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...spectacle, a classic Washington combination of cynicism and naivete, seems different this time. For one thing, the lead hectors are not Helmsian right-wingers but liberal Democrats, Senator Paul Simon and Representative Edward Markey. This time, too, TV executives are groveling a bit, making mea culpas. "It's hard not to believe we've had some role in this," says Howard Stringer, CBS's president. Ted Turner told one congressional committee that he and his peers are "guilty of murder." And so, this time, the broadcasters felt obliged to make some concrete concession: starting two months from now, programs that...
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