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PBS Is In Jeopardy
Posted on May 03, 2005
Yesterday's New York Times published an article describing secret efforts by Republican operatives to make our Public Broadcasting System more "fair and balanced."
Kenneth Tomlinson, the Republican chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) — the government-funded organization that was designed to shield PBS from political pressure — is aggressively pressing PBS to correct what he considers "liberal bias."
He secretly hired a White House staffer to help draft "guiding principles" for the future of CPB. He brought in a consultant to monitor the "anti-Bush" and "anti-Tom Delay" content on Bill Moyers'
NOW program, and then set up and funded right-wing commentator Paul Gigot's new PBS program. Now Tomlinson is working behind the scenes to stack CPB's board and executive offices with Republican Party cronies.
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Read the New York Times article, Republican Chairman Exerts Pressure on PBS, Alleging Biases