. What was an hour of thoughtful news analysis has devolved into a variety show. The news now takes up about a half of the hour. The remainder is devoted to infotainment in the form of cultural and human interest subjects. We routinely turn it off when the news part finishes. We would argue that a minority of viewers find the cultural and human interest segment appealing. Has PBS done any polling of its viewers on this? The other argument for sticking to what the news hour does best is the desperate need in these politically fraught times for dispassionate evidence based discussions of policies. Surely you cannot argue that the cultural/human interest part is more important. Please reconsider your format before you lose your audience.

Although I watch PBS and listen to NPR , and have for the last 50 years, BUT I can not be believe how liberal slanted your coverage is now, if it is not fake news, it is propaganda with the liberal take on every article or news report, it is a tool that does not deserve one red cent from the government or me personally, . Your lack of professional journalistic ethics is more representative of a third world country news reporting . I plan to contact my congressmen to report your total disrespect for half of the citizens ( conservatives) and hopefully we can force you to balance what you call reporting or totally defund and bring you to a balance in your words or KILL you altogether as a network.