So, here's some news on the RW nutty buddy who gave the editorial staff of the WALL STREET JOURNAL a half hour of public broadcasting time to counter a non-existent 'librul' bias. So, here's the breakdown: Imagine there's a bias and then create a bias to balance it out. Or: imagine you're being lied to and lie to counteract the lie. This, my friends, is right wing thinking to the max...

Report Says Ex-Chief of Public TV Violated Federal Law
By STEPHEN LABATON
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.
The 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 received $400 million this year from Congress to finance an array of programs on public television and radio, although its future financing has come under heavy criticism, particularly from conservative lawmakers. Its board is selected by the president and confirmed by the Senate.
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.
For instance, the report said that Mr. Tomlinson violated federal law by being heavily involved in getting more than $4 million in money for a program featuring the conservative editorial writers of The Wall Street Journal...http://tinyurl.com/8gmgr
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