Fake News: Tell the FCC You Demand a Searchable Public Database
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Posted by Guest Blogger December 22nd, 2011 |
By Guest Blogger Libby Reinish
A media watchdog sent us this video of Wisconsin station WLUK passing off an AT&T advertisement as news:
It sounds crazy, but passing an infomercial off as a news story is legal as long as stations disclose the paid pieces at the end of the program.
But a lot of stations don’t even manage that: […]