Cursor's Media Patrol - 11/16/05

One day after the Village Voice's Sydney Schanberg wrote that he wondered "what Woodward's newsroom colleagues at the Washington Post think of his put-down of this investigation," two of those colleagues report that 'Woodward was told of Plame more than two years ago.'

Former Corporation for Public Broadcasting Chairman Kenneth Tomlinson repeatedly broke federal law, according to what the New York Times describes as "a scathing report" by the CPB's Inspector General that "described a dysfunctional organization." More from NPR and PBS, the latter at "kenny_11-15.html."

Media Citizen finds something missing from the report: "e-mail traffic between Tomlinson and White House political advisor Karl Rove... This evidence, which may reveal the White House's hand in manipulations of PBS and NPR programming, is still under lock and key at the heavily partisan CPB."

"No wonder Senator Stevens was so adamant about not placing the oil executives under oath," says one observer in response to a White House document obtained by the Washington Post that says 'Oil Chiefs Met With Cheney Task Force' on energy policy.

A Wall Street Journal columnist argues that "Republicans would benefit if Tom DeLay stepped aside" and accepted "what no one is willing to tell him, that he has been neutered." (A low blow for a low man--Dictynna)