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Article: CPB accused of hiring partisans.(Corporation for Public Broadcasting)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- November 1, 2005
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Watchdog groups accused Corp. for Public Broadcasting topper Patricia Harrison of hiring fellow partisans for senior jobs. Groups also demanded that CPB make public a soon-to-be-released Inspector General's report about possible malfeasance and political interference with programming.
Free Press, the Center for Digital Democracy and Common Cause issued a joint statement Monday charging that Harrison, a former chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, has recently stacked three key CPB positions with administration and party loyalists from the State Dept., where Harrison worked before coming to pubcasting.
Two came from State's public affairs and ...