Thursday, April 06, 2006
SWOP homepageKASA Channel 2 News Busted Using "Fake News"
Center for Media and Democracy's new report on Fake News named ABQ's KASA Fox News as a station that uses Video News Releases (VNR), or Fake News. According to the report, VNR's "are video clips that are indistinguishable from traditional news clips and are sometimes screened unedited by television stations without the identification of the original producers or sponsors, who are commonly corporations, government agencies, or non-governmental organizations."
Intel, also with ties to the area, was named as a client of one of the companies that supplied the Fake News Outlets with the VNRs. See the footage from an Oklahoma TV station.
