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	AlterNet: MediaCulture: Fake News Is No Joke
		Concealed ads posing as news is bad; even worse is the daily drivel that passes for 'real' news.
		And it seems to me that the wide-spread proliferation of the fake news and the no-news news might be the natural part of the corporatization process and the communications evolution.
		In the process these new formats are removing the news control from the hands of a few networks and putting them in the hands of the people.
	www.alternet.org /mediaculture/34823 (4463 words)

	Still Not the News: Stations Overwhelmingly Fail to Disclose VNRs \| Center for Media and Democracy
		The report, "Fake TV News: Widespread and Undisclosed," named 77 TV stations that aired at least one of 36 VNRs tracked over a ten-month period.
		Knowing that previous public scrutiny had resulted in little change in the production or use of VNRs (see "The Professional Opposition" section of "Fake TV News: Recommendations"), CMD sought to determine whether the broadcast PR firms that create VNRs and/or the TV newsrooms that air them were changing their practices.
		The results are especially interesting, in light of a coordinated industry attack on CMD's initial report and allegations that the report and resulting FCC investigation have had "a chilling effect" on TV newsrooms.
	www.stopfakenews.org (1380 words)

	Frank Rich \| When the Real News Debunks Fake News
		Even now, we know that the fake news generated by the six known shills is only a small piece of the administration's overall propaganda effort.
		When the Bush administration isn't using taxpayers' money to buy its own fake news, it does everything it can to shut out and pillory real reporters who might tell Americans what is happening in what is, at least in theory, their own government.
		Conservatives, who supposedly deplore postmodernism, are now welcoming in a brave new world in which it's a given that there can be no empirical reality in news, only the reality you want to hear (or they want you to hear).
	www.truthout.org /cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/37/9095 (1129 words)

	"White House News Forgeries Widespread"
		Some news organizations, for example, simply identify the government's "reporter" as one of their own and then edit out any phrase suggesting the segment was not of their making.
		In essence, video news releases seek to exploit a growing vulnerability of television news: Even as news staffs at the major networks are shrinking, many local stations are expanding their hours of news coverage without adding reporters.
		In the end, she said, the jump to video news releases from journalism was not as far as one might expect.
	www.truthout.org /cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/37/9592 (5150 words)

	The Raw Story \| 77 TV stations aired 'fake news reports'
		Center for Media and Democracy's Fake TV News: Widespread and Undisclosed is "a multimedia report on television newsrooms' use of material provided by PR firms on behalf of paying clients," containing video footage of the 36 video news releases (VNRs) cited in the report, plus a map and spreadsheet of the stations cited.
		News broadcasts based on a General Motors VNR stand out in the report as a striking example of "fake news," not just because they were left largely unchanged when aired on stations in Louisiana and Pennsylvania.
		Last year the New York Times published an article called "Under Bush, a new age of prepackaged TV news" - written by David Barstow and Robin Stein - which reported on the stealthy use of VNRs created by government agencies that crept into network news broadcasts.
	www.rawstory.com /news/2006/77_TV_stations_aired_fake_news_0405.html (610 words)

	Wired News: Fake CNN Website Taken Offline
		A website that published fake news stories from CNN has been taken offline after receiving a threatening legal letter from the cable network alleging copyright and trademark infringement.
		The Fake CNN News Generator was online only a week, but generated a lot of controversy after ersatz news stories were picked up by local outlets and reported as real.
		Fake stories were generated the site's visitors, who filled out a form with the story's headline and text.
	www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,57506,00.html (937 words)

	US government faked Bush news reports \| US elections 2004 \| Guardian Unlimited
		TV news reports in America that showed President George Bush getting a standing ovation from potential voters have been exposed as fake, it has emerged.
		The US government admitted it paid actors to pose as journalists in video news releases sent to TV stations intending to convey support for new laws about health benefits.
		Investigators are examining the film segments, in which actors pretending to be journalists praise the benefits of the new law passed last year by President Bush, to see if they could be construed as propaganda.
	www.guardian.co.uk /uselections2004/story/0,13918,1170535,00.html (516 words)

	Media Matters - "Media Matters," week ending January 28, 2005
		The growing scandal surrounding conservatives' use of fake "news" reports, secret government propaganda, and payola to conservative commentators continued to accelerate this week.
		Fake news, part 4: Hannity admitted he should have disclosed ties to organization he praised
		Talon News, a conservative company whose Washington bureau chief and White House correspondent Jeff Gannon is well-known for asking loaded pro-Republican questions at White House press briefings, appears to be more a political organization than a media outlet.
	mediamatters.org /items/200501280011 (2663 words)

