On Kenneth Tomlinson
The real danger with the new chairman of Kenneth Tomlinson (and subsequent hiring of a Republican Party hack to weed out “liberal bias”), the old Reader’s Digest president, isn’t so much his affect on the news content — Frontline, NOW with that guy who replaced Bill Moyers — but with Masterpiece Theater.
Can you imagine all these adaptation of Reader’s Digest “Abridged Versions” of classic literature that will be floated around? Yeeesh.