CPB needs uniter, not divider.(Corporation for Public Broadcasting)

Broadcasting & Cable, June, 2005

If nothing else seemed clear amid last week's avalanche of public-broadcasting activity on Capitol Hill, this did: Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, the chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, has become a polarizing force at a time when CPB needs a uniter, not a divider. Tomlinson and the Republican Party loyalist he installed as president are the wrong team to head an organization that was meant to be "carefully guarded from government or from party control," according to President Lyndon B.

Johnson, who helped create it. That said, we believe there is validity in Tomlinson's argument that public TV and radio should speak more to the vast public between the coasts. There are also members of public broadcastings' own camp who privately wondered...

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