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Right Here in River City!

12 Aug 1998 06:30 am

The recent announcement that CBS will bless America's TV watchers this fall with a second 60 Minutes--a lighter, crispier version--sparks the inevitable question: How many weeks will pass before former CNN producer April Oliver is hired to produce a segment on the secret U.S. Army plan to drop leprous dogs on the heads of innocent Sandinistas?

Actually, that is not the real inevitable question. The real inevitable question is this: Now that television is flush with newsmagazines--two or three each night, it seems--where are producers going to find all that news?
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