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Article: QVCBS. (satiric, make-believe broadcast by CBS News anchors Dan Rather and Connie Chung in the aftermath of the merger with the QVC Home Shopping Network) (Column)

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August 1, 1994
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"We have allowed [TV news], this great instrument, this resource, this weapon for good, to be squandered and cheapened. . . . Analysis is out, |live pops' are in. Action Jackson' is the cry. Hire lookers, not writers. Do powder-puff, not probing, interviews. Stay away from controversial subjects. Make nice, not news. This has become the new mantra. These have become the new rules." --Dan Rather, October 1993 "CBS to Merge with QVC Home Shopping Network"'

--Newspaper headline, June 1994

Connie: Good evening. Tonight's top story: Bad medicine on Capitol Hill.

Dan: President Clinton's bold plan to fix the health-care mess is running smack-dab ...

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