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In the News (Sun 27 Dec 09)

  
 The (Grand Old) Party Players
Other RJC leaders, Honorary President George Klein and National Chair Cheryl Halpern, are also big-time donors to the Republican parties in New York and New Jersey, respectively.
He was the pollster of record for the 1994 Republican “Contract With America,” the campaign that helped the party gain a House majority for the first time in 42 years.
Indeed, in the year 2000, Jews from across the nation are supplying the Republican Party with big money, big ideas and big names in public office.
www.jewishworldreview.com /0800/gop.players.asp

  
 Corporation for Public Broadcasting - SourceWatch
In 2003, President Bush appointed to the CPB board Cheryl Halpern and Gay Hart Gaines, two prominent GOP fundraisers with limited experience in broadcasting or media.
Increased criticism and funding cuts are augmented by CPB chairman Kenneth Tomlinson's support of assistant secretary of state and a former co-chairwoman of the Republican National Committee Patricia Harrison's appointment for the position of CEO.
These political appointees have raised considerable concern that members of the CPB board were readying a charge across the line of neutrality to promote programming that better suits the White House's political agenda.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Corporation_for_Public_Broadcasting   (613 words)

  
 PoliticalMoneyLine
Federal campaign contributions of Cheryl F. Halpern (NJ), in line to become the new head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and her husband Fred, may be viewed using PoliticalMoneyLine’s Donor Name Lookup.
Campaign contributions of individuals and political committees, as well as in-kind payments for fundraising events are required to be reported to the Federal Election Commission and not under the lobby laws.
New campaign finance reports from candidates and PACs are being filed covering financial activty during the second quarter of 2005.
www.tray.com   (613 words)

  
 Current.org Common Cause questions CPB Board appointees, 2004
Together, CPB directors Gay Hart Gaines and Cheryl Halpern and their families have given more than $816,000 to Republican causes over the past 14 years, the political reform lobby said in a little-noticed news release before Christmas [release].
CPB Chairman Kenneth Tomlinson, who said he had been delegated to speak for the board, said pubcasters need not fear dire consequences and that CPB intends to redress any imbalances by backing programs with contrasting views.
Then in the 1990s, CPB Chairman Sheila Tate campaigned doggedly to remove a Democrat from the board, spreading allegations that the Democrat had made romantic overtures toward a CPB vice president [article].
www.current.org /cpb/cpb0401politics.shtml   (1837 words)

  
 AlterNet: Public Broadcasting Veers to the Right
For example, President George W. Bush's most recent CPB appointees, Gay Hart Gaines and Cheryl Halpern, have along with their families given more than $800,000 to the Republican Party and candidates since 1995.
At a time when Americans are finding it more and more difficult to get past the clutter and partisanship on commercial TV and radio to find truthful sources of information about their government, this ideological pressure may gag one of the few sources of independent, substantive news and commentary that Americans can count on.
CPB's primary mission has always been to serve as a "heat shield" between government and public broadcasting, protecting its programming from government interference.
www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=18831   (687 words)

  
 Free Press : Put the Public Back in Public Broadcasting
In September, Tomlinson handed over his chairmanship to Cheryl Halpern, a GOP mega-fundraiser with a background in state propaganda and little experience in public broadcasting.
Public broadcasting is under attack from those in Washington who seek to muzzle dissenting voices on PBS and NPR and eliminate federal funding for the popular alternative to commercial media.
These attacks often come from within public broadcasting itself, from a cast of White House loyalists at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) who seek to politicize and damage an institution that they view as a threat to their ideology.
www.freepress.net /publicbroadcasting   (1171 words)

  
 [ 50th ANNIVERSARY - Yelena Bonner Remarks ]
Introduction to Yelena Bonner by Cheryl Halpern, Broadcasting Board of Governors
[ 50th ANNIVERSARY - Yelena Bonner Remarks ]
www.rferl.org /specials/50Years/celebrating/BonnerRemarks.html   (40 words)

  
 New Conservative Shows Will Throw PBS Off Balance, Liberal Group Says -- 09/17/2004
The media watchdog blamed the new programming on the appointments of Cheryl Halpern and Gay Hart Gaines, who FAIR describes as "big donors to the Republican Party," to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides the largest source of funds for PBS.
The group wrote in an action alert, "According to reports in the public broadcasting newspaper Current (1/19/04, 6/7/04) and in the New Yorker (6/7/04), conservative complaints about the alleged liberal bias of the program 'Now with Bill Moyers' contributed to the momentum to 'balance' the PBS lineup.
The group noted that Gaines fundraised for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and chaired his political action committee GOPAC.
www.cnsnews.com /ViewCulture.asp?Page=\Culture\archive\200409\CUL20040917b.html   (40 words)

  
 Democracy Now! Bill Moyers Responds to CPB's Tomlinson Charges of Liberal Bias: "We Were Getting it Right, But Not Right Wing"
When Senator Lott protested that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has not seemed willing to deal with Bill Moyers, a new member of the board, a Republican fundraiser named Cheryl Halpern, who had been appointed by President Bush, agreed that CPB needed more power to do just that sort of thing.
BILL MOYERS: The story I’ve come to share with you goes to the core of our belief that the quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
Bill Moyers, speaking at the National Conference on Media Reform in St. Louis, Missouri, May 15, 2005.
www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=05/05/16/1329245   (6043 words)

  
 TomPaine.com - Archives - Public Broadcasting As State Television
The Cold War is gone, but that hasn’t loosed the grip on our "state television." While the Congress was in recess last summer, the Bush administration, without comment, appointed Cheryl Halpern, an official of the New Jersey Republican State Committee to the board of directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Public television executives found that if they didn’t knuckle-under and obey these unwritten rules, their next year’s funding would be cut.
Soothing public service pronouncements about "your" public TV mask a devious and complex instrument of competition between political parties to see whose cant is propagated through the application of taxpayer’s dollars to a ubiquitous communications medium.
www.tompaine.com /feature.cfm/ID/7363   (6043 words)

  
 CPB: Remarks by newly elected CPB Chairperson Cheryl Halpern, September 26, 2005
CPB: Remarks by newly elected CPB Chairperson Cheryl Halpern, September 26, 2005
Corporation For Public Broadcasting funds your local station and diverse programming that informs, educates, and inspires.
www.cpb.org /aboutcpb/leadership/statements/halpern/chairremarks050926.html   (878 words)

  
 Cedartown News
Cheryl Halpern, a major Republican fundraiser selected Monday to be the next chairwoman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, vowed to continue to encourage "objectivity and balance" in public television...
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www.topix.net /city/cedartown-ga   (1034 words)

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