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Re: Kenneth Tomlinson and public TV/radio

Actually the link "[Tomlinson's] relationship with Karl Rove" goes to a New York Times site, containing the article making that point. It was written by Stephen Labaton, Lorne Manly, and Elizabeth Jensen. The title was "Chairman Exerts Pressure on PBS, Alleging Biases." It ran on A1, and had the following excerpt:

Mr. Tomlinson occassionally worked with other White House officials on public broadcasting issues. Last year he enlisted the presidential adviser Karl Rove to help kill a legislative proposal that would change the composition of the Corporation of Public Broadcasting's board by requiring the President to fill about half the seats with people who had experience in local radio and television. The proposal was dropped after Mr. Rove and the White House criticized it

The piece ran on Monday, May 2, 2005.

by Murshed Zaheed on Tue May 17, 2005 at 02:39:23 PM EST
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Re: Tomlinson - P.N.A.C. link

I started googling the P.N.A.C. members listed here and came up with the site below about the BBG

Peter Rodman is one of the P.N.A.C. members...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article53 01.htm
"So what is the Project for a New American Century? Basically it's a right-wing think tank. What makes it different is its membership. On June 3, 1997, PNAC laid out its agenda. Twenty five people signed that document: Elliott Abrams, Bill Bennett, Gary Bauer, Jeb Bush, Dick Cheney, Eliot A. Cohen, Midge Decter, Paula Dobriansky, Steve Forbes, Aaron Friedberg, Francis *censored*uyama, Frank Gaffney, Fred C. Ikle, Donald Kagan, Zalmay Khalizad, I. Lewis Libby, Norman Podhoretz, Dan Quayle, Peter W. Rodman, Stephen P. Rosen, Henry S. Rowen, Donald Rumsfeld, Vin Weber, George Weigel and Paul Wolfowitz. "

http://www.sw-asia.com/People/Bio952.htm

BBG - Broadcasting Board of Governors:
"Veronique Rodman Appointed to the Broadcasting Board of Governors
Washington, DC., December 31, 2003--

Veronique Rodman, a public relations specialist and former television producer, has been appointed to the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the bipartisan, nine-member board which supervises all U.S. nonmilitary international broadcasting.

President Bush nominated Rodman to the BBG on October 24, 2003, and gave her a recess appointment on Dec. 26, 2003.

"Veronique Rodman brings to the BBG an understanding of international affairs and broadcasting,"
said Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, the BBG's chairman.

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. Eugene V. Debs

by lazydog on Sat Jun 25, 2005 at 02:58:55 PM EST
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