Congress targets Sesame Street

Reporter Labaton labels the right but not the left in an article on the controversy over liberal bias at PBS: "The vote came as public stations and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting are engaged in a debate over the editorial balance in programming and the independence of the stations. The head of the Republican-controlled corporation, Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, has pressed public broadcasting to correct what he and other conservatives consider liberal bias. That has prompted public broadcasting leaders -- including the chief executive of PBS -- to object that his actions pose a threat to editorial independence." Read the story at TimesWatch here.