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    • FCC queries 77 stations, on 'fake news' story

      Posted by Billbar from Boston Herald

      The FCC sent 42 letters to 77 broadcast license-holders whose use of video news releases is in question following an April report on “fake TV news” by two media watchdog groups, the Center for Media Democracy in Wisconsin, and Free Press in Northampton. “The public is misled by individuals who present themselves to be independent unbiased experts or reporters, but are actually shills promoting a prepackaged corporate agenda,” FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein said in a statement.

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    • Iraq coverage drops dramatically

      Posted by Billbar from Los Angeles Times

      American television journalists covering Iraq confronted the difficult reality that it took the deaths of a cameraman and soundman and critical injuries to correspondent Kimberly Dozier to help push Iraq back to the forefront of the nightly news back home. By the end of April, the amount of time devoted to Iraq on the weeknight newscasts of the three major television networks had dropped nearly 60% from 2003.

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    • Bush 'planted fake news stories on American TV'

      Posted by Billbar from The Independent

      The range of VNR is wide. Among items provided by the Bush administration to news stations was one in which an Iraqi-American in Kansas City was seen saying "Thank you Bush. Thank you USA" in response to the 2003 fall of Baghdad. The footage was actually produced by the State Department, one of 20 federal agencies that have produced and distributed such items.

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      Plagiarize Me, Please!

      Posted by Billbar from firedoglake

      Nope, broadcasters love the free VNRs because then they can lay off the real live, professional journalists, and just hire monkeys to download the pre-packaged video releases, strip’em of disclaimers and present them as the station-produced news of the day. Oh, and pocket the spare change.

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    • FCC's Martin Orders Probe of TV Stations That Air Ads as News

      Posted by Billbar from Bloomberg

      "If the investigation leads to significant fines, the FCC could cause stations to put disclosures in place that make clearer the corporate role in local news,'' said analyst Blair Levin of Stifel Nicolaus & Co. in Washington." It depends how hard Martin wants to push it.'' A Sinclair-owned station in Oklahoma City, for example, aired five video releases exactly as prepared by their corporate publicist as if they were news reports.

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      Fox, BBC, Al Jazeera most trusted: poll

      Posted by Billbar from Yahoo News!

      Asked to name the news source they most trusted, without any prompting, 59 percent of Egyptians said Al Jazeera, 52 percent of Brazilians said Rede Globo, 32 percent of Britons said the BBC, 22 percent of Germans said ARD and 11 percent of Americans said Fox News, each leading their respective nations.

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