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I concur. I will actually go a step further and state that I think PBS has better and more informative programs than any other broadcast network.

"concur. I will actually go a step further and state that I think PBS has better and more informative programs than any other broadcast network"

Name for me three positve, informative programs aired by PBS that highlite all the GOOD things happening in Iraq and or Afganistan or that highlite the roots and backgrounds of Islamic Terrorism.

Name for me three shows provided by PBS that provide a right of center viewpoint on ANY social or political topic?

I don't generally watch NewsHour. I do agree with Jedidah that Hume is the best. It's made for political junkies, is absent of fluff pieces and fairly presents each side (which is easier to do in politics than in culture). I would say that the grapevine segment is the one area of the program that is decidedly conservative, so I certainly like it, but some may not.

If you look to PBS, there are a number of complaints that are legitimate. First, that the reporters, like in most non-Fox outlets are uniformly liberal. In the case of Lehrer, Gwen Ifill -- though professional -- has not been shy in letting us know she has an agenda. Second, the choice of experts is sometimes disturbing. An activist can become an expert in their minds. For example,

The Ford Motor Co. announced Monday it will make sweeping job cuts and plant closings. Gwen Ifill provides a report. Then, Ifill discusses the potential impact of the layoffs, as well as Ford's new business plan, with John McElroy, host of the television program "Autoline Detroit" and Harley Shaiken, a professor at the University of California-Berkely who specializes in labor issues.

I'm going to take a stab that ol' Berkely prof. Harley isn't dispassionate about which side he's on during a labor dispute.

Third, though they usually don't pick and choose stories, instead sticking with the top 4 events, they way they cover them reveals some bias. Here was how they addressed the Canadian elections:

"A Shift to the Right": Gwen Ifill reports on the election day victory of Canada's Conservative Party, bringing to an end 13 years of the Liberal Party as the majority in the government. Then, Ifill discusses the change of power with Jim Travers, the national affairs columnist for the Toronto Star.

and the next day they addressed Chile

Chile's President-elect Elizabeth Farnsworth sits down with Michelle Bachelet, president-elect of Chile, in Santiago to discuss her experience during the 1973 coup led by Augusto Pinochet and her goals as the country's first female president.

For the conservative Harper, they have Gwen Ifill interviewing another reporter (a columnist from a very liberal paper, no less -- an outspokenly activist paper that endorsed the Liberal party in 2006) of the impact of the election. For the socialist Bachelet, she gets to tell her own side, no doubt from a sympathetic Farnsworth and the topic was her groundbreaking accomplishments of being deficient of Y chromosomes and how mean and nasty Pinochet was 33 years ago.

I got this all from here.