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In years past, you could go to the PBS website and purchase videos of programs you had watched (or missed) on your PBS channel. I see nothing like that service on this website. I'd truly like to have copies of several of the American Experience episodes -- if I can afford them! Is such a service still provided? And, if so, how do I access it?

Hello,

Is anyone there? Do you have any reporters on staff? You must know that airing a news release from the US government is printing the concerns of a select few corrupt, career politicians whose main job seems to be looking after the welfare of their big business men buddies. Is anyone there a journalist? Do you fact check any of that garbage. Do you ever investigate any of your sources. Below is a letter to the editor, or a letter to you who obviously control a very tigDate: December 9, 2022

From: Ed D****r PO Box **** Kalispell MT 59903 ****@mail.com (406) ***-**68

To: Letters-to-the Editor (184 words):

Covid Vaccine: The press in this country is owned by an oligarchy of the few. They sow the wind, Let them reap the whirlwind. Never in the history of humanity have so many people been victimized by the robber barons of Big-Pharm. You are about to discover just what the oligarchy sold you with their covid vaccine. Stop – Think – Ask – Change! But this time, change the right things. The robber barons have always been there. They will always be there. They have plenty of Senators, Congressman, and Judges to hide under. This time fix the yes-men who peddle enthusiastic rubbish. Fix the media! From journalism 101: In those countries where the newspapers are full good news — good men are in jail. In those countries where the newspapers are full of bad news — bad men are in jail. Fix the oligarchy! New Federal law: No individual or corporation in the USA who claims to gather or report the news may own, or be owned by, any other corporate identity. It is the intent of the law that no man can serve two masters. --Ed D****r, Kalispell MTht corridor between the oligarch, NPR, and the public you have be commissioned to protect.

how do I make a contribution to the public broadcasting system. Do I do it on a local level?

To Whom It May Concern,

The current events involving Twitter are posing a great risk to our society. Many people, like myself, use Twitter to get snapshots of the news to investigate further. The CPB was founded on a mission to create a more informed public.

Is it possible for CPB to create a National Public Forum) for "civil discourse" that was monitored for truth and accuracy? It would provide a place for journalists committed to public truth to publish verified content. It would be monitored for accuracy which would create jobs. It would provide an additional avenue to increase private donations.

I would be happy to discuss this with anyone who will listen.

-Mike C****o (484) 288-xxxx

First, I think it’s strange that you’re a *private* corporation created and funded by government and managing government resources. Shouldn’t you be public under those circumstances? The public deserves to have more insight and influence into what we’re funding and de facto authorizing. Why is this organization not public?

Second, I think people need more help understanding what it is you actually do. You’re apparently using taxpayer funding to help stations by providing ‘grants, seed money, and operating support’, and you make the comment that you “make “major investments in national content”, but anytime someone has a question or criticism, your standard response is ‘we don’t have any influence or input to programs or content’. I’m trying to understand how this is possible and what your function actually is. Are you purely processing disbursements from government direction without any strategy or analysis on your part? If so, who is providing the direction? And do we really need a private corporation to do that? Where’s the taxpayer benefit? If you do have some true managerial/ developmental/ operational oversight, how is it you give the same form letter response to everyone saying you don’t? If you keep getting comments talking about bad reporting and bias for instance (in violation of NPR/ PBS posted mission statements and code of ethics), how is it that your only response is to say that’s not your area? If you’re making managerial/ developmental/ operational investments and have that kind of business relationship, shouldn’t you at least be collecting these comments for feedback, internal policy/ process decisions, or at least some kind of report? Shouldn’t you be able to point commenters to some kind of official surveys or feedback process you have for your taxpayer funded entity? From this vantage point (with such limited/ non-existent information) it seems kind of like a shell game. It looks as though you are either an unnecessary organization, you’re not being fully upfront about your role, or you’re being used as a means to intentionally block public input into public broadcasting.

When the MacNeil-Lehrer Report first appeared in the 1970s, it was a shiny city on the hill in the wasteland of TV news. They would devote each show to a single issue, with opposing advocates sitting at the same table as they were interviewed by Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer. They were thus forced to make their best arguments because they could be immediately rebutted. The show did not tell the viewers what to think. They trusted the viewers to make up their own minds after hearing both sides of the story.

As the MacNeil-Lehrer Report became the PBS NewsHour and Judy Woodruff took over, she destroyed this once great show. She turned it into a propaganda program. Only one side of an issue is presented, the left wing side. For the weekly roundtable, they hired fake-conservative Jonathan Capehart as the conservative counterpart to liberal David Brooks. Instead of offering conservative arguments, Capehart seems to always agree with Brooks.

The Savannah River is so polluted that most people who live in a large sector in Savannah and around Savannah live on bottled water, water gotten once a month at a person’s favorite spring! No one should swallow one drop of that water!