Corporation for Public Broadcasting chairman Kenneth Tomlinson has stepped down in anticipation of an inspector general’s report that criticizes him for trying to balance out the liberal content of public TV and radio. It’s sad to see him go but as I’ve written before, I care only marginally about who’s in charge of an agency that should be immediately defunded. The New York Times and the Washington Post are doing touchdown dances, but just because Tomlinson is out doesn’t mean the conservatives he appointed, like CPB president Patricia Harrison, won’t continue his mission.

And I’m not so sure that’s a good thing. Say we all lived on Sesame Street. Should Larry the Liberal have to pay taxes to support “The Journal Editorial Report” any more than Karl the Conservative should have to pay Daniel Schorr’s salary? The only way to end the tug of war is to remove the federal government, which only pays about 15.5 percent of the budget for PBS and NPR.