Friday, August 18, 2006

I thought all news was fake

FCC says its going to investigate the use of packaged "news" stories created by third parties, pushing an agenda made to look like actual news stories put together by local affiliates. These are introduced by the anchor and no indication is given that viewers are watching what is essentially a commercial.

Personally I hope the FCC bans them, but we'll see. Maybe that new "indecency" fine can be put to good use.

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