WP:Corporation for Public Broadcasting Inspector General to Probe Chairman

[DeepModem Mom]

CPB's Inspector General to Pursue Probe of Chairman
By Lisa de Moraes
Friday, May 13, 2005; Page C07


The inspector general of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has agreed to investigate some of the activities of CPB Chairman Ken Tomlinson, including the hiring of an outside consultant to monitor the political leanings of guests on the PBS public affairs program "Now."

CPB told The TV Column that Inspector General Kenneth Konz was not talking to reporters yesterday about the request for an investigation, which he received late Wednesday in the form of a letter from Reps. David Obey (D-Wis.) and John Dingell (D-Mich.).

In that letter, the two Democrats said that several recent actions by Tomlinson, a Republican, may have become "a source of political interference into public broadcasting" rather than "a shield" against such interference, as Congress intended in the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967.

Konz did tell the Associated Press, "We are committed to performing a review and looking at the record and giving them the information they asked for."

In their letter, Dingell and Obey said that "recent news reports suggesting that the CPB increasingly is making personnel and funding decisions on the basis of political ideology are extremely troubling."...


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/12/AR2005051201754.html

[Roland99]

1. Good!

Keep those fucking :puke:s out of PBS!!

[Melodybe]

2. Exactly! Fuck that dude!

[earthboundmisfit]

3. NOW has always been a problem for this administration

The inspector general of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has agreed to investigate some of the activities of CPB Chairman Ken Tomlinson, including the hiring of an outside consultant to monitor the political leanings of guests on the PBS public affairs program "Now."

I thought it was outrageous enough to hire this so-called "ombudsman", but to mainly target ONE SHOW?!? I'd love to hear some commentary on this from Bill Moyers, since he retired from the show - you know he's got lots to say about all this & what he went through leading up to it.

In that letter, the two Democrats said that several recent actions by Tomlinson, a Republican, may have become "a source of political interference into public broadcasting" rather than "a shield" against such interference, as Congress intended in the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967.

Because in * topsy-turvy world, a "shield" actually means a "SWORD".

This gets worse & worse (just like every other nasty dealing of Bushco). Sure hope that Obey & Dingell keep pressing Konz for a FULL investigation.