Global warming skeptic William Gray, from the TCS Daily VNR [3]

A White House "personnel announcement" states: "The President intends to nominate James K. Glassman [4], of Connecticut, to be a Member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors [5], for the remainder of a three-year term expiring 8/13/07 and an additional three-year term expiring 8/13/10." President Bush will also nominate Glassman to be BBG Chair. Glassman is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute [6] conservative think tank [7], the author of the wildly inaccurate book "Dow 36000," and the founder of Tech Central Station [8] (TCS), a corporate-sponsored news and opinion site published by the Republican-associated lobbying firm DCI Group [9] until last year. TCS has been accused of "journo-lobbying" or online fake news [10], for its tendency to not fully disclose its corporate sponsors (which often have a direct financial stake in the issues covered on the site). TCS also runs "TCS Daily," which received significant funding [3] from ExxonMobil [11] and paid for a video news release [12] denying the evidence that global warming [13] is causing more severe hurricane seasons. If confirmed by the Senate, Glassman would replace controversial BBG Chair Kenneth Tomlinson [14].