and said i just heard kenneth tomlinson who was then the chairman of the corporation for public broadcasting say i'm here to get rid of bill moyers that's that's not what pat harrison would do and i don't know or i just happen to have much of a track record and think she is doing a good job but tom this is an old story in the nikkei early nine hundred seventy s. president nixon and his and his his a propagandist pat buchanan tried to undermine public broadcasting to. to get me off the air try to get robert macneil off the air try to get sandy britt ochre off the air not because we were liberals but because we were reporting what they didn't want reported alternative to the official white house next only in view of reality robert doe who was then senator from kansas and senate minority leader tried in the late one nine hundred eighty s. to defund public broadcasting then along comes newt gingrich the late newt gingrich in one nine hundred ninety three and for trying to defund public broadcasting and then you had george w. bush and kill the thomas and his henchmen and the corporation for publi

very well said if we could move back to the to the media for a second you were bush appointed kenneth tomlinson as the chairman of the corporation of a broadcaster and apparently he was a regular critic of you on p.b.s. you say there are times when i was threatened by radio stations to tone it down in your opinion are we. actually not even we is is the corporation for public broadcasting in general moving away from programming in the public interest. well i don't see any evidence of that yet the news corp you know there are good republicans and there are dangers republicans as there are good democrats and and bad democrats and the present president of the corporation for public broadcasting pat harrison is a public minded public spirited republican and i think she is really trying to fulfill the public broadcasting's mission of greater diversity more service of. the public interest trying to protect the independence of public broadcasting her predecessor kind of thomas that was a right wing operative he was a lady a logical kindred spirit of karl rove and i never will forget the day that one of