NYTimes Coverage of CPB Incomplete

It's a strange time at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which just hired two new ombudsmen -- a conservative, William Schulz, and ... another conservative, Ken Bode.
Oddly, while The New York Times reported the hires and noted that CPB's Republican chairman, Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, is trying to "correct what he and other conservatives consider liberal bias" at CPB, the paper didn't mention that Schulz is an avowed conservative who previously worked with Tomlinson at Reader's Digest, and Bode is, at best, a middle-of-the-road journalist -- one who endorsed Republican Indiana gubernatorial candidate (and former Bush Office of Management and Budget director) Mitch Daniels in his 2004 race and happens to be an adjunct fellow at the conservative Hudson Institute. Even if, through some contortion of fact and logic, the case could be made that Bode and Schulz "balance" each other out, achieving political "balance" is not the function of an ombudsman, or two. According to The Ombudsman Association's code of ethics, an ombudsman is a "designated neutral" who "strives for objectivity and impartiality."