Regime change at PBS (Oregonian)

[struggle4progress]

Once again, public broadcasting is under attack from the right, waging a new kind of political meddling
Monday, June 27, 2005

<snip> First, Bush installed conservative PBS-basher Kenneth Tomlinson as the congressionally chartered corporation's chairman. The agency was created as a firewall to protect public broadcasting from political interference, but Tomlinson has spent his 21 months in the position meddling, bullying and playing corrosive politics from the inside. <snip>

Tomlinson's agenda came into even sharper focus Thursday. He led the way in appointing Patricia de Stacy Harrison, a GOP apparatchik, to take over as CPB chief executive.

Her broadcasting background? None. <snip>

Elitist? That's not true. Nationwide, "Morning Edition" is the most popular radio news program in the United States. <snip>

http://www.oregonlive.com/editorials/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/editorial/111969389822800.xml&coll=7

[youspeakmylanguage]

1. We'll have to see how much damage NPR can take...

...for the next three years.

If my local station (WFAE) starts sounding like Fox News I'm yanking my financial support.