I mentioned in a Mailbag a few weeks ago that viewers, at least those who write to me, haven't seemed very stirred-up in recent months about many PBS offerings, and that leaves the PBS NewsHour as the program that is... More »
An eight-and-a-half-minute segment on the PBS NewsHour last Monday evening about the use of sobriety checkpoints on California highways produced a small, brief but critical flurry of e-mail from viewers who felt that the presentation was too sympathetic to undocumented,... More »
Like a lot of other people and places, the ombudsman and his office were snowed in for much of the past week. E-mail, however, is pretty much weather-proof so the correspondence has continued and here is a sampling of what... More »
The volume of mail landing in the ombudsman's mailbox seems to have slowed in the last several months. Maybe that's good news for PBS and means that viewers are finding less to complain about. Or maybe it's just the winter... More »
