Face of neocon evil doer and new media control: Patricia de Stacy Harrison

[MelissaB]

Front-Runner for Public Broadcast Agency Job Is Former GOP Chair

By Paul Farhi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, June 9, 2005; Page C01

A former co-chairman of the Republican National Committee is the leading candidate to take over the agency that funds public broadcasting, sparking new concerns among broadcasters about conservative influence over National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting Service programming.

Patricia de Stacy Harrison, a high-ranking official at the State Department, is one of two candidates for the top job at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and is the favored candidate of the CPB's chairman, Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, according to people close to the search. The CPB is a congressionally chartered agency that directs taxpayer funds to PBS, NPR and hundreds of radio and TV stations.



Patricia de Stacy Harrison has been a top-ranking official
at the State Department since October 2001. (Alex Wong - Getty Images)


Harrison's candidacy comes at a time when Tomlinson has stirred controversy by attacking PBS as having a liberal bias in its programs. Tomlinson, a longtime Republican, has advocated more balance on PBS's schedule and has supported using CPB funds to produce news-discussion programs that take a conservative point of view. Critics, including veteran PBS newsman and commentator Bill Moyers, have said Tomlinson is trying to use CPB's power to inject Republican ideology into PBS and National Public Radio programs.

Although the agency has hired a search firm to find other candidates for the job, the only other known candidate is Ken Ferree, who has been CPB's interim chief executive since April. Several high-ranking officials within public broadcasting said they expect the agency's eight-member board -- which is dominated by Republicans -- to decide on a new chief executive at the board's next meeting, scheduled for June 20-21.

More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/08/AR2005060802528.html

[Doctor_J]

1. It's already a done deal, the way I hear it

Let's face it, there soon won't be any place to turn where theGOP propaganda isn't flowing. This should surprise no one.

Edit: We are desperately in need of a tax revolt on this, Bush's never-ending campign stops for SS decimation, the war, and all other GOP pork projects.

[Spectral]

2. Ohmigod, this is horrible

Is there satellite radio from Canada?