Television news directors have said that the segments, known as video news releases, are almost never broadcast, but the group assembled television videotape from 69 stations that it said had broadcast fake news segments in the past 10 months.
The report said none of the stations had disclosed that the segments were produced by publicists representing companies like General Motors, Capital One and Pfizer.
The center also said that many of the 69 stations took steps to blend the fake segments into their news broadcasts. Some had their news reporters or anchors read scripts supplied by corporations, the report said, and many had altered screen graphics to include the station's logo.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/06/business/media/06video.html?ex=1301976000&en=476d1aff538533c1&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
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as U.S. news and U.S. slants, serving the U.S. convergence
between media and warmongering.
Canada should become fully aware of how dangerous the U.S.
slant is. We can see an unpopular man fraudulently re-elected as
their president, doing unpopular deeds within the U.S.A. and
abroad, as if the U.S. public's hands are tied. Well, they are tied.
A free press in the U.S. is free only for those who own one.
But going back much further, was it Bismarck who said "What you read in the newspapers, may also be true."?
Thanks to the Internet (and Vive!!) we do not have to listen and watch the "media".
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" THREE BIG LIES ABOUT AFGHANISTAN "<br />
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<a href="http://www.ericmargolis.com">http://www.ericmargolis.com</a> (click on archives).<br />
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Frank<br />