Tomlinson Out but CPB still haunted by his legacy

In a move that I have wanted for quite some time, Kenneth Tomlinson resigned today from the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a public corporation that funds public television and radio. He was forced out largely due to his secret hiring of a private consultant to investigate the 'liberal bias' of Bill Moyers' and Diane Rehm's shows. This move is on the border between unethical and illegal behavior and represents the conservative's paranoia about non-existent 'liberal bias' in the media as a whole and particularly in public broadcasting. It is a step in the right direction for Tomlinson to resign, but problems still remain and his legacy of conservative paranoia is continued by Cheryl Halpern, a Republican contributor and activist. It would be nice to see the CPB headed by people without the conservative paranoia and hatred towards the concept of public broadcasting, but as many other agencies in the government have learned, Bush maneuvers the conservative agenda in non-partisan agencies by appointing political hacks to top jobs, who then are able to lean on career civil servants to either conform or leave. A sad commentary on the current state of American government