PressEthic

I am surprised that this problem has not been covered more widely by the mainstream press, and that it is left to organisations like Free Press to celebrate that the Chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Kenneth Tomlinson, (who also ran the BBG as chairman, mentioned in my previous blog has now been forced out, and what a good thing that supposedly is too.

A New York Times op-ed from June of this year, among others, criticised Tomlinson for filling the CPB with G.O.P. members, and other Republican Party affiliates. It also reports that NPR and PBS were having their funding cut, though this was not the case with the, "democracy-spreading," BBG.

It also seems from two articles in the New York Times, from yesterday and today, that Tomlinson has been forced to step down.

The Times has reported on this contentious issue repeatedly over the last few months, and it seems that Democrats in Congress had put Bush and in turn Tomlinson under pressure to resign. But the man was also advocating huge budget cuts in public broadcasting, so how can he simultaneously have been pursuing a partisan agenda I am left asking?