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  • FCC Official Wants Probe of "60 Minutes" Black-Out

    03/04/2008 7:22:18 PM PST · by fight_truth_decay · 4 replies · 155+ views
    reuters ^ | Mar 3, 2008 | By Peter Kaplan
    A U.S. Federal Communications Commission official is seeking an inquiry into the blacking out of a politically charged segment of the CBS News magazine "60 Minutes" by a local television station in Alabama. FCC Commissioner Michael Copps said he had asked the chairman of the FCC to open an inquiry into the February 24 incident at WHNT, a CBS affiliate in Huntsville, Alabama, in which civil rights footage from the 1960s was blacked out. "The FCC now needs to find out if something analogous is going on here," Copps said at a luncheon with media watchdog groups. "Was this an...