Tomlinson Violated Federal Law

[Nbadan]

NYT: Report Says Ex-Chief of Public TV Violated Federal Law
By STEPHEN LABATON
Published: November 15, 2005

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 - Investigators at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting concluded today that its former chairman repeatedly broke federal law and its own regulations in a campaign to combat what he saw as liberal bias.

A scathing report by the corporation's inspector general described a dysfunctional organization that violated the Public Broadcasting Act, which created the corporation and was written to insulate programming decisions from politics....

***

The corporation's former chairman, Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, who was ousted from the board two weeks ago when it was presented in a closed session with the details of the report, has said he sought to enforce a provision of the Public Broadcasting Act meant to ensure objectivity and balance in programming.

But the report said that in the process, Mr. Tomlinson repeatedly crossed statutory boundaries that set up the corporation as a "heat shield" to protect public radio and television from political interference.

The report said he violated federal law by being heavily involved in getting more than $4 million for a program featuring the conservative editorial writers of the Wall Street Journal. It said he imposed a "political test" to recruit a new president. And it said his decision to hire Republican consultants to defeat legislation violated contracting rules....

NY Times

Wasn't just ummmm......yesterday, that the (Conservative) Express-News wrote an editorial defending Tomlinson's tenure for bringing balance to PBS?

[gtownspur]

^he went about it in the wrong ways. What's funny is that Dan Rather when he was anchor always spoke in DNC fundraisers. But whose to say NbaDan would overlook that.

[boutons]

already posted:

http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29165