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### LA’s TOT an Unethical Budget Prop

Written by Paul Hatfield on May 08 2017.

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## [Stephen Colbert Under Attack … Hollywood Writers to the Defense](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13177:stephen-colbert-under-attack-hollywood-writers-to-the-defense&catid=312)

MEDIA POLITICS--Hollywood's primary writer’s union has come to the defense of member Stephen Colbert after Federal Communications Commission chairman…

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Written by Leron Gubler on May 08 2017.

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Written by Richard Lee Abrams on May 08 2017.

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Written by Paul Hatfield on May 04 2017.

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Written by Beth Cone Kramer on May 04 2017.

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Written by Karen Wolfe on May 04 2017.

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Written by Richard Lee Abrams on May 04 2017.

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Written by Julie Butcher on May 04 2017.

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Written by Patrick Range McDonald on May 04 2017.

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Written by David Bell on May 04 2017.

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Written by Tony Butka on May 04 2017.

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Written by Dick Platkin on May 04 2017.

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Written by Leonard Isenberg on May 04 2017.

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Written by Richard Lee Abrams on May 01 2017.

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Written by Wendell Cox on May 01 2017.

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Written by Tim Deegan on May 01 2017.

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Written by Julie Butcher on May 01 2017.

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Written by Karen Wolfe on May 01 2017.

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Written by Daniel Guss on May 01 2017.

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