Interesting comment

Kenneth Tomlinson, who after becoming the chair of the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting spent public money to have outside researchers check public programming for "liberal bias," has resigned, it was announced last Friday. The resignation came before CPB Inspector General Kenneth Konz, who has been looking into Tomlinson's reign, could release his report.

Jeff Chester of the Center for Digital Democracy noted cogently that this is unlikely to stop the continuing attempts to turn public broadcasting into another mouthpiece of the right (in fact, I suspect the whole resignation is an exercise in misdirection). Despite that, it's still a victory and still does mean, as was discovered earlier in the drive to relax media concentration rules, even for the Shrubberies^* there are limits beyond which they can't go.

Oh, what was the "interesting comment?" It was this:

The CPB said both the board and Tomlinson believed it was in the best interest of the CPB that he step down.

"The board does not believe that Mr. Tomlinson acted maliciously or with any intent to harm CPB or public broadcasting, and the board recognizes the Mr. Tomlinson strongly disputes the findings in the soon-to-be-released inspector general's report," the board said in a statement.

Which I'd say gives us a pretty good hint as to what Konz's report is going to say.

^*Shrubberies: Acolytes of Shrub