New Pub-casting Chief Completes Right-Wing Coup

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Published on Monday, October 31, 2005 by CommonDreams.org

New Pub-casting Chief Completes Right-Wing Coup

by Timothy Karr

 
The new president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has stacked the agency's offices with White House propagandists and GOP loyalists in a bold-faced effort to carry forward Kenneth Tomlinson's right-wing crusade against public broadcasting.
CPB President Patricia de Stacy Harrison -- a former chairwoman of the Republican National Committee who was tapped by the CPB board in June -- has hired senior officers from the State Department's "Public Affairs and Public Diplomacy" division, which oversees government efforts to "advance U.S. interests and security and to provide the moral basis for U.S. leadership in the world."

"Public diplomacy" is gov-speak for propaganda. The CPB was created to shield public broadcasting from political interference, not to be a megaphone for the White House. Harrison's latest hires prove that the Republican loyalists at the CPB haven't been deterred from their quest to turn America's treasured public broadcasting system into partisan echo chamber.

Three new CPB hires all previously served with Harrison at the State Department, where she served as assistant secretary for educational and cultural affairs and acting undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs. They followed close behind her when she joined the CPB:
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[Overseas]

1. KICK. eom.

[daleo]

2. There is still some good stuff

But I watch PBS a lot less than I used to.

[MasonJar]

3. NPR had a segment on this action today and it was not flattering.

So one more media bites the dust. That just gives me a better reason to listen to the classical station.

[DiverDave]

4. The airwaves are OURS, GODDAMN IT!

this crap is too much...time to call my represintitives...AGAIN.

[nosmokes]

5. not any more m'friend. they've been coopted by ADM &

wal-mart and other corporate entities looking to burnish their image among the well meaning (and well monied) but still basically uninformed audience that is attracted to public b'casting.

[AndyTiedye]

6. Who Owns the News?