Tomlinson Defends Alhurra TV

[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
Ken Tomlinson -- who resigned from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Board in the wake of a CPB Inspector General's report on his relationship with the board -- was on Capitol Hill Thursday in his capacity as chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, explaining another investigation launched into Alhurra Television and a complementary radio operation that are the voices of America in the Middle East. Some of the issues raised included Alhurra single-source contracting, its outsourcing to Associated Press Television News, and whether "its policy of discouraging reporters from rushing to cover breaking news leaves the likes of AL-Jazeera to be the primary source of time-sensitive information."
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6283225?display=Breaking+News...
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* Limbaugh distorted Tomlinson resignation: "He was trying to get some conservative programming on NPR and PBS"
http://mediamatters.org/items/200511090009