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| | Video news releases - SourceWatch |
 | | Video news releases (VNRs, often referred to as fake TV news) are video clips that are indistinguishable from traditional news clips and are sometimes screened unedited by television stations without the identification of the original producers or sponsors, who are commonly corporations, government agencies, or non-governmental organizations. |
 | | Fake TV News: Widespread and Undisclosed (http://www.prwatch.org/fakenews/execsummary) is the title of a report released April 6, 2006, by the Center for Media and Democracy. |
 | | From 1998 to 2002, a study of 33,911 television reports found, the percentage of 'feed' material from third-party sources rose to 23 percent of all reports from 14 percent. |
| www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Video_news_releases (2700 words) |
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