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Computer_Guy
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Fake TV News Widespread and Undisclosed
Fake TV News: News Release
Contact:
Diane Farsetta or John Stauber, CMD, (608) 260-9713
Craig Aaron, Free Press, (202) 265-1490 x 25
New Report: Fake TV News Widespread and Undisclosed
Investigation catches 77 local TV stations presenting corporate PR as real news
Groups file complaint urging FCC to take action against deceptive broadcasters
WASHINGTON The Center for Media Democracy and Free Press today exposed an epidemic of fake news infiltrating local television broadcasts across country. At a press conference in Washington with FCC Commissioner Jonathan S. Adelstein, the groups called for a crackdown on stations that present corporate-sponsored videos as genuine news to an unsuspecting audience.
CMD, which unveiled the results of a 10-month investigation, found scores of local stations slipping commercial "video news releases," or VNRs, into their regular news programming. The new multimedia report released today includes footage of 36 separate VNRs and their broadcast as "news" by TV stations and networks nationwide, including those in the nation's biggest markets.
The full report -- "Fake TV News: Widespread and Undisclosed" -- is now available complete with VNR and TV station video footage at www.prwatch.org/fakenews/execsummary.
"It's shocking to see how product placement moves secretly unfiltered from the boardroom to the newsroom and then straight into our living rooms," said Diane Farsetta, a senior researcher at CMD and co-author of the report. "Local TV broadcasts -- the most popular news source in the United States -- frequently air VNRs without fact-checking, conducting their own reporting, or disclosing that the footage has been provided and sponsored by big corporations."
Investigators captured 77 television stations actively disguising sponsored content from companies including General Motors, Intel, Pfizer and Capital One to make it look like their own reporting. More than one-third of the time, stations aired fake news stories in their entirety as their own reporting.
Despite repeated claims from broadcasters that they do not air VNRs as news, the new report reveals just the tip of the iceberg. Instances of fake TV news documented by CMD likely represent less than 1 percent of VNRs distributed to local newsrooms since June 2005. Fraudulent news reports have likely been aired on hundreds of more local newscasts in the past year.
"The president of the Radio-Television News Directors Association, Barbara Cochran, called fake news 'kind of like the Loch Ness Monster. Everyone talks about it, but not many people have actually seen it,' " said John Stauber, executive director of CMD. "This report drops a big nest of squirming Nessies in the laps of TV journalists. Fake TV news is the worst plagiarism scandal in American journalism, and it must be stopped by labeling all VNRs on screen so viewers can tell if its news or fake news."
Approximately 80 percent of the stations snared in the investigation are owned by large conglomerates. The list of the worst offenders includes Clear Channel, News Corp./Fox Television, Viacom/CBS, Tribune Co. and Sinclair Broadcast Group - whose Oklahoma City affiliate was caught airing VNRs on six separate occasions.
"The evidence suggests a strong connection between media consolidation and the broadcast of deceptive, pre-packaged propaganda," said Timothy Karr, campaign director of Free Press. "When all station owners care about is profit margins, fake news can prove irresistible. After all, VNRs are free. Reporting news that's meaningful to local communities isn't. And without decisive government action, the fake news problem will only get worse."
In conjunction with the report, Free Press launched www.freepress.net/fakenews -- urging the public to contact the FCC and demand "No Fake News."
Free Press and CMD also filed a formal complaint with the FCC, seeking a thorough investigation "to help restore the public trust in the integrity of local news." The public interest groups want all VNRs be accompanied by a continuous, frame-by-frame visual notifications and verbal announcements disclosing their sources. They also recommended broadcasters be required to file monthly public reports detailing their use of government or corporate-sponsored material. The FCC complaint is available at www.freepress.net/docs/fcc_complaint_4-06-06.pdf
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The Center for Media and Democracy (www.prwatch.org) is a nonprofit, public interest organization that strengthens participatory democracy by investigating and exposing public relations spin and propaganda, and by promoting media literacy and citizen journalism.
Free Press (www.freepress.net) is a national, nonpartisan organization that seeks to increase informed public participation in media policy and to promote a more competitive and democratic media system.
http://www.prwatch.org/fakenews/release
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First post? There should be like 20 posts objecting, saying that your media is fine! What gives? I suppose now that someone other than you said it it's suddely more believable?  |
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Well I haven't posted because I'm in a state of shock.
I simply find it impossible to believe that I've been lied to in the media news.
Next thing I know they'll be telling me there's a darkie in the White House!  |
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Well I haven't posted because I'm in a state of shock.
I simply find it impossible to believe that I've been lied to in the media news.
