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kontextmaschine:

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So the thing about Family Guy\u2019s recurring \u201casian reporter Tricia Takanawa\u201d and \u201cBlaccuweather\u201d jokes is that FCC recertification required local stations to prove they were \u201cserving the community\u201d

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and for a while (like tapering off a bit under Clinton, when midcentury liberalism finally washed out of the American administrative state) identity-organized pressure groups would hassle them over that and part of how the stations would prove was by putting colored faces in their main self-produced output, local news

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in secondary roles

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A more contemporary parody was Miranda Veracruz de la Hoya Cardinal from\u00a0\u201cMarried With Children\u201d.

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