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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedVirtual news reports: CNN and local TV stations were guilty accomplices in allowing a government-produced VNR on the air.(Broadcast Views)
American Journalism Review, June, 2004 by Potter, Deborah
Poor Karen Ryan. She was only doing her job. Poor CNN. It was just an innocent distributor. Poor local TV stations. They were deceived by everyone involved. And needless to say, none of them was to blame.
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The truth is, there's plenty of blame to go around in the aftermath of the Medicare video news release (VNR) flap. Journalism groups slammed the Bush administration for "deceptive practices" after the disclosure in March that the Department of Health and Human Services had released a taxpayer-funded VNR--made to resemble a news report--touting ...
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