Video News Releases

Tampa Testimony Against Media Consolidation, for Media "Convergence"

by Diane Farsetta — May 3, 2007 - 3:27pm

On April 30, "the Federal Communications Commission was in Tampa to hear from opponents and advocates of media consolidation," reports Pat Walters. "Since June, the FCC has been reviewing several planned changes to the rules governing media ownership.

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Poynter Online, May 1, 2007

An Academic Look at Fake TV News

by Diane Farsetta — April 2, 2007 - 1:24pm

In his paper "Loath to admit: Pressures on ethical disclosure of news release sources," Australian academic Peter Simmons analyzes issues around video news releases (VNRs), or fake TV news.

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Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, October 2006

Local TV Tales: Pro-Sweatshop Fake News and Paid Smokespeople

by Diane Farsetta — March 19, 2007 - 12:07pm

After federal authorities accused Francesco Insolia "of running a sweatshop to fulfill $220 million in military contracts and employing 361 illegal immigrants," he closed his New Bedford, MA, factory to reporters. In an affidavit filed in conjunction with an immigration raid on the factory, U.S.

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South Coast Today (Massachusetts), March 17, 2007

Moore Spin: Or, How Reporters Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Nuclear Front Groups

by Diane Farsetta — March 14, 2007 - 8:52am
  • Topics: Activism, Front Groups, Nuclear Power, Video News Releases, Public Relations

    • "We just find it maddening that Hill & Knowlton, which has an $8 million account with the nuclear industry, should have such an easy time working the press," concluded the Columbia Journalism Review in an editorial in its July / August 2006 issue.

    Raising the VNR Issue at Tomorrow's House FCC Oversight Hearing

    by Diane Farsetta — March 13, 2007 - 1:30pm
  • Topics: Video News Releases, U.S. Congress, Fake TV News, Media

    • The Center for Media and Democracy and Free Press today issued the following letter to members of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.

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