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Complete Awards Season Coverage

Barack Obama

From Dylan to Lucas: Award-Winning, Washington-Style

-- The Obamas give the National Medal of Arts and Humanities medal; Common Sense Media honors media for kids

Healthcare Summit: Televised Political Theater

-- Obama vs. McCain, Democrats vs. Republicans followed feverishly on cable, online

Obama's Grade on Hollyw'd Issues: Incomplete

-- How the administration has fared on indecency, net neutrality, piracy, media consolidation

Newsweek Gets Obama to Write Cover Story on Haiti

-- Magazine's editor defends decision to give sitting president a byline

WGA, NOW Oppose Comcast-NBCU Deal

-- 25 signatories warn Obama, members of Congress on ramifications of $30B deal

Fed's Comcast-NBCU Review Formally Begins (1)

-- But Justice Department, not the FTC, will review the deal

Democrats Nix C-SPAN Coverage of Health-Care Talks

-- They fear GOP will use it as another delaying tactic

Top Industry Execs Meet with Biden on Piracy (2)

-- VP said the administration is committed to stepping up anti-piracy enforcement -- but was short on specifics.