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No Gain For NFL Network (WSJ)
National Football League executives like to say they offer the most reliably popular sports programming in the U.S. — and with good reason. Their television partners — CBS, Fox, NBC, and ESPN -- pay more than $3 billion a year for it and were rewarded with consistently high ratings in 2006. One network missing out on this bonanza? The NFL's own.

Palestinian Journalists Caught in Gaza Crossfire (Reporters Without Borders)
Palestinian and foreign journalists working in the Palestinian territories are exposed to two different kinds of threats, one from the Israeli army, which has been responsible for many acts of violence against the press since 2000, and more recently from the various Palestinian factions that do not hesitate to target media that criticise them.

Blazing Saddles, Fargo, Rocky Make Film History (Variety)
Fargo, Blazing Saddles, Groundhog Day, Halloween, Notorious, Rocky and sex, lies and videotape are among the well-known films on this year's National Film Registry by the Library of Congress list. A place on the list — always made up of 25 films — guarantees the film will be preserved under the terms of the National Film Preservation Act.

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