document.write('<style type=\"text/css\"> 	.blogrssfeedtitle {font:bold 8pt verdana;text-decoration:underline;} 	.magicblogrss {font:7pt verdana;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:12px} 	.blogrsstitle {font:bold 7pt verdana;text-decoration:underline;} 	.blogrssdate {font:7pt verdana;font-style:italic;} 	.blogrssdesc {font:7pt verdana;} 	.blogbox { 		border: 1px solid #000000; 		font: 7pt verdana; 		background-color: #ffffff; 		color: #000000; 	} </style> <table><tr><td><table bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" class=\"blogbox\"><tr><td> <marquee behavior=\"scroll\" direction=\"up\" scrolldelay=60 scrollamount=\"1\" width=\"140\" height=\"200\" onmouseover=\"this.stop()\" onmouseout=\"this.start()\"> <!-- Magic RSS BlogBox version 1.1.5 from http://www.magic-rss.com --><p align=center><a href=\"http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/ombudsman/\" target=\"magicrss\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"blogrssfeedtitle\">PBS Ombudsman</a></p><p class=\"magicblogrss\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2010/02/the_mailbag_23.html\" target=\"magicrss\" class=\"blogrsstitle\">The Mailbag</a><br /><span class=\"blogrssdate\">Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:40:39 -0500 - </span><span class=\"blogrssdesc\">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...</span></p><p class=\"magicblogrss\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2010/01/scanning_the_source_1.html\" target=\"magicrss\" class=\"blogrsstitle\">Scanning the Source</a><br /><span class=\"blogrssdate\">Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:19:23 -0500 - </span><span class=\"blogrssdesc\">On the PBS NewsHour Wednesday evening, correspondent Ray Suarez presented an informative segment on the latest in efforts to improve the safety of air travel, focusing especially on new body-scan screening machines at airports to guard against terrorist attacks such...</span></p><p class=\"magicblogrss\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2009/12/the_mailbag_22.html\" target=\"magicrss\" class=\"blogrsstitle\">The Mailbag</a><br /><span class=\"blogrssdate\">Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:33:36 -0500 - </span><span class=\"blogrssdesc\">Here\'s the last ombudsman\'s mailbag of 2009, along with my very best wishes for a happy New Year and, let\'s go for it, a happy new decade, for all. Despite the holiday season, the mail has remained steady, with viewers...</span></p><p class=\"magicblogrss\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2009/12/the_mailbag_21.html\" target=\"magicrss\" class=\"blogrsstitle\">The Mailbag</a><br /><span class=\"blogrssdate\">Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:44:59 -0500 - </span><span class=\"blogrssdesc\">The mail this week was focused mainly on comments from viewers about aspects of the new PBS NewsHour that made its debut Dec. 7 and was the subject of last week\'s ombudsman\'s column. A sampling of the letters is posted...</span></p><p class=\"magicblogrss\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2009/12/lehrers_rules.html\" target=\"magicrss\" class=\"blogrsstitle\">Lehrer\'s Rules</a><br /><span class=\"blogrssdate\">Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:27:32 -0500 - </span><span class=\"blogrssdesc\">Last Friday evening, Dec. 4, was the final broadcast of what has been known for many years as The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. The following Monday, Dec. 7, the new-look version of the venerable, one-hour, weekday nights, news broadcast made...</span></p><p class=\"magicblogrss\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2009/12/the_mailbag_20.html\" target=\"magicrss\" class=\"blogrsstitle\">The Mailbag</a><br /><span class=\"blogrssdate\">Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:56:27 -0500 - </span><span class=\"blogrssdesc\">More, and Less, About NOW Viewers irritated over the forthcoming cancellation of the weekly newsmagazine series NOW on PBS continued to vent their objections in a heavy flow of e-mails that dominated the Ombudsman\'s Mailbag for the second week in...</span></p><p class=\"magicblogrss\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2009/11/the_mailbag_18.html\" target=\"magicrss\" class=\"blogrsstitle\">The Mailbag</a><br /><span class=\"blogrssdate\">Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:47:41 -0500 - </span><span class=\"blogrssdesc\">Farewell to Moyers and NOW Last Friday evening, Nov. 20, the New York Times posted a brief news item on its Web site reporting that Bill Moyers would end his public affairs program, \"Bill Moyers Journal,\" on April 30. It...