] Kenneth Tomlinson, the Republican chairman of the
] Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) -- the
] government-funded organization that was designed to
] shield PBS from political pressure -- is aggressively
] pressing PBS to correct what he considers "liberal bias."
]
] This top-down partisan meddling goes against the very
] nature of PBS and the local stations we trust. Let the
] people speak and decide the future of PBS, not secret
] dealings by White House operatives.
]
] Sign this petition to demand that Congress, the CPB and
] PBS station managers remove Tomlinson and support town
] meetings in your community on the future of PBS.

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http://mediacitizen.blogspot.com/2005/05/tomlinsons-tone-deafness.html

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Free Press : Save PBS from partisan operatives

] Stephen Colbert, who plays a phony correspondent on the
] fake-news program "The Daily Show," is getting a real
] promotion.
]
] Comedy Central said yesterday that it was giving Mr.
] Colbert his own show: a half-hour that is expected to
] follow "The Daily Show" on weeknights and will lampoon
] those cable-news shows that are dominated by the
] personality and sensibility of a single host. Think, he
] said, of Bill O'Reilly and Chris Matthews and Sean
] Hannity.
]
] Where "The Daily Show" and its host, Jon Stewart,
] generally spoof the headlines of the day (and the anchors
] and reporters who deliver them), Mr. Colbert's program
] will send up those hosts who have become household names
] doing interviews and offering analyses each night on the
] 24-hour cable news channels. The program, which is
] expected to begin appearing on Comedy Central as soon as
] early fall, is being produced by Mr. Stewart's production
] company, Busboy Productions.

Yeah so think "the talking heads" version of the daily show...

'Daily Show' Personality Gets His Own Platform - New York Times