Broadcast ex-chief sent ‘bragging’ e-mail to Rove

[SOURCE: Reuters 11/17, AUTHOR: Deborah Zabarenko]
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s former chairman e-mailed White House strategist Karl Rove, “bragging” about a push for conservative programming on U.S. public television, the CPB’s inspector general said on Thursday. Kenneth Tomlinson told Rove of his work to balance the liberal PBS program “Now with Bill Moyers,” with a conservative show, “The Journal Editorial Report,” Inspector General Kenneth Konz said in a telephone interview. “There’s a few of them to and from Karl Rove,” Konz said of the e-mail traffic. “They primarily relate to (ex-)Chairman Tomlinson advising Mr. Rove and his staff regarding his success in getting a program to be put on the air to balance the Bill Moyers program. … He was bragging on how successful he was being. “In addition, I saw some general comments relating to how (Tomlinson) was shaking things up here at CPB,” Konz said, adding Rove responded with “sort of general congratulations … very short, very cryptic.” The e-mails show no evidence Tomlinson acted with White House guidance to push for right-leaning programming, Konz said, but they do show Tomlinson failed to keep the CPB board and management informed about what he was doing. “It went against what the law said he had the authority to do,” Konz said.
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