CPB's Tomlinson may have pushed too much!

The Smirking Chimp has reprinted a Philedelphia Inquirer article regarding the blatant politicization of National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting Service. Evidently, some of the senior staff of both organizations are getting fed up with the attempts by Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, to eliminate any legitimate balance to their programming by stocking the companies, with right wing ideologues like Carl Tuckerson and Paul Gigot, editor of the Wall Street Journal's Editorial page, and by harassing and "monitoring" one of the flagships of PBS: NOW with Bill Moyers. Bill Moyers ended up resigning in disgust, though it still retains a fairly objective perspective under directorship of DavidBrancaccio, even though it doesn't have the brilliance of Moyers anymore.

"Now Tomlinson's makeover attempts have made their own news: Angry chiefs at PBS and NPR; an investigation of whether his actions amounted to illegal political interference; and questions about whether he may have overreached."

For a number of reasons, and this is just one example, I think we are looking at the beginning of a shift in the media, and it may be that they are starting to grow a spine. Either that or they have just fed up with the right wing agenda stomping on real news.

Let's hope that it's not too late.