CPB Ombudsman Reports http://www.cpb.org/ombudsman/reports.html CPB Ombudsman Reports Marketplace's Bon Qui Qui Moment

Joel Kaplan
May 7, 2013

American Public Media's Marketplace program broadcast an interesting story recently about the failure of fast food chains like McDonald's to offer compelling customer service.

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Joel Kaplan
April 26, 2013

Seán Ó Nualláin is an eclectic person. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Trinity College of Dublin. He has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University and University of California at Berkeley.

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Joel Kaplan
April 24, 2013

For some time now, civil rights activists in Central Florida have been upset at what they see as a lack of diversity at the public radio station in their community, WMFE.

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Joel Kaplan
April 17, 2013

That's what Dr. John M. Rudley, president of Texas Southern University, says about instituting massive changes at a university that had numerous problems when he took over five years ago.

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Joel Kaplan
March 22, 2013

American Public Media's Marketplace segment is a popular—and informative—radio broadcast. One of its hosts, David Lazarus, who is also the Los Angeles Times' consumer columnist, often takes calls from listeners and tries to help them with their money dilemmas.

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 http://www.cpb.org/ombudsman/display.php?id=127 http://www.cpb.org/ombudsman/display.php?id=127 Amenhotep IV vs. Abraham

Joel Kaplan
March 18, 2013

With the excitement following the selection of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope Francis along with the various conflicts in the Middle East involving Christians, Muslims and Jews, it is gratifying to be able to arbitrate a more ancient controversy: who is the world's first monotheist, Amenhotep IV or Abraham.

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Joel Kaplan
February 27, 2013

When we last discussed the travails at Alabama Public Television, the executive director and his deputy had been fired, allegedly for refusing to broadcast programs on creationism from a discredited historian.

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Joel Kaplan
February 4, 2013

Various complaints and observations from the public over the past few weeks ranging from Curious George to Miss America:

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Joel Kaplan
January 1, 2013

2012 CPB Report to Congress Cover Letter

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Joel Kaplan
December 14, 2012

U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs' Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, wants to know if it is true that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is funding the distribution of Al-Jazeera, which he calls the voice of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Moscow-funded Russia Today (RT) and CCTV, which he calls the official propaganda arm of the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party.

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