MEDIA CULTURE
Tomlinson's Troubles [Stephen Spruiell]
This seems like petty bureaucratic infighting to me. It's widely known (but not reported) that Broadcasting Board of Governors chairman Kenneth Y. Tomlinson has been trying to shake things up at Voice of America and that some of his moves — including urging VOA to report more positive stories from Iraq and Afghanistan — have been less-than-popular with the BBG's old guard. A handful of Dems in Congress — working in tandem with the Washington Post and the New York Times — pressured Tomlinson into resigning from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting last year after they learned that he was trying to do something about liberal bias at PBS. It looks like they're well on their way to getting him kicked off the BBG as well.
Meanwhile, Cato's David Boaz locates the real scandal.
08/30 04:38 PM
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