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BUSH BATTLES BUNNY Friday, January 28 2005 Several local public broadcasting stations may defy the Bush administration and PBS and air an episode of the animated children's series Postcards from Buster that features an animated bunny visiting a real family headed by a lesbian couple, the Los Angeles Times reported today (Friday). Earlier this week, the program was denounced by the Department of Education's new secretary, Margaret Spellings, who said that the Department's "purpose in funding this programming certainly was not to (more) FCC'S COPPS PUSHES FOR MORE INDEPENDENTLY PRODUCED SHOWS Thursday, January 27 2005 
FCC
Commissioner
Michael
Copps
on
Wednesday
called
on
the
TV
networks
to
set
aside
25
percent
of
their
primetime
hours
for
programs
from
independent
producers.
Speaking
by
closed-circuit
TV
to
a
convention
of
TV
programmers
in
Las
Vegas,
Copps
said
that
the
disappearance
of
independent
producers
has
resulted
in
a
lack
of
diversity
in
programming.
"Most
observers
are
telling
me
that
the
doors
of
opportunity
are
fast
closing
and
that
we
won't
have
a
new
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