FCC Investigates Fake News

May 31, 2006 by Marc Lamont Hill

Federal authorities are actively investigating dozens of American television stations for broadcasting items produced by the Bush administration and major corporations, and passing them off as normal news. Some of the fake news segments talked up success in the war in Iraq, or promoted the companies’ products.

Investigators from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) are seeking information about stations across the country after a report produced by a campaign group detailed the extraordinary extent of the use of such items.

The report, by the non-profit group Center for Media and Democracy, found that over a 10-month period at least 77 television stations were making use of the faux news broadcasts, known as Video News Releases (VNRs). Not one told viewers who had produced the items.

For the rest of the story, go to: http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/36878

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2 Comments

1. omodiende wrote:

next is something cooked up to install Martial Law and Bush holding power for another few years

May 31, 2006 @ 12:24 pm

2. expect percieve roll - that is all that chair is capable of wrote:

Your website is wonderfull. I’ll come visit again. mistery will soldier unconditionally

February 27, 2007 @ 9:48 am

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