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Article: Coalition Protests CPB Plan; Group Against Choice of President.(TV Currents)(Corporation for Public Broadcasting)
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- TelevisionWeek
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- June 20, 2005
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Byline: Doug Halonen
In a last-ditch effort to derail the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's plan to name a new president June 20, the watchdog Center for Digital Democracy launched a letter-writing campaign late last week urging CPB to put the decision on hold to give the public and members of Congress an opportunity to comment.
Representatives of the group said they are concerned because they believe the official search for the new executive has been a "smokescreen'' and that CPB's Republican-controlled board is planning to use the occasion to "anoint'' Patricia de Stacy Harrison, a State Department official and a GOP fund-raiser, for the post.
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