In media news–the New York Times is reporting that the Republican chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — Kenneth Tomlinson — is aggressively pressing public television to correct what he and other conservatives consider liberal bias. The CPB is a private, nonprofit entity financed by Congress to ensure the vitality of public television and radio. A number of former Bush administration employees now have top positions at the CPB. In March. Tomlinson hired the director of the White House Office of Global Communications as a senior staff member. And Ken Ferree, a former top aide to Michael Powell at the Federal Communications Commission, is now the acting president of the CPB. In addition, the Times reports that Tomlinson hired an outside consultant last year to keep track of the political leanings of guests on the program Now With Bill Moyers. The consultant was asked to place the program’s guests in categories like “anti-Bush,” “anti-business” and “anti-Tom DeLay,” In December 2003, three months after he was elected chair Tomlinson sent the head of PBS–Pat Mitchell — a letter charging that Moyers’ show “does not contain anything approaching the balance the law requires for public broadcasting.” At the same time, Tomlinson was encouraging public broadcasters to begin broadcasting a weekly show hosted by the editor of the conservative editorial page of the Wall Street Journal. Tomlinson has rejected charges that he is trying to impose a political point of view on programming.