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Submitted: July 5, 2010 - 9:05pm
Originally published: July 5, 2010
Last updated: July 5, 2010 - 9:08pm
Originally published: July 5, 2010
Last updated: July 5, 2010 - 9:08pm
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Hill, The
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Sara Jerome
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Senate Judiciary Committee, Constitution Avenue and 1st Street, NE , Washington, DC, 20002, United States
At the confirmation hearing of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, Sen Al Franken (D-MN) blasted the prospective Comcast-NBC Universal merger and pressed Ms Kagan for her views on network neutrality.
She declined to weigh in on the pending merger, but generally supported Franken's description that free-speech rights promote media diversity. "One of the purposes of the First Amendment is to ensure a public sphere in which all kinds of thoughts and views can be expressed and we can learn from all of them," she said.
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