| November 10, 2008 | - A German shoplifter with no arms stole a 24-inch television. “It's hard to believe,” said a police officer, “that the sight of an armless man walking along with a giant TV clamped to his body did not get anyone's attention.”
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Short News
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| September 3, 2008 | - Cambridge University, seeking to attract a more diverse student body and to shed its elitist image, asked the producers of leading British
soap operas to mention the school in their storylines.
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Southeast Missourian
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| July 23, 2007 | - It was announced that the United States would have a woman as president on the next season of “24.”
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CNN
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| July 18, 2007 | -
Oprah Winfrey's dog died when it choked on a ball.
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Forbes.com
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| July 13, 2007 | -
Nicole Richie let it be known that she dates only circumcised men.
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Lifestyle Extra
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| May 2, 2007 | - Britons were enjoying a new reality television series called “Fat Teens Can't Hunt” in which ten overweight teenagers were sent to Australia's outback to live and eat with Aboriginal communities.
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Reuters
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| November 20, 2006 | - The host of a popular satirical Iraqi
television show was found murdered. “He was a star in the galaxy of Iraqi
arts,” said the show's director. “Now, he's another sacrifice on the altar of this slaughtered country.”
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Washington Post
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| November 2, 2006 | - Channel 4, Britain's second largest television network, announced that Google's U.K. advertising revenues would outstrip the broadcaster's own by some hundred million pounds this year. “People need to wake up and realize that this is not just a cyclical issue,” said the network's chief executive. “There is deep structural change, rather like global warming.”
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Times of London
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| September 13, 2006 | -
Australian officials suspected that ten stingrays found dead with their tails cut off had been killed to avenge television personality Steve Irwin.
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Irwin's death sparks bout of stingray mutilations
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| August 29, 2006 | -
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad challenged U.S. President George Bush to a televised debate.
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Reuters
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| May 17, 2006 | - In Santa Ana, California, a homeless man was arrested after he told five boys he would cast them in a television commercial, then licked their feet.
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CBS News
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| May 15, 2006 | - A study found that only one in four United States teenagers knows the names of all four broadcast TV networks.
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Advertising Age
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| March 27, 2006 | -
American and Iraqi forces said they had killed 17 Shiite militiamen at a mosque in Baghdad; Iraqi television showed corpses in a prayer room.
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The New York Times
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| March 18, 2006 | - In New Mexico a Mescalero Apache family was suing the producers of the Steven Spielberg-produced TV show "Into the West" for cutting the hair of eight-year-old actress Christina Ponce. Mescalero tradition forbids cutting a girl's hair before she reaches puberty; the filmmakers trimmed Ponce because they were short of Indian boys.
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BBC News
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| March 3, 2006 | -
Laura Bush counted to five on Indian children's TV. "She loved Boombah," said an official from a television studio, "the giant, cuddly, Punjabi-rapping lion."
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Express India
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| February 1, 2006 | - Telesur, the Latin American
TV network backed by the Venezuelan government, announced that it would collaborate with the Middle Eastern TV network Al Jazeera.
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BBC News
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| January 29, 2006 | - U.S. murderers were learning how to cover their tracks by watching television crime shows.
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AP via Yahoo! News
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| October 3, 2005 | -
British scientists found that watching television slows the development of children's brains.
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The Age
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| July 22, 2005 | - The U.S. House of Representatives passed an amendment to start broadcasting radio and television programs into Venezuela that will counter the “anti-Americanism” of Telesur, a new Latin American TV station. Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez called the plan “a preposterous imperialist idea.”
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Common Dreams
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| June 1, 2005 | - Haim Yavin, one of the founders of Israel's state television channel and the country's most respected news presenter, broadcast a documentary showing Israel's occupation of Palestine as brutal. “I cannot really do anything to relieve this misery,” he said, “other than document it.”
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BBC News
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| May 27, 2005 | - In North Carolina a man was released from prison after serving thirty-five years of his life sentence for stealing a $140 TV set.
