On Thursday the Center for Media and Democracy released a new multi-media report, “Fake TV News: Widespread and Undisclosed,” on how corporate-funded video news releases — fake TV news — are routinely aired, without disclosure, as though they were independent news reports. The report includes 36 video news releases, a map of all the VNR stations exposed by the CMD report, and a spreadsheet listing the 77 television stations that aired this fake news, by state.
According to feature article/interview on alternet by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, the stations implicated are scattered throughout 30 states and are affiliated with all of the major networks: ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox. And many of the stations are owned by some of the country’s largest media companies, including Clear Channel, News Corp, Viacom, the Tribune Co. and Sinclair Broadcast.
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