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In 2009, when this transition was implemented in the US, there was plentiful advertising and two government coupons for each household to defray the cost of dtv converter boxes. Asked why PSAs are only now being launched less than six months before Canada's dtv transition, Hutton responds by saying the United States "went too early and too big" in its dtv transition and $1 billion set-top converter box coupon programs. So the government put incentives in for families to get up to two digital converter boxes with a coupon.

Legal advocate Erin Brockovich has also responded. Brockovich's fight was the subject of a 2000 feature film, "erin Brockovich," which starred Julia Roberts. Like a bad penny, Erin Brockovich (below), the paralegal queen of junk science jackpots, returned this month to Hinkley, California. Brockovich, who became a household name after actress Julia Roberts portrayed her in the 2000 movie "erin Brockovich," said that people in more than 534 communities across the country have come to her looking for help. She's been getting on tv a lot, even before the murder charge, and, by casting herself as the Erin Brockovich of a crippled economy, she uses the case to angle for book and movie deals. Steve Lendman of RINF.com, in providing a summary of David Sirota’s bestselling book you may remember a town of people who got cancer due to its ill effects from the movie Erin Brockovich.