Posted on 09/22/2005 7:36:51 PM PDT by Crackingham
As the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting prepared to announce his successor as chairman, Kenneth Y. Tomlinson defended his tenure on Thursday, saying he had no regrets in trying "aggressively" to balance what he said was overly liberal programming in public television and radio. Board members, who plan to meet Monday in Washington, said this week that the leading candidate to become the corporation's next chairwoman was Cheryl F. Halpern, a Republican fund-raiser and former chairwoman of the Republican Jewish Coalition.
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Mr. Tomlinson has come under heavy criticism from Senate Democrats, who say he has injected politics into programming. He is the subject of an inspector general's examination into several issues, including the propriety of a contract he signed with a researcher to monitor the political content of "Now" with Bill Moyers, and other contracts Mr. Tomlinson signed with Republican lobbyists.
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Appearing before the Media Institute, a research group supported by major news media companies and devoted to free-press issues, Mr. Tomlinson said Thursday that there was nothing substantive he would have done differently as head of the corporation.
"If I threatened the cozy atmosphere of public broadcasting over the failure to balance the liberal advocacy journalism of Bill Moyers, so be it," he said before a luncheon sponsored by the institute. "This thing of balance is not rocket science, and that is why I had so little tolerance for public broadcasting's inability to achieve balance. Let the record show that I gave as good as I got."
"I am highly skeptical of so-called nonpartisanship in public broadcasting because that appears to mean the same old liberals making the same old decisions," he added.
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Every Dime is a waste.
His Acts ... as a war criminal seemingly.
I resent these bastards using my hard earned money on this kind of crap.
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