Fake TV News

Robin Raskin Puts Fake News in Perspective

by Diane Farsetta — March 19, 2008 - 2:58pm

Robin RaskinIn his new book True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society, Farhad Manjoo covers video news releases (VNRs) by looking at "VNR

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Salon.com, March 19, 2008

Duby-ous in Connecticut

by Diane Farsetta — January 24, 2008 - 11:40am

Image from the PR videoA sponsored public relations video airing on cable stations in five Connecticut towns is drawing scrutiny.

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New Haven Advocate (Connecticut), January 24, 2008

News Director Sickened by Proposed Hospital Agreement

by Diane Farsetta — January 15, 2008 - 1:36pm

"I could not with a clear conscience go into that newsroom and tell the staff that this was a good thing," explained former WEAU-13 news director Glen Mabie. Mabie resigned from the northwest Wisconsin television station "because of a disagreement ...

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Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, Wisconsin), January 15, 2008

Columbus Discovers Local Fake News

by Diane Farsetta — December 6, 2007 - 4:54pm

Emmy award-winning television reporter Andrea Cambern "might be the most trusted news anchor in Columbus," Ohio, writes Steph Greegor. "So she's believable when she appears in reports reinforcing the notion that the Ohio State University Medical Center is a fine facility. What those clips don't mention is that Ohio State paid Channel 10 for them. ...

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The Other Paper (Columbus, Ohio), November 29, 2007

That's Infotainment!

by Diane Farsetta — December 4, 2007 - 10:38am

"Product placement is hardly a new phenomenon, and the morning [U.S. television] shows long ago mastered the quid pro quo of daily television: Actors give interviews timed to their latest projects; authors are recruited as experts just as their books hit the stores," writes Alessandra Stanley. "But the fourth hour of 'Today' has tipped the balance of the program. ...

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New York Times, December 4, 2007

Fake Press Conferences Aren't Just for FEMA

by Diane Farsetta — November 27, 2007 - 5:30pm

When the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) held a fake news conference in October, with FEMA staffers asking their boss softball questions about the California wildfires, Homeland Security Department Secretary Michael Chertoff strongly condemned

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Associated Press, November 26, 2007
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