As the House votes to restore $100 million in budget cuts for public television and radio, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting appoints a new president, who described her previous assignment as "helping Arab and Muslim journalists produce balanced reports" and "'good news' stories" on Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Washington Post describes her as "a former public relations executive who has no public broadcasting experience, was a co-chairman of the RNC from 1997 to 2001, and helped raise funds to elect party candidates, including President Bush," but Kenneth Tomlinson tells the paper that "leaders of public broadcasting check their partisanship at the door."
"It has all started to feel like a Gilbert and Sullivan show," writes the National Journal's William Powers, "with Tomlinson as Lord High Executioner ("Defer, Defer, to the Lord High Executioner!") and the other cast members scurrying around him in fear and outrage."
Friday, June 24, 2005
Why scuttle public broadcasting when you can co-opt it?
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