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</div><div>=</div><div>2 CTT?</div><div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:nnOIbKPgR6YJ:www.cpb.org/about/corp/bios/board/tomlinson.html+&cd=14&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); outline: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px;">Cheryl Feldman Halpern was the chair of the </a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_for_Public_Broadcasting" title="Corporation for Public Broadcasting" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">Corporation for Public Broadcasting</a> (CPB) from 2005 to 2007. In this capacity, she has been a critic of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Public_Radio" title="National Public Radio" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">National Public Radio</a>, accusing the public network of anti-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel" title="Israel" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">Israeli</a>bias. She has extensive experience with overseeing pro-American media campaigns abroad.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>] In 1990, she was confirmed as a member of the Board for International Broadcasting and as a director of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). From 1995 through 2002, she served as a member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which oversees non-military overseas broadcasts by the US Government such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Mart%C3%AD" title="Radio Martí" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">Radio Martí</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America" title="Voice of America" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">Voice of America</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Iraq" title="Radio Free Iraq" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">Radio Free Iraq</a>.Halpern has been nominated to the boards of national or international public broadcasting organizations by Presidents <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H.W.Bush" title="George H.W. Bush" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">George H.W. Bush</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">Bill Clinton</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">George W. Bush</a>. She is also a board member of the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Institute_for_Near_East_Policy" title="Washington Institute for Near East Policy" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">Washington Institute for Near East Policy</a>, a Washington D.C.-based <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_policy_interest_group" title="Foreign policy interest group" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">foreign policy interest group</a>, and of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Republican_Institute" title="International Republican Institute" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">International Republican Institute</a>.Additionally, President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">George W. Bush</a> appointed Halpern to serve on the Honorary Delegation to accompany him to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">Jerusalem</a> for the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Israel" title="State of Israel" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">State of Israel</a> in May 2008.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Halpern#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a>In December 2008, Halpern was nominated to be an alternate U.N. representative for the United States (Alternate representatives present U.S. views in a number of smaller forums, including at committee meetings and at ancillary U.N. bodies). She will hold this position until September 2009 when the U.N. General Assembly's 63rd session ends.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Halpern#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a><h2 style="color: black; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;">References[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cheryl_Halpern&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: References" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><div class="reflist columns references-column-count references-column-count-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.3em; -webkit-column-count: 2; list-style-type: decimal;"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; 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</div><div></div><div>Major GOP Donor Favored as Next CPB Chairman
By Paul Farhi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 15, 2005 
A leading Republican donor who once suggested that public broadcasting journalists should be penalized for biased programs is the top candidate to succeed the controversial chairman at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, according to people at CPB and others in public broadcasting.Cheryl F. Halpern, who was appointed to the CPB board by President Bush three years ago, is in line to replace Kenneth Y. Tomlinson as the head of the agency that distributes federal funds to noncommercial radio and TV stations and serves as a buffer between public broadcasting and politicians seeking to influence its news reporting and programming.Tomlinson's second one-year term expires in September and he cannot be reappointed. He has stirred debate in recent months by contending that programs carried by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR) favor liberal views. He has spearheaded an effort to address the issue, amid denials of bias by NPR and PBS officials.Halpern, a lawyer and real-estate developer in New Jersey, is a close ally of Tomlinson's and is part of the five-member Republican majority that controls the CPB board (Democrats hold three seats, one of which is vacant). Halpern's association with Tomlinson stretches back more than a decade, to when both were on the board of the agency that oversees the federal government's international broadcasting services, such as Voice of America and Radio Free Europe.Halpern and her husband, Fred, have been major financial supporters of Republican candidates for years. At one point during the 2004 elections, Mother Jones magazine ranked the Halperns among the nation's top 100 "hard" money donors (contributions made directly to candidates, not party organizations) and said they contributed a total of $81,800 to, among others, President Bush and Republican Sens. Trent Lott (Miss.), Sam Brownback (Kan.), Conrad Burns (Mont.) and Christopher Bond (Mo.). The magazine said that 95 percent of their contributions during that election cycle went to Republicans.At the Senate confirmation hearing on her nomination to the CPB board in 2003, Halpern expressed agreement with Lott after he questioned the objectivity of PBS journalist and commentator Bill Moyers."There has to be recognition that an objective, balanced code of journalistic ethics has got to prevail across the board, and there needs to be accountability," she said at the hearing. She agreed with Lott that penalties were justified when balance fails, although she acknowledged that CPB rules prohibit interfering