From American Progress:
ETHICS -- EMBATTLED PUBLIC BROADCASTING CHAIR RESIGNS: Former Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) head Kenneth Tomlinson resigned from the board after the agency's inspector general issued a report critical of his leadership.
While chairman of the board, Tomlinson worked to push a partisan agenda in public media, hiring outside consultants "to study the political leanings of guests on such programs as 'Now With Bill Moyers' and 'The Diane Rehm Show' on National Public Radio."
The inspector general had also been investigating "whether Tomlinson violated agency procedures in his recruiting of former Republican National Committee co-chairman Patricia de Stacy Harrison to be CPB's chief executive, and into possible White House influence in the hiring of two in-house ombudsmen to critique news programs on NPR and PBS."
But Tomlinson's resignation doesn't end the strong right-wing influence at CPB; the new chairperson and vice-chairperson, Cheryl F. Halpern and Gay Hart Gaines, are longtime conservative fundraisers.
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