At least with The Daily Show fake news is funny. Not so with “Video News Releases” (NVR), which are bogus news packages created by PR companies that run during regular news programs as if they are legitimate news. This has been a growing phenomena that needs curbing. Click below for more:
Local Television’s Dirty Little Secret
For the second time this year, Free Press and the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) have revealed that corporate propaganda continues to infiltrate local television news across the country.
Stations are slipping corporate-sponsored “video news releases†— promotional segments designed to look like objective news reports — into their regular news programming. This deception is illegal under FCC rules.
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