with programming decisions. Neither she nor Lott elaborated on what sort of penalties they favored.She contrasted that lack of authority to her role on the federal Broadcast Board of Governors. "Going back to my BBG days, we were able to remove physically somebody who had engaged in editorialization of the news," she said, according to an account in Current, the public broadcasting newspaper.Halpern's political activity and confirmation-hearing comments could make her elevation to chairman as controversial as CPB's recent hiring of its new president, Patricia Harrison, a former co-chairman of the Republican National Committee. The appointment of Harrison last month touched off allegations of partisanship by public broadcasting executives, as well as calls by Democrats for Tomlinson's resignation and for an investigation by CPB's inspector general. The inspector general said this week that he has launched such a probe.Halpern was unavailable for comment yesterday. CPB officials declined to provide contact information for her and efforts to reach her through two Washington think tanks she is associated with were unsuccessful.People at CPB say another Republican board member, Gay Hart Gaines, would be the likely alternative if Halpern declines to pursue the chairmanship, which requires a vote of the agency's board. Gaines, an interior decorator by training, was a charter member and a chairman of GOPAC, a Republican fundraising group that then-Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) used to engineer the GOP takeover of the House in 1994. Gingrich advocated eliminating the CPB when he became House speaker in 1995.PBS officials declined to comment directly on Halpern's potential succession yesterday. But PBS President Pat Mitchell took an indirect shot at Republican-led efforts to address alleged bias by saying in a statement, "Our hope is that the next chairman of the CPB board, no matter who it is, will uphold the charter of the CPB, which is to support the independence of public broadcasting by distributing federal funds and protecting programming from the influences of any and all funding sources."In a related matter, the Senate Appropriations Committee voted yesterday to fund the CPB next year at about the same level as this year -- an action considered a victory by public radio and TV stations. The Senate panel restored about $111 million in funds that had been cut by the House when it voted on public broadcasting's budget last month.The money is earmarked to help public TV stations convert their signals to digital broadcasts, pay for upgrading the satellite system used by public TV stations and fund a program that subsidizes the production of educational children's programs, including "Sesame Street" and "Arthur." The Senate legislation also restored the practice of advance funding, providing $400 million for CPB in fiscal 2008."We've really had a public referendum on the question of federal funding for public broadcasting, and Congress has responded," John Lawson, president and chief executive of the Association of Public Television Stations, said in a statement. The association is public broadcasting's lobbying organization.The bill next goes to the Senate floor. A conference committee of House and Senate members will meet in the fall to work out differences in their versions.</div><div></div><div>
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</div><div>CPB Taps Two GOP Conservatives for Top Posts
By Paul Farhi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 27, 2005 
A leading Republican donor and fundraiser was elected chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting yesterday, tightening conservative control over the agency that oversees National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service.Cheryl F. Halpern, a New Jersey lawyer and real estate developer, won approval from the CPB's board. She succeeds a close board ally, Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, who stirred controversy earlier this year by contending that public broadcasting favors liberal views. Tomlinson's term as chairman had expired, but he will remain a member of the board.The board also elected another conservative, Gay Hart Gaines, as its vice chairman. Gaines, an interior decorator by training, was a charter member and a chairman of GOPAC, a Republican fundraising group that then-Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) used to engineer the GOP takeover of the House in 1994.With the changes, conservatives with close ties to the Bush administration have assumed control of every important position at the agency, which distributes about $400 million in federal funds to noncommercial radio and TV stations and is supposed to act as a buffer against outside political influence.Gaines succeeds the CPB's highest-ranking Democrat, Frank Cruz. Her election came after the agency's board, which is dominated by Republicans, rejected a bid for the vice chairmanship by its lone independent member, Beth Courtney.In June, the board named former Republican National Committee co-chairman Patricia Harrison as the CPB's president and chief executive, angering Democrats."It's mind-boggling," Ernest J. Wilson II, one of two Democrats on the eight-member board, said in an interview. "They had an opportunity to send a bipartisan signal. They took the opportunity to send a very different kind of signal."Halpern and her husband, Fred, have for years been financial supporters of Republican candidates, including President Bush and Republican Sens. Trent Lott (Miss.), Sam Brownback (Kan.), Conrad Burns (Mont.) and Christopher Bond (Mo.). Mother Jones magazine ranked the Halperns among the nation's top 100 "hard" money donors (contributions made directly to candidates, not party organizations) during the 2004 election cycle, estimating their contributions at $81,800.She has in the past been critical of NPR's reporting on the Middle East, particularly its coverage of the Israeli government. During her confirmation hearings for a seat on the CPB board in 2003, Halpern suggested that CPB members should have the authority to penalize public broadcasting journalists who air biased programs. When she was a member of the federal agency that oversees Voice of America and Radio Free Europe, she said during her confirmation hearing, "We were able to remove physically somebody who had engaged in editorialization of the news."In a brief interview yesterday, Halpern declined to express her personal views about bias in public broadcasting. But she said, "We will not be intervening in programming." Allegations of slanted programming, she said, will be referred to the CPB's ombudsmen for review.In contrast to Tomlinson, CPB's two ombudsmen, Ken Bode and William Schulz, have found no evidence of liberal bias after five months on the job. Instead, they have mostly offered praise in the few reports each has issued since Tomlinson created their positions, which pay each of them $50,000 a year for part-time work. In a report issued Sept. 1, for example, Bode observed: "My own conclusion is no different than my perception of PBS and NPR when I accepted the position of ombudsman in April -- that considerations of fair and balanced is not as big a problem here as elsewhere. This is not Fox News."</div><div>==</div>