Sen. Specter Questions "Propriety" Of Public Broadcasting Chief Tomlinson...

A senior Republican and a senior Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee endorsed overturning proposed cuts to the budget of public broadcasting on Monday, while the chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting defended himself against accusations by Democrats that he has injected politics into programming.

"I have brought the issue of political balance - common-sense political balance - to the debate," said Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, the corporation's chairman, in his first appearance before Congress since recent disclosures that he was under investigation by the corporation's inspector general for a series of decisions and payments to consultants that he has said were necessary to ensure balance in programming.

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