I was in Co. Springs a few weeks in October, 2022. I listened to NPR online via KRCC. I returned to my home in Guatemala and KRCC came with me! It interrupts my NPR programming with its Colorado station. How can I remove KRCC from my laptop?
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Obtaining copies of programs that I have seen on PBS and would like to own
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?
Hosts/Anchors
Why won’t Channel 20 reward their staff rather than bring people in from elsewhere. You have several women doing a great job in the field, etc., and you ignore their service. Jaffnie Gray is a great example of bringing someone in and ignoring current staff. Even Brittany Spears who fills in when the morning staff and does a great job (and there were others there longer than her) was ignored. If she’s good enough to fill in why was she ignored. Also, if you choose to ignore current staff to bring others in, the least you could have someone choose her outfits. It’s sad to see her on air in such horrible outfits and it seems someone could help her!
Reporter
Captions need improvement
The pro basketball player being released
Judy interviewing mike pence
anyone there
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.
News Hour and Washington Week
I am a regular listener and watcher of both programs and I know you are replacing Judy Woodruff on the News Hour. I am a senior and many of my friends also watch and listen but because we are older we have trouble hearing people who speak fast like Amna Nawaz, Lisa Des Jardins, and Yamiche Alcindor. Young people do not get the news from TV but older ones do so they are the major portion of your audience. Also I have noticed that many of your guests on both programs also speak very fast. I suggest you do not replace Judy with either of these three mentioned but rather with Stephanie Sy, Jeff Bennett, John Yang. William Brangham, and/or Jeffrey Brown. If the programs continue to have people who speak rapidly and not clearly I will reconsider my yearly donation to PBS so please speak to them.
donations
how do I make a contribution to the public broadcasting system. Do I do it on a local level?
PBS News Hour
The closed captioning on the PBS News Hour is consistently not synced with the audio. It really makes it difficult for those of us who are hard of hearing.
Please consider creating a PBS/NPR equivalent for social media (a National Public Forum)
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
I would have given more
I used to give thousands of dollars to PBS as it was a big part of my family's life. Passport was a great idea and I was sympathetic to its limitations due to costs. However, I have moved to another city and am forced to use their passport which does not support the shows which I like. I have to log in way too often. In short it is a hassle for what I don't care for. This year, PBS will get the bare minimum for us as we feel that is what we get from you. We feel the rules imposed by CPB are the reason for the failure. We fear that by watching the pennies, you have lost the dollars. PBS has become irrelevant through a lot of its own doing. This is a tragedy. Please consider another structure for online viewing. A little upfront organization on your part could be way more profitable in the long run. I often make recommendations to people who reject the offers because they aren't members. Free samples has always been a successful model when the content is good. PBS still has the best content... but people have become used to sad offerings on other platforms. Please tempt them with something better. To prove my point, people donated when the television showed things for free. During these hard times, people could use something other than YouTube as a free options. We urge you to do something soon.
What is your function?
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.
re: anchors
Dear PBS, Curious if William Brangham was considered for co-anchor with Amna Nawaz? He is a thoughtful and insightful correspondent with a wonderful "broadcasters" voice and for an older person (like myself) very easy to hear and understand. Kindest regards, Jerry Clarke
Judy Woodruff
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.
Music Submission
I am a composer-pianist from Massachusetts. I would like to make my new composition "For Those Not Here" and others available for use my CPC Producers. Please advise.
Here is a listening link to the work: https://open.spotify.com/track/2OTwmI30NkxySWsIDlFZpV?si=06f81dfe62ba481a
I would be delighted to send the full CD, if appropriate, or send other links digitally if preferred.
Dan Kennedy Amherst, MA www.dankennedy.us
Poison Water
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!
bias
Libtards have ruined PBS....Great Job!!! Misinfo on......