	Fake News Fights Back
		Although the fake news forces are strong, there’s a real opportunity now to finally end the cycle of VNR exposé, followed by industry promises, followed by attention shifting elsewhere, followed by a return to the status quo.
		Whether they succeed – and the fake news cycle continues – or real disclosure is required depends initially on the outcome of FCC investigation.
		I doubt that much new “news” will enter the brains of the general public through their control boxes… they will have to find a new way to sell lip gloss and fear.
	www.gnn.tv /articles/2342/Fake_News_Fights_Back (2037 words)

	Fake news - SourceWatch
		The term fake news has become synonymous with government and corporate sponsored pre-packaged news provided as video news releases (VNRs) and audio news releases (ANRs) to news outlets.
		"Fake TV News: Widespread and Undisclosed" is the title of a report released on April 6, 2006, by the Center for Media and Democracy.
		However it was a cover article by David Lieberman titled "Fake News" in a February 1992 edition of TV Guide that popularised the term.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Fake_news (1215 words)

	Screened Audiences, Fake News Promote Bush Agenda
		But the president is not ready to handle genuine dialogue on the subject or deal with those opposed to his plan to partially privatize the government pension program.
		The New York Times on March 13 published an in-depth report on how the administration is cranking up its public relations campaign to manipulate broadcast news by distributing pre-packaged videos prepared by several federal agencies, including the Pentagon.
		The memo contended that the GAO did not distinguish between propaganda and "purely informational" news reports and claimed there was no requirement for a federal agency to label its disguised broadcasts.
	www.commondreams.org /views05/0401-31.htm (837 words)

	News Corpse » The Real Fake News Blog
		The evidence that The Daily Show is educating or enhancing the education of its viewers is borne out by the fact that viewers are choosing it as a source for news.
		With news fabricators like Steven Glass (New Republic), Jack Kelley (USA Today) and Jayson Blair (New York Times), representing only the fraternity of those who were caught, the mainstream media’s credibility is in freefall.
		I haven’t trusted traditional news sources since the NYT reported after the first presidential debate that there was, pretty much, a debate.
	www.newscorpse.com /ncWP/index.php?p=26 (2717 words)

	Free Press : No Fake News
		Tens of thousands of Americans have already sent letters to the FCC demanding that the agency investigate the abuse and penalize all stations that air fake news without disclosure.
		By disguising advertisements as news, stations violate both the spirit and the letter of their broadcasting licenses, which obligate them to use the public airwaves to serve the public.
		VNRs 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.
	www.freepress.net /fakenews (590 words)

	Free Press : Stop News Fraud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The White House is infiltrating local news broadcasts with taxpayer-funded covert propaganda.
		At least 20 federal agencies have produced and distributed fake news stories touting Bush administration policies.
		We, the undersigned, demand that the Bush administration stop using our tax dollars to create fake news reports, and ask local broadcasters to clearly disclose all government propaganda.
	www.freepress.net /action/fakenews (442 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: White House slammed for creating fake news
		In the second ruling of its kind, the investigative arm of Congress this week scolded the Bush administration for distributing phony, prepackaged news reports that include a "suggested live intro" for anchors to read, interviews with Washington officials and a closing that mimics a typical broadcast news sign-off.
		In another, the announcer appears to be "reporting" on a news conference by drug-control officials, when "in reality they are just paid to say a script," Poling said.
		At least 300 news shows used some portion of the materials, although it was impossible to determine how many aired the full, prepackaged story or only portions such as "sound bites," Riley said.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002145427_fakenews08.html (665 words)

	Surveying the Fake News Scene \| Center for Media and Democracy
		Of course, fake news is not a new issue.
		An interesting and apt comparison is the survey that the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) conducted to determine how their members use VNRs.
		Based on our survey and conversations with journalists, scholars, activists and concerned citizens, we think stopping fake news is a winnable fight.
	www.prwatch.org /node/3845 (1190 words)

	USATODAY.com - Turn off fake news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It was all happy news — nothing about the bill's expense or the controversy over the pharmaceutical industry's role in getting it passed.
		She was imitating a reporter for federal agencies preparing fake news broadcasts.
		In video news releases, the administration gets to sell voters on its Medicare benefit, its policy in Iraq and the No Child Left Behind education law without the annoying objectivity a real reporter might bring to the subject.
	www.usatoday.com /news/opinion/editorials/2005-03-17-fake-news_x.htm (481 words)

	Fake News \| NewsBusters.org
		Media types are trying to understand why their carefully crafted agenda journalism, and fake and staged news, are not having the desired effect among the lumpen proletariat.
		Armored vehicles that were given to foreign news agencies operating in the country with the authorization of the State of Israel, may be used by hostile groups to carry out terror attacks against Israel, Director of the Government Press Office Danny Seaman warned in a letter addressed to Shin Bet Head Yuval Diskin.
		Elsewhere on the fake Middle Eastern news front, the Second Draft has two must-see videos (HT: Instapundit) that look at a famous "news" item from 2000 in which a young Palestinian boy is reportedly shot by Israeli soldiers while crouching behind a barrel.
	newsbusters.org /taxonomy/term/546 (4779 words)