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WRAL.com
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| May 6, 2005 | -
Turkey banned four porn channels from its satellite TV network.
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Reuters
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| April 22, 2005 | - Ken Ferree, the new president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, said that he wanted to make PBS appealing to conservatives.
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Editor & Publisher
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| March 31, 2005 | - A handicapped man used a computer chip implanted in his brain to control a television.
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BBC
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| March 28, 2005 | -
George W. Bush was showing the world his frisky, impishly fun side, telling a Belgian
television correspondent that she had “great eyes,” and rubbing bald heads for luck.
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New York Times
Source 2:
Globe and Mail
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| March 12, 2005 | - A television exploded in Egypt, killing four children.
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National Post
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| November 12, 2004 | -
Television was banned in Afghanistan.
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WJLA
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| September 15, 2004 | - The U.S. Department of Labor said that the average working woman spends twice as much time doing household tasks and caring for children as the average working man; working women also sleep an average one hour less than working men. The survey also said that the average adult has about five hours of leisure time a day and spends half of it watching TV.
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New York Times
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| May 5, 2004 | -
Al Gore and a group of investors bought a cable television news channel they plan to market to young people.
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New York Times
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| April 5, 2004 | - A new study found that toddlers who watch too much television are more likely to have a hard time concentrating by age seven.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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| August 6, 2003 | - Jerry Springer, the talk-show host, decided not to run for the Senate in Ohio.
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CNN.com
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| August 5, 2003 | -
Arnold Schwarzenegger appeared on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and announced his candidacy for governor in the California recall election; other candidates include the former child-actor Gary Coleman, the pornographer Larry Flynt, a porn star named Mary Carey, and Arianna Huffington, a newspaper columnist.
“This is America,” said Carey.
“I am just as dignified as Arnold Schwarzenegger, and I can speak English.”
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CNN.com
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| December 10, 2002 | -
Britain's
Broadcast Advertising Clearance Center banned an advertisement for a comedy program that depicts George W. Bush putting a videotape into a toaster.
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| July 23, 2002 | -
Meow Mix, the cat-food company, was working on a television show for cats, featuring “squirrels, bouncing balls, birds, and all the things cats love to watch.”
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| October 30, 2001 | - Secretary of State Colin Powell appointed Charlotte Beers, an advertising executive best known for the Head and Shoulders campaign, to be undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs; Beers said her job would be the rebranding of America: “It's the battle for the 11-year-old mind.” Bush Administration officials met with television executives to discuss effective propaganda strategy.
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| October 16, 2001 | - The major American television networks agreed, out of patriotism, they said, to a request by National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice not to broadcast future statements by Osama bin Laden; Rice said she was concerned about secret messages being communicated to “sleeper” terrorists in the United States but did not reveal how she would prevent such evil-doers from viewing the speech via the Internet or satellite television.
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| October 2, 2001 | -
Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor told a New York audience that “we're likely to experience more restrictions on our personal freedom than has ever been the case in our country.” White House spokesman Ari Fleischer denounced television personality Bill Maher for saying that firing cruise missiles at targets 2,000 miles away was perhaps more cowardly that flying a plane into a tall building: “There are reminders to all Americans that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do, and this is not a time for remarks like that; there never is.” “Watch what they say,” which was captured on tape, was omitted from the official White House transcript.
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| September 25, 2001 | - American Eagle TV was laying plans for a cable channel that would broadcast continuous live coverage of an American eagle family.
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| September 4, 2001 | -
India decided to subsidize televisions for poor people in the hope that increased viewing would cut down on sex and thus the swelling population.
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| August 7, 2001 | - Chris Morris, a British comic, tricked several politicians and celebrities into saying absurd things on television about the Internet and pedophilia. “Using an area of the Internet the size of Ireland,” a Labour member of parliament said, “pedophiles can make your keyboard release toxic vapors that can make you more suggestible.”
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| August 7, 2001 | -
Cheney's aide, Mary Matalin, formerly a television personality, said the energy task force had nothing to hide but would continue to hide it anyway.
