The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #86266   Message #1603185
Posted By: dianavan
12-Nov-05 - 03:49 PM
Thread Name: BS: Tomlinson and Rove?
Subject: BS: Tomlinson and Rove?
From the Washington Post:

"The CPB's inspector general has been investigating Tomlinson's practice of using agency money to hire consultants and lobbyists without notifying the agency's board. Tomlinson last year hired a little-known Indiana consultant to study the political leanings of guests on such programs as "Now With Bill Moyers" and "The Diane Rehm Show" on National Public Radio. He also hired lobbyists to defeat legislation that would have changed how CPB's board is structured.

The inspector, Kenneth Konz, also had been looking into whether Tomlinson violated agency procedures in his recruiting of former Republican National Committee co-chairman Patricia de Stacy Harrison to be CPB's chief executive, and into possible White House influence in the hiring of two in-house ombudsmen to critique news programs on NPR and PBS."

Can someone please explain to me why Rove is also implicated in this sorry state of affairs?

Its obvious to me that controlling the media has been the way that Bush Administration has duped the American public but where is the hand of Rove in all of this?