One of the stranger stories among many to come out of this year’s annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas occurred on Thursday evening, when technology blog CNET abruptly announced it was disqualifying from its “Best of CES” awards the satellite TV company DISH’s “Hopper with Sling” DVR (digital video recorder) product, due to CNET’s parent company CBS’s ongoing litigation with DISH. As CNET wrote in a note attached to the bottom of its otherwise positive review:
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