The American Film Institute on Wednesday detailed what it is calling the year's Moments of Significance, eight developments that impacted the worlds of TV and film. And they are:— Clint Eastwood's double whammy of Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima— The passing of filmmaker Robert Altman— The influence of documentaries such as An Inconvenient Truth and Iraq in Fragments— The rise of YouTube— The migration of TV news to this "Internet" thing— The death of VHS— The reaffirmation of a moral standard for television, as evidenced by Fox's decision to snuff the O.J. Simpson special— The Big Four networks fighting the FCC's indecency crackdownNo mention of Gwen Stefani's "Wind It Up" video.
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