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"Report Faults Video Reports Shown as News"
12 Apr 2006 01:33:30 -0400 rec.arts.tv
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April 6, 2006
Report Faults Video Reports Shown as News By DAVID BARSTOW Many television news stations, including some from the nation's largest markets, are continuing to broadcast reports as news without disclosing that the segments were produced by corporations pitching new products, according to a report to be released today by a group that monitors the news media. Rich...
Television news directors have said that the segments, known as video news releases, are almost never broadcast, but the group assembled television videotape from 69 stations that it said had broadcast fake news segments in the past 10 months. The article says that last summer the president of the Radio-Television News Directors Association compared the use of video news releases to the Loch Ness monster: "Everyone talks about it, but not many people have actually seen it." The punch line: The center presented its findings yesterday to F.C.C. officials, including Jonathan S. Adelstein, a commissioner who has criticized video news releases. In an interview, Mr. Adelstein called the cases in the report a "disgrace to American journalism" and evidence of "potentially major violations" of F.C.C. rules. "I'm stunned by the scope of what they found," he said. "I guess they found the Loch Ness monster." The group that issued the report is the Center for Media and should be happy that there's only one Massachusetts incident there. Ken from Chicago...
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