Within next couple of hours or so we are going to deliver 150,000 petition signatures to the Washington headquarters of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting ("CPB"), calling on CPB Chairman Kenneth Tomlinson to
stop politicizing public broadcasting.
Meanwhile,
Washington Post's White House Reporter Dan Froomkin (quoting a New York Times report from this morning) picked up on the politicization of PBS, noting in his column this afternoon - the White House angle in the ongoing controversy:
Stephen Labaton writes in the New York Times: "E-mail messages obtained by investigators at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting show that its chairman, Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, extensively consulted a White House official shortly before she joined the corporation about creating an ombudsman's office to monitor the balance and objectivity of public television and radio programs.
"Mr. Tomlinson said in an interview three months ago that he did not think he had instructed a subordinate to send material on the ombudsman project to Mary C. Andrews at her White House office in her final days as director of global communications, a political appointment."
But the e-mails "show that Ms. Andrews worked on a variety of ombudsman issues before joining the corporation, while still on the White House payroll. And they show that the White House instructed the corporation on Ms. Andrews's job title in her new post."
We are delivering the 150,000 petitions teaming up with Free Press and the Center for Digital Democracy. We will try to post pictures of that petition delivery later today or tomorrow morning.
UPDATE (6/20 - 4:33 pm EST): We just deilvered those 150,000 petitions. Here is Chellie and Tim Karr from Free Press delivering those petitions at the CPB headquarters:
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