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Entertainment & Sports

Nov. 10, 2000

CBS, Fox Vie for Right to Show People Dining on Plague's Best Friend

Should the First Amendment protect the right of reality show contestants to eat raw rats - at least once - on similar programs produced by competing networks?

By Garry Abrams

        Should the First Amendment protect the right of reality show contestants to eat raw rats - at least once - on similar programs produced by competing networks?
        Or is the televised trapping, slaying, skinning and devouring of uncooked rodents by desperate, emaciated game-show participants a copyright issue that absolutely forbids...

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