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CPB chairman Tomlinson failed to refute NY Times' "false" charges against him

In a July 24 interview on C-SPAN's Q&A, Corporation for Public Broadcasting chairman Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, a Republican, claimed that "virtually every charge" leveled against him in a May 2 New York Times article had "either been discredited or proven false." The article documented Tomlinson's efforts to correct perceived "liberal bias" in public broadcasting and focused primarily on four broad issues. While Tomlinson didn't identify which of the specific charges in the Times story he is contesting, evidence surfacing since the article's publication backs up its principal assertions and refutes Tomlinson's subsequent statements on those issues.
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