Some more
good news for our side:
Under fire for promoting conservative programming, the former Corporation for Public Broadcasting chairman has resigned from the corporation's board after the panel reviewed an investigative report on his tenure.
Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, whose term as board chairman ended in September, left the board after the third day of closed-door meetings by the board of directors to review the findings of the agency's inspector general about his work.
This hack was among the worst infiltrators of the formerly respectable media, who had driven Bill Moyers, among others, away from PBS. As with Fox and the rest of that drivel, Tomlinson tried to equate "balance" with "shoving right-wing dogma down people's throats". And it wasn't just a case of bringing in more conservative voices. He was obsessed with rooting out the subliminal liberal messages in popular PBS programming:
Obey and Dingell asked the inspector general to investigate a consulting contract that, according to The New York Times, was initiated by Tomlinson to review the "Now With Bill Moyers" public television show for political content. They also asked for an inquiry into CPB's decision to hire two ombudsmen to review public programming.
The Times reported that the consultant kept track of "anti-Bush," "anti-business" and "anti-Tom DeLay" guests on Moyers' show. Moyers, who served in the Johnson administration, has left the show.
Am I being too optimistic to suggest that a new day is dawning? A sunny day, chasing the clouds away...?