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Former NBC Newsman Ken Bode and Former Reader 's Digest
Editor William Schulz Will Promote Public Dialogue
on Balance and Accountability

WASHINGTON, The Corporation for Public
Broadcasting (CPB) today announced the appointments of former NBC newsman Ken
Bode and former Reader's Digest executive editor William Schulz to newly
created positions as CPB ombudsmen. "The new Office of the Ombudsmen
offers an independent sounding board and a public advocate for those concerns."
CPB Chairman Kenneth Y.

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WFP is the world's largest humanitarian agency , distributing food to an
average of 90 million people in more than 80 countries each year, including
56 million hungry children.

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people rebuild their lives and give them hope for the future.

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He has covered politics for The New Republic, served as a national political
correspondent for NBC News, and served as a senior correspondent for CNN. Last year alone, more than 1.

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world that needs peace; it is people.

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The ombudsman office is a
tested and reliable way to support those twin objectives .

The Prem Rawat Foundation Donates $150 000 to World Food Programme

The WFP's Global School Feeding Campaign makes it
possible for children in poor countries to have a healthy meal at school for
19 cents a day -- a gift of hope for a brighter future.

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For the millions of people whose lives have been shattered by
the tsunami, the crisis is far from over."
Millions of people on all continents have approached Prem Rawat for
inspiration and guidance.

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Schulz recently retired after nearly forty years as a Reader's Digest
writer and editor. We are
honored to work with the World Food Programme and know that this donation will
be judiciously utilized to bring food aid to people most in need in
Indonesia.

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ROME, Today in the Italian senate, President Emilio
Colombo, former Prime Minister of Italy, former President of the European
Parliament and a lifetime Senator, hosted a ceremony during which Prem Rawat,
founder of The Prem Rawat Foundation, handed a check for $150,000 to Francesco
Strippoli, Senior Advisor to the Executive Director of the World Food
Programme, to help WFP in its effort to bring food aid to people in Indonesia. Strippoli: "This donation from The Prem Rawat Foundation helps fill a
very real need. For Linda Pascotto, President
of the Foundation, who attended the ceremony: "We are pleased that Prem Rawat
can present today, via his Foundation, this contribution which comes from him
personally and from the generosity of people around the world with an
appreciation for his message of peace and humanitarian efforts.
The event was also attended by Ambassador Romualdo Bettini, Permanent
Representative of Italy at the WFP; Djhar Husein, Deputy Permanent
Representative of Indonesia at the WFP; and Senator Donato Scutari.
Speaking at the United Nations Conference Centre in Bangkok, Prem Rawat
recently said: "Peace needs to be in everyone's life.

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Media organizations who have established similar ombudsman functions report
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"Congress has asked the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to both
protect the production of public broadcasting from undue interference," said
CPB President and CEO Kathleen Cox , "and to ensure that it represents high
standards in accuracy, balance and objectivity.
"On some days we receive praise for what we do, and on other days our
audiences express concerns," said Cox.

Press contact: Jeannie Bunton, 202-879-9687, jbunton@cpb.
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Bode currently is a visiting professor of journalism at DePauw University. As the Digest's Washington bureau chief , he oversaw the
development of nearly 2,000 original articles for the magazine. It is in the heart , waiting to be felt.

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For
five years, Bode was the moderator of public television's Washington Week in
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Bode and Schulz will initiate their own reports as well as respond to
program issues raised by the public and government officials and the public
broadcasting community. The peace we are
looking for is within. When people in the world are at peace
within, the world will be at peace.

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CPB, a private, nonprofit corporation created by Congress in 1967,
oversees the development of educational public television, radio and online
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Reports from the CPB ombudsmen will be available on the CPB website at
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All decisions to review programming -- and all
reports on broadcasts -- will be made by Schulz and Bode. Tomlinson emphasized that CPB "will not permit
concerns over balance to allow CPB to engage in pre-broadcast censorship or
post-broadcast penalties of public broadcasters." He said the presence of
ombudsmen and the presence of free and honest debate "will help ensure the
goal of balance and accuracy in public broadcasting. To see
related documents about the office of the ombudsmen visit:
http://www."
In addition to promoting the message of peace of Prem Rawat, also known as
Maharaji, the Foundation is already distributing food aid in Sri Lanka and
regularly holds free medical clinics in India.