The Times conveniently omitted that Tomlinson was "appointed to the CPB board by President Bill Clinton and to the top job by President Bush. Tomlinson has made ideological balance on PBS and National Public Radio a central theme of his tenure at a time when broadcasters in the field are primarily occupied with possible large cuts in federal funding. The House Appropriations Committee on Thursday approved a 25 percent cut [oh oh!] in the CPB's budget for next year," reported the Washington Post.
This is the [State Dept.] photo the Washington Post chose to use of Former GOP co-chairman Patricia de Stacy Harrison, candidate to the CPB's new chief executive position.
Patricia de Stacy Harrison was the Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs. Harrison instituted "Partnerships for Learning" a long-term effort to engage the successor generation in a dialogue for greater understanding through academic and professional exchange programs, which includes a $10 million youth initiative focused on the Muslim world. Assistant Secretary Harrison oversees the resumption of the Fulbright Program in Afghanistan and Iraq, and she launched an ongoing series of exchanges with both countries. As an entrepreneur, author and political leader, she has over 20 years' experience in communication strategy and coalition and constituency building. As founder and president of the National Women's Economic Alliance, she worked to identify women and minorities for leadership roles in business and politics. Assistant Secretary Harrison is the author of the books A Seat At The Table and America's New Women Entrepreneurs. These are her credentials carefully or should I say often selectively omitted in the mainstream media.
Feb. 4, 2004: Below, Assistant Secretary Harrison (left) presents a donated Dell laptop computer to Iraqi Fulbright student Lazha Talat, who is among the first Fulbright students from Iraq to the United States in more than 14 years. State Dept. photo.
Chair Tomlinson Personally Ordered Monitoring of Moyer’s ‘NOW’
The New York Times is reporting that investigators at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting are examining more than $14,000 in payments made under contract to a man who compiled reports on the political views and backgrounds of guests appearing on the PBS program NOW with Bill Moyers. The paper says that the corporation's Republican chairman, Kenneth Tomlinson, took the unusual step of signing the contracts personally. The inspector general is looking at the contracts signed by Tomlinson with a man named Fred Mann to monitor the political leanings of "Now." Mann was listed in the contracts as living in Indianapolis and officials at the corporation said they knew nothing about him. The inquiry was requested by two Democrats, Representatives John Dingell of Michigan and David Obey of Wisconsin, after they learned about the monitoring. The Inspector General is also investigating $15,000 in payments to two Republican lobbyists last year that were not disclosed to the corporation's board. The Times says that one of the lobbyists was retained at the direction of Tomlinson and the other at the suggestion of his Republican predecessor, who remains on the board.