The Washington Post style section ran a piece yesterday about Cheryl Halpern succeeding Ken Tomlinson as chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The story conspicuously failed to mention that Halpern has a long record in broadcasting (as well as in women’s issues, education, and international affairs).

It fails to mention that as far back as 15 years ago, she was a member of the Board for International Broadcasting and a director of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). And from 1995 through 2002, she served on the Broadcasting Board of Governors overseeing Voice of America, Radio and TV Marti, RFE/RL, Worldnet, Radio Free Asia and Radio Free Iraq.

What does the story tell us about her instead? That she is a GOP contributor and that her election means “tightening conservative control over the agency that overseas National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service.”

When Clinton was President and he made these kinds of appointments, were there stories in the Washington Post about “tightening liberal control” over NPR and PBS? I’ll give odds there were not.

Also in the piece, new CPB Ombudsman Ken Bode dismisses allegations of liberal bias at PBS and NPR, saying “considerations of fair and balanced is [sic] not as big a problem here as elsewhere. This is not Fox News.”

Now as Mark Levin reminds me, among the liberals in Fox’s stable are hosts Greta Van Susteren, Shep Smith and Alan Colmes as well as contributors/commentators David Corn, Eleanor Clift, Mara Liason, Juan Williams, Susan Estrich, Wesley Clarke and Bob Beckel.

By contrast, the conservatives regularly heard on NPR and PBS include Paul Gigot and … uh, well Tucker Carlson used to have a program on PBS… and … umm…let’s see …there was Bill Buckley’s Firing Line when I was a kid …and on NPR there is … well … uh … can someone help me here? Mr. Bode?