April 10, 2006

Let’s Hope That Unlabeled, Agenda-Driven, Pre-Packaged “News” Doesn’t Spread

Filed under: Business Moves, Consumer Outrage, MSM Biz/Other Ignorance, TWUQs — TBlumer @ 9:46 am

The Cincinnati Beacon Reports on Cincinnati’s Channel 9 Pre-Packaged “News” Stories

This is fundamentally dishonest, and really weak:

Local news station WCPO has joined the ranks of television news centers broadcasting commercial advertisements and masking them as original news reports. This is particularly troublesome, as these corporate produced videos are designed to mimic legitimate news reports.

They’ve done it twice already.

Remember this the next time some antique media outlet beats up on blogs and forums for lack of transparency.

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