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Broadcasting & Cable, September, 2000

Stay the new course Sen. Joe Lieberman, who has toned down the anti-media rhetoric of late to appease the Democrats' Hollywood fan base, faces a test of that kinder, gentler turn to the middle. The Federal Trade Commission's planned release of a study on the marketing of violent media--Lieberman was one of the voices calling for such a study--could well become a campaign issue given the timing of its release later this month and its expected harsh criticism of Hollywood.

While Lieberman's long-running production of "Media Crimes and Misdemeanors" has never played well in Tinseltown, it has packed 'em in at press conferences and hearing rooms inside the Beltway. There is, then, the possibility that the would-be VP could slip into old habits and...

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