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FCC looking into “60 Minutes” blackout issue

March 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Reuters’ Peter Kaplan is reporting Monday that FCC commissioner Michael Copps is looking into allegations that a Huntsville, Alabama CBS affiliated “blacked out” a segment of “60 Minutes” on February 24 that contained “civil rights footage from the 1960s.”

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Link Scoop 2/25/08

February 26th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Further making me want to shoot myself in the head is the quote Gruber pulled from an article on Techdirt, about TiVo vs. a video-on-demand product.
If you guessed $2.4 billion for the value of Getty Images’ archive, you win!
Romenesko notes the WaPo’s latest style changes. “Gay” is now in, “illegal aliens” are now “illegal immigrants.” […]

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