Media Minutes for April 3, 2009
Producer: Stevie Converse and Candace Clement
Length: 5:01

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Several public interest groups want to see the broadband mapping process taken out of private hands and conducted instead by a government agency. And the quick and mobile social networking site Twitter facilitates reporting on the turmoil in Madagascar.

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