Another bush lackey going down: CPB's Tomlinson pushed PBS to

[rasputin1952]

get rid of"Liberal Bias".

NYT's:

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 - Investigators at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting said on Tuesday that they had uncovered evidence that its former chairman had repeatedly broken federal law and the organization's own regulations in a campaign to combat what he saw as liberal bias.

A report by the corporation's inspector general, sent to Congress on Tuesday, described a dysfunctional organization that appeared to have violated the Public Broadcasting Act, which created the corporation and was written to insulate programming decisions from politics.

The former chairman, Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, who was ousted from the board two weeks ago when it was presented with the details of the report in a closed session, has said he sought to enforce a provision of the broadcasting act meant to ensure objectivity and balance in programming

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/16/politics/16broadcast.html?th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print

[Missy M]

1. He was so blatant I stopped listening. Are people finally starting...

to wake up to what has been going on in broadcasting.

[SpiralHawk]

2. Is Tomlinson a lackey or a crony?

It is so hard to be sure with the vast BushCo-Republican culture of corruption.

[rasputin1952]

3. Crony/lackey...doesn't make much difference w/this crowd...

They are ALL horrendous.

Worst administration EVER!