Associated Press Black Panther chairman Bobby Seale (left) and Huey Newton, in a 1960s photo. Seale is a figure in “Chicago 10.”

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Political conventions like the Democratic one in Denver this week are among the most stage-managed “news” events on the planet. Suspense takes a holiday. What happens outside can't always be so carefully scripted, though.

If one of the many weather updates featured on KSWB's new “Fox 5 Morning News” tackled the condition of the station's fledgling news operation, “technically stormy with increasing patches of improvement” would sum it up pretty nicely.

“Beijing, Olympics: It's two weeks of competition to see which country has the best pharmacist,” David Letterman monologue, CBS' “Late Show With David Letterman.”