Some good news and bad news on the public broadcasting front: The Associated Press is reporting that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting board has picked Patricia S. Harrison to become the next CPB chief executive.

The good news is that Harrison, a former Republican Party co-chairman, will assist CPB Chairman Kenneth Y. Tomlinson

The Associated Press chose that headline for this story about the latest 1st Avenue farce. And how did the U.N.

Tim Graham e-mailed me to note that on the NPR panel I wrote about yesterday, NPR pitted libertarian Nick Gillespie against three panelists in favor of maintaining or increasing funding for public broadcasting:

You would think they would understand that you don’t fight charges of favoring liberals by favoring liberals in your choice of guests, but this is their mentality: we deserve three times as much air time, because we’re right and we must win.

Ed Morissey at Captain

The Washington Post

Reuters reports that the White House is standing by Corporation for Public Broadcasting Chairman Kenneth Tomlinson after a handful of Democratic senators demanded that he resign. One of their reasons?

The letter from the Democratic senators also accused him of not fighting hard enough against efforts by U.S. House of Representatives lawmakers to make big cuts in the broadcasting corporation’s budget.

Media Blog reader Kurt K. wrote that the Washington Post

Reason editor Nick Gillespie is talking about defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting on NPR right now:

In FY 2002, Americans spent $20 billion on arts and entertainment and donated $12.2 billion to charities that support the arts. Americans already support the arts, either by buying tickets or making donations. One of my arguments for defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is that it takes away this political sword of Damocles hanging over PBS and NPR, and most of the money the CPB provides would be replaced [by American viewers and listeners].

After putting my conservative cred on the line by writing a positive review of CNN

A headline in the New York Times today declares,

Maryland Democrats got two more press releases reprinted in the Washington Post today. In case you

The volume of e-mails I

Kevin Drum accuses NRO of tossing softballs to Ed Klein in this interview yesterday. I disagree. I understand how liberal pundits must be confused that not all conservatives are taking their hands out of old peoples

Last week, CJR Daily

The Washington Post story that inspired the previous post also inspired an idea related to the LA Times recent experiment with

Last week, the Democrat-controlled Maryland general assembly launched a probe into Gov. Bob Ehrlich

This week

Check out this unbelievable item on CJR Daily, the blog of the Columbia Journalism Review. CJR Daily blogger Paul McLeary opens with the statement,