</span></p><p class=\"magicblogrss\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2009/11/whats_not_on_the_air_1.html\" target=\"magicrss\" class=\"blogrsstitle\">What\'s Not on the Air</a><br /><span class=\"blogrssdate\">Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:55:15 -0500 - </span><span class=\"blogrssdesc\">There was a little jewel on PBS last week, an hour-plus documentary called \"The Way We Get By,\" part of the long-running POV, or point of view, series. It was broadcast on Nov. 11, Veterans Day, and was about the...</span></p><p class=\"magicblogrss\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2009/11/sesame_street_responds_1.html\" target=\"magicrss\" class=\"blogrsstitle\">Sesame Street Responds</a><br /><span class=\"blogrssdate\">Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:14:02 -0500 - </span><span class=\"blogrssdesc\">In last week\'s Ombudsman\'s Column, I posted e-mails from some viewers who were upset with an episode of the venerable children\'s program Sesame Street that had aired on Oct. 29 and dealt with one of the program\'s colorful creations, the...</span></p><p class=\"magicblogrss\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2009/11/pox_or_fox_we_report_you_decide.html\" target=\"magicrss\" class=\"blogrsstitle\">Pox or Fox? We Report. You Decide.</a><br /><span class=\"blogrssdate\">Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:30:36 -0500 - </span><span class=\"blogrssdesc\">One of the most interesting aspects of this peculiar job is that you hear from viewers about lots of things that surprise you. I expect to hear regularly about The NewsHour, Frontline, Bill Moyers Journal, NOW, Tavis Smiley or Washington...</span></p><p class=\"magicblogrss\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2009/10/the_mailbag_15.html\" target=\"magicrss\" class=\"blogrsstitle\">The Mailbag</a><br /><span class=\"blogrssdate\">Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:30:39 -0500 - </span><span class=\"blogrssdesc\">This week\'s mailbag produced half-a-dozen or so letters from viewers who were angry at what they saw as PBS promotion of children being vaccinated against the flu virus, and in some cases, the H1N1 strain of that virus. Their ire...</span></p><p class=\"magicblogrss\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2009/10/unearthing_the_hidden_history.html\" target=\"magicrss\" class=\"blogrsstitle\">Unearthing \'the Hidden History\'</a><br /><span class=\"blogrssdate\">Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:47:03 -0500 - </span><span class=\"blogrssdesc\">Most of the e-mails to the ombudsman this week came in reaction to last week\'s column dealing with Frontline\'s Oct. 13 documentary about Afghanistan with the controversial title, \"Obama\'s War,\" and with the controversial use of footage of a fatally...</span></p><p class=\"magicblogrss\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2009/10/a_tough_but_proper_decision.html\" target=\"magicrss\" class=\"blogrsstitle\">A Tough but Proper Decision</a><br /><span class=\"blogrssdate\">Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:32:19 -0500 - </span><span class=\"blogrssdesc\">The long-running PBS documentary series Frontline aired its new season premiere this week, an hour-long look at the now eight-year-old war in Afghanistan that carried the controversial title, \"Obama\'s War.\" I\'ll come back to that title a little further down...</span></p><p class=\"magicblogrss\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2009/10/the_mailbag_17.html\" target=\"magicrss\" class=\"blogrsstitle\">The Mailbag</a><br /><span class=\"blogrssdate\">Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:58:24 -0500 - </span><span class=\"blogrssdesc\">As I was saying, we would wait until the completion of the six-part, 12-hour Ken Burns series on \"The National Parks\" before pulling together a representative sampling of viewer observations sent to the ombudsman\'s inbox. Not surprisingly, this makes for...</span></p><p class=\"magicblogrss\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2009/10/the_mailbag_16.html\" target=\"magicrss\" class=\"blogrsstitle\">The Mailbag</a><br /><span class=\"blogrssdate\">Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:13:59 -0500 - </span><span class=\"blogrssdesc\">Not About \'The Parks\' The sweeping, six-part, 12-hour documentary series by Ken Burns, \"The National Parks: America\'s Best Idea,\" is still running at the time of this posting, so I\'m going to save some of this week\'s mail commenting on...</span></p><P><B><A HREF=\"http://www.magic-rss.com\" TARGET=\"magicrss\">FeedBox by Magic RSS</A></B></P></marquee></td></tr></table><p align=center style=\"margin-top:4px\"><a href=\"http://www.magic-rss.com\" class=\"blogrsstitle\" target=\"magicrss\">FeedBox by Magic RSS</a></p></td></tr> </table> ');document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.magic-rss.com/remote/js_callback.cgi?url=' +location.href +'&z=28406&f=y"></script>');