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| June 26, 2001 | - Minneapolis, hoping to boost tourism, was preparing to install a bronze statue of Mary Tyler Moore throwing her hat in the air at the corner of Seventh Street and Nicollet Avenue, just like on TV. “Tossing the hat inspired so many women,” Mayor Sharon Sayles-Belton told a reporter. “It showed us we're capable. We're bold. And we're cute.”
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| May 29, 2001 | -
South Korea's advertising review board banned a Kim Jong Il impersonator from television ads, apparently worried that the public was not yet ready to buy soap from the Dear Leader of North Korea.
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| April 17, 2001 | - Attorney General John Ashcroft said he would allow the families of Timothy McVeigh's victims to watch McVeigh die on closed-circuit television.
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| March 20, 2001 | -
President Bush made the TV news when he bumped his head getting into Air Force One.
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| March 13, 2001 | - A seventeen-year-old boy beat his father to death with a baseball bat because he didn't want to turn off two radios and a television that he was listening to simultaneously; the boy told police that he then went bowling, tried to slash his wrists, and deliberately crashed his dead father's Jeep in a second attempt to end it all.
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| February 20, 2001 | - Prime Minister Hun Sen of Cambodia demanded that sexy women be banished from Cambodian television.
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| February 13, 2001 | - A television station in Israel broadcast a home video of a rape. A cougar on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, attacked and tried to eat a man.
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| February 6, 2001 | -
Chinese
television broadcast footage of five Falun Gong members setting themselves on fire in Tiananmen Square; one of them was a twelve-year-old girl, who was shown in close-up crying “Mama! Mama!” The girl's mother, who supposedly told her that she would not feel the flames and would be instantly sent to paradise, died.
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| January 2, 2001 | - Experts theorized that poor people were fat because they spend too much time in front of the television
eating Big Macs and such.
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| December 19, 2000 | -
Slobodan Milosevic was interviewed on Yugoslav television: “I can sleep peacefully,” he said, “and my conscience is completely clear.” Chile's former dictator General Augusto Pinochet was spending peaceful days at his country house, strolling in the garden, playing with his grandchildren.
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| December 12, 2000 | -
President Clinton finally got around to visiting Nebraska, the home of Reuben sandwiches, Kool-Aid, TV dinners, and William Jennings Bryan. “I'm a pretty good talker,” he told a crowd.
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| December 12, 2000 | -
George W. Bush told a television interviewer that he wasn't “exactly sure” what the word “snippy” meant: “We don't use that word here too often down here in Texas.”
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| November 21, 2000 | -
Russia decided to go ahead and crash the space station Mir into the Pacific ocean, disappointing Dennis Tito, an American businessman who had hoped to pay $20 million to visit the doomed station, and television executives, who were planning to film a “reality-based” television program there.
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| November 21, 2000 | -
Russian oligarch Vladimir Gusinsky gave up and let the Putin government take over his media company, which owns Russia's leading independent TV station, but the deal fell apart; esoteric explanations abounded.
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| November 14, 2000 | - South African television broadcast a 1998 training video showing black prisoners being mauled repeatedly by police
dogs as they begged for mercy; six white policemen were arrested shortly thereafter.
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| October 3, 2000 | - An Italian
television station broadcast selections from child
pornography videos after investigators, in an Internet sting operation, arrested eight Italian perverts.
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| September 12, 2000 | -
Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky claimed that the Kremlin told him to sell his stake in a major television station or risk going to jail.
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| September 5, 2000 | -
Europe's tallest structure, a 1,772-foot television tower in Moscow, burned, killing at least three and disrupting television for 20 million Russians.
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| September 5, 2000 | - Mastercard International, Inc. sued Ralph Nader's presidential campaign, claiming that Nader's television ad parodying Mastercard's “priceless” advertising campaign was a copyright infringement.
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| August 1, 2000 | -
Zimbabwe's state television station reported that President Mugabe has decided to seize 3,000 farms as part of a land redistribution program.
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