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| | SMH - Laws says 2UE did not ask for changes to format |
 | | Talkback host John Laws yesterday told the ''cash for comment'' inquiry that although 2UE had raised concerns in writing about allegations made on Media Watch, he was not told to change the format of his high-rating program. |
 | | But Laws repeatedly told the ABA he had not been directed by anyone at 2UE to alter his show's format, either after the first Media Watch program in March 1998, or the second program in July 1999. |
 | | Laws had already told the inquiry that the 2UE chairman, Mr John Conde, had told him that a July 27, 1998, memo issued in the wake of the first Media Watch allegations, which banned the presentation of promotional material as news and embellishing, "did not necessarily apply to him". |
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