	IGotNewsForYou: Fake Funny News Writing Contest!
		Write a fake funny news bit for our contest and you could win some smashing prizes.
		Funny, satirical fake news stories between 100-150 words, written in such a way that they can be personalized.
		But the key is that we're writing fake news where you're the star (or anyone could be).
	www.igotnewsforyou.com /contest.asp (392 words)

	On the Media - March 18, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The hundreds of government-produced fake news packages are part of a $254 million P.R. effort by the Bush Administration.
		But that money would be going straight down the drain were it not for the many local affiliates willing to air the spots in their newscasts.
		A new study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism finds that only a quarter of the stories on cable news channels contain two or more identifiable sources.
	www.onthemedia.org /otm031805.html (1251 words)

	Michelle Pilecki: Fake 'News' Still Being Broadcast - Media on The Huffington Post
		Back in April I wrote about how dozens of local TV stations unblushingly ran video press releases as "news," were unmasked by the Center for Democracy and Media in a report, Fake TV News: Widespread and Undisclosed, and how the FCC was going to crack down on the practice.
		The stations, whose owners include News Corp.'s Fox unit, Tribune Co. and Sinclair Broadcasting Group Inc., may face fines for violating an FCC warning to identify the sources of the segments.
		Clearly, the embarrassment of informing viewers they are merely transmitting corporate propaganda in lieu of real news is leading many to actually eliminate disclosure supplied by the VNR producer.
	www.huffingtonpost.com /nellie-b/fake-news-still-being-b_b_34193.html (597 words)

	Free Press : War on the Press
		The Bush administration mounted a widespread effort to produce “video news releases,” or VNRs, which are broadcast as real news to millions of unsuspecting Americans.
		Objectionable activities include a video news release where PR flack Karen Ryan gives the Bush tutoring program “an A-plus”; and commissioned newspaper articles that praised the Education Department’s role in promoting “science literacy.” Readers were never informed of the government’s role in placing the article, which appeared in numerous newspapers around the country.
		Urge the FCC and Congress to investigate fake news
	www.freepress.net /presswar/=manufacture (382 words)

	No Fake News! \| Center for Media and Democracy
		On April 6, 2006, the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) released a multi-media report titled, "Fake TV News: Widespread and Undisclosed." It provides the most extensive account to date of how corporate-funded video news releases (VNRs) -- fake TV news -- are routinely aired by newsrooms, without disclosure, as though they were independently-gathered reports.
		Ask the FCC to clarify and strengthen its disclosure requirements for fake news, and penalize TV stations that break the rules, by clicking here.
		CMD's award-winning publication PR Watch focused on fake news in its Second Quarter 2005 issue.
	www.prwatch.org /nofakenews (818 words)

	Democracy Now! \| Fake TV News: Widespread and Undisclosed... How Corporate-Funded Propaganda Is Airing On Local ...
		A new study being released today by the Center for Media and Democracy reveals that at least 77 TV stations around the country have been caught airing corporate-sponsored propaganda disguised as news news releases in the past 10 months.
		That video news release is one of the 36 VNRs highlighted in the new study by the Center for Media and Democracy called Fake TV News.
		This new study from the Center for Media and Democracy criticized the interview, because viewers were never informed that you were being funded by the makers of the very products you were praising.
	www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=06/04/06/1432239 (7408 words)

	TheExperiment \| Articles => FCC Investigates Fake News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Some of the fake news segments talked up success in the war in Iraq, or promoted the companies' products.
		Bloomberg news service said that other companies that sponsored the promotions included General Motors, the world's largest car maker, and Intel, the biggest maker of semi-conductors.
		Slums and poverty are emerging as new points of interest for tourists.
	www.theexperiment.org /articles.php?news_id=2177 (823 words)

	Life in the Third Layer: Fake News
		If you think you have been watching the fake news on The Daily Show, read this report:
		Fake TV News: Widespread and Undisclosed by Diane Farsetta and Daniel Price, Center for Media and Democracy.
		In this report they offer videos of 36 "video news releases," the term for advertising that is conveyed to the consumer as "news." There is also a map showing where the 77 TV stations that aired the fake news are located.
	www.thirdlayer.org /archives/000194.html (238 words)

	Media Manipulation - Global Issues
		The problem arises where these reports are either presented as factual news by journalists, or have been rebroadcast by news stations without revealing that the segment is from an organization or the government, thus giving it the appearance of genuine news.
		The UK is awash with fake news, of which the examples here are only a taste, it is just that we donât pay much attention to it.
		Television is the number one source of so-called news for most Americans, and a huge proportion of that is fake news.
	www.globalissues.org /HumanRights/Media/Manipulation.asp (4112 words)

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