Bush 'planted fake news stories on American TV'

[Savonarola]

Bush 'planted fake news stories on American TV'
By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
Published: 29 May 2006

Federal authorities are actively investigating dozens of American television stations for broadcasting items produced by the Bush administration and major corporations, and passing them off as normal news. Some of the fake news segments talked up success in the war in Iraq, or promoted the companies' products.

Investigators from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) are seeking information about stations across the country after a report produced by a campaign group detailed the extraordinary extent of the use of such items.

The report, by the non-profit group Centre for Media and Democracy, found that over a 10-month period at least 77 television stations were making use of the faux news broadcasts, known as Video News Releases (VNRs). Not one told viewers who had produced the items.

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[Barbara Fitzpatrick]

The term for that is "propaganda" and is supposed to be only the venue of dictators, whose regimes are too corrupt to withstand the scrutiny of a "free press". If the shoe fits... I contend well will not have a (relatively) free country again until we regain a free press. Any ideas on how to achieve that?

[Dardedar]

And check out how they are going after Gore:

"Gore believed in global warming
almost as much as Hitler believed
there was something wrong with Jews."
-- Bush voting Meteorologist Bill Gray,

[Barbara Fitzpatrick]

The term is "projection" for accusing someone else of what you are doing. This administration and its followers have what I hope is a terminal case of projection.