Media Minutes for August 5, 2010
Producer: Stevie Converse and Megan Tady
Length: 5:02

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The U.S. Postal Service’s recent proposal to hike postal rates has small print publications and news outlets worried for their future. And a deal between Google and Verizon could mark the beginning of the end of the Internet as we know it.

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