Media Minutes for July 17, 2009
Producer: Stevie Converse and Candace Clement
Length: 5:00

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Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) told FCC nominees Mignon Clyburn and Meredith Attwell Baker that the FCC was broken, and he expects them to fix it. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) asked Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor about the Internet and the First Amendment. And the mainstream media's racist and sexist coverage of Sotomayor's nomination is making Mary Alice Crim of Free Press angry.

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