Profile: Cartoon Network to air all but 12 Bugs Bunny cartoons, which are deemed racially offensive, in weekend marathon

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Profile: Cartoon Network to air all but 12 Bugs Bunny cartoons, which are deemed racially offensive, in weekend marathon

Host: BOB EDWARDS Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 Noon

BOB EDWARDS, host:

Everyone's favorite carrot-munching, wisecracking rabbit will be popping up in homes this weekend as the Cartoon Network presents a Bugs Bunny marathon. The Atlanta-based cable channel will show Bugs Bunny non- stop for 49 hours. It could have been 50. The network will not be running 12 cartoons from the 1930s and '40s that contain racial stereotypes. From member station WABE in ...

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