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Crusaders at the CPB

Sherman, Scott | August 15, 2005 issue

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Comments on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which provides financing for public television and radio stations. The role of Kenneth Tomlinson at CPB; Background on a 1995 Republican campaign that threatened to reduce or eliminate funds for the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio; How Tomlinson is believed to be part of the crusade against public broadcasting; Effort of PBS executives to make CPB more conservative; Concern about the editorial independence of PBS; The vulnerability of the public broadcasting system to Congressional largess when it comes to funding.

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CORPORATION for Public Broadcasting; PUBLIC broadcasting -- Finance; TOMLINSON, Kenneth; CONSERVATISM -- Social aspects; REPUBLICAN Party (U.S. : 1854- ); UNITED States

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