Submitted: November 14, 2006 - 10:46am
Last updated: February 21, 2008 - 4:41am
Last updated: February 21, 2008 - 4:41am
GROUPS CLAIM MORE UNIDENTIFIED VNRs
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
Free Press and the Center For Media & Democracy say they have found 46 more stations airing unidentified video news releases. The groups last spring released a much-publicized accounting of 77 stations they identified as airing unidentified corporate video news releases -- it prompted the FCC to gather info from the targeted stations.
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6390599.html?title=Article&spacedesc=news
See "Still Not the News"
http://www.prwatch.org/fakenews2/execsummary
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