... and it has all the earmarks of political pressure, per Lisa de Moraes of the Washington Post (always wondered whether she was related to Vinicius de Moraes, the great Brazilian playwright and songwriter who created both Black Orpheus and the lyrics of "The Girl from Ipanema"):
<<At 5 p.m. yesterday, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced that "after implementing the findings of the McKinsey study" (say what?), CPB President Kathleen Cox feels that it's a natural time for her to step aside and let the board conduct a search for her successor.
For the time being, CPB said, Ken Ferree will take over. A senior official for then-Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell, Ferree was named CPB's chief executive officer and executive vice president a mere three weeks ago.>>
<<...Jeff Chester, executive director of advocacy group Center for Digital Democracy, told The TV Column, "It's not a coincidence they bring in Ken Ferree and Cox's head rolls."
He added, "The fact is she was basically an apolitical bureaucrat in an incredibly polarized agency.">>
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If this happened in Russia, the talking heads would be tut-tutting about threats to democracy. But not in the good ol' U.S.A. Oh no.