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	<title><![CDATA[FCC Endorses Junk News, Calls Fox's TMZ and 700 Club 'Bona fide Newscasts']]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-silver/fcc-endorses-junk-news-ca_b_100397.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Hard-hitting journalism is nearing extinction on television, and the Federal Communications Commission just threw another shovelful of dirt on its grave when it <a href="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117985089.html?categoryid=14&amp;cs=1">recently ruled</a> that Rupert Murdoch's broadcast of <em>TMZ</em> and Pat Robertson's <em>700 Club</em> meet the test for "a bona fide newscast." Bona fide newscast? You tell me:</p>

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<p>Here's why the FCC decision matters. According to a Pew study, <a href="http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=384">sixty percent of Americans</a> get their primary...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Media]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-05-14T05:12:00-04:00</date_published>
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