Next thing I know they'll be telling me there's a darkie in the White House! |
LoL......shakes head, you just don't know how to act right to you 
Care to guess how long it will be before we see a Black Priminister of the UK, or God for bid Queen   |
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| First post? There should be like 20 posts objecting, saying that your media is fine! What gives? I suppose now that someone other than you said it it's suddely more believable? |
Yeah..........I don't get any respect |
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The silence is astounding!
It's a text book example of the self censorship that some engage in. Shakes head..............as if ignoring the truth makes it not so?  Like beasts being lead through the slaughter process they are oblivious. Completely secure in the idea that those whom purposely decieve them, have thier best interests in mind.
I have seen blue UN tent cities populated with starving deseased and wounded people numbering 400,000 strong. Infact we could smell it from 15 miles away. Hundreds of starving men unable to dig graves fast enough to keep up with the rate of deaths.
We have hundreds of tent cities popping up all over the nation, with people barely getting bye. Winter is coming, and it's predicted to be a damned cold one. The possibilty of desease breaking out will increase as the population of these tent cities continue to grow. If a breakout of somekind occurs the desease will spread like wildfire to the population of the near bye city.
People living outdoors urinate and deficate on the ground. Open sewage washed into the water table and street gutters will spread desease via multiple avenues.
These are the kind of issues being ignored by the media, as they blow smoke up our collective asses with fake News and other propaganda. I watch in total discust as the leadership of our nation ransacks our treasury right before the eye's of the oblivous American public.
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www.prwatch.org/fakenews/execsummary "Page Not Found", sorry. Might be the way it was typed or something. The site loaded but not that page. (They included a period at the end of the hyperlink; I found the page.)
The article's next link to freepress.net's site was good and I browsed their home page. I found this link pretty informative:
http://www.freepress.net/ownership/chart/main is sort of a "Who's Who" of Corporate Media. Helps explain why some news seems 'Disneyfied', et cetera.
"Banana Republicans: How the Right Wing is Turning America Into a One-Party State" ...nice book title, one of the publications available through them. Wow, those words really rang true, didn't they.  |
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| martiandrifter01 wrote: |
www.prwatch.org/fakenews/execsummary "Page Not Found", sorry. Might be the way it was typed or something. The site loaded but not that page. (They included a period at the end of the hyperlink; I found the page.)
The article's next link to freepress.net's site was good and I browsed their home page. I found this link pretty informative:
http://www.freepress.net/ownership/chart/main is sort of a "Who's Who" of Corporate Media. Helps explain why some news seems 'Disneyfied', et cetera.
"Banana Republicans: How the Right Wing is Turning America Into a One-Party State" ...nice book title, one of the publications available through them. Wow, those words really rang true, didn't they. |
Nice.............you post bullshit........shoot holes in it, and then attribute it to our wrong headed thinking. That's what is known as a red herring in the propaganda business.
But you really suck at it  |
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Yeah, well, you guys were begging for a reply. I edited it on the fly. Be happy, you got a reply. Got a good recipe for herring?
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hehehehehe ... thanks for posting that Nasaie ... fecking hilarious!!!
The amazing thing is ... is that there's people like G2 out there that believe that kind of **it as THE GOSPEL.  |
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LOL! Never seen that one.
Your media...
Told you! Your media doesn't lie, don't be silly. |
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Well, the only think I've validated about that video is that both of those guys did work for CNN and "reported" on the first gulf war.
I'm kinda waiting for those who believe all MSM to comment on it. |
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| Nesaie wrote: |
Well, the only think I've validated about that video is that both of those guys did work for CNN and "reported" on the first gulf war.
I'm kinda waiting for those who believe all MSM to comment on it. |
LoL........Not Gonna happen, wouldn't be prudent
If CNN = "Communist News Network", said it, it must be true
I saw a couple at the grocery store the other day. They both were about three hundred pounds or better, maybe closer to four hundred. Anyway they both climbed on to those little shopping cart scooters you see at the stores now days. Anyway I get to the soda isle and there they are in a heated argument. They were arguing over the benefits of one diet poison over the other diet poison. It sounded like a diet Pepsi commercial. When that was finally decided, then the argument began anew. Who was going to get thier fatass off of the cart to pickup the case of poison. I wish I had a camera with me to video the exchange. It was facinatingly discusting to see and hear, but I still can't say exactly why.
It took all my will power to keep my mouth shut. I wanted to say hey you two rolling tubbs of lard, do you own a freaking mirror ? Can't you see how much drinking that poison bye the gallon has benefitted you ?
I found it a textbook example of how completely disconnected from reality people have become. Coupled with how effective todays advertising has become. |
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