I think a lot of the criticism three and four years ago was due to the fact that the people doing the most "wrong" happened to have been Republicans at the time. I'm a fiscal conservative and a social liberal (so basically I'm both a Republican and a Democrat, or neither), and from my perspective PBS is pretty even-handed, typically. They do tend to highlight injustice and inequity, which seems to make them anti-Republican, because Republican perspectives often lead to situations that foster sensationalistic accusations of lack of compassion; PBS is not immune from covering that which will attract viewers more. Is this bias? Well there are some members of this forum who have chosen to label standard, respectable Republican (typically, fiscal) perspectives as categorically incompassionate, but I bet those posters would vociferously deny a political bias to their comments in that regard. So a lot of this depends on where you stand.
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