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What disturbed me most about the recent revelation about the investigation of the guests on Bill Moyers's television show "Now" arranged by Kenneth Tomlinson Kenneth Y. Tomlinson (born August 3, 1944) is an American government official. He is the former chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which manages Voice of America radio. , the chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is a private non-profit corporation which is chartered and funded by the United States Federal Government to promote public broadcasting.

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 Times, it was focused on the "political leanings" of the guests. It would be legitimate to investigate whether the facts provided by the guests were true, or whether the segment in which they appeared was fair and accurate. But examining the guests' political beliefs sounds like an assignment Joe McCarthy would have given Roy Cohn.

To get an idea of the quality of intellect behind the report to Tomlinson, consider that it called Sen. Chuck Hagel, the Nebraska Republican, a "liberal" because he had some doubts about Bush's Iraq policy. It also classified a segment on Pentagon waste as "anti-defense."
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Title Annotation:Corporation for Public Broadcasting investigations
Author:Peters, Charles
Publication:Washington Monthly
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jul 1, 2005
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