Tag: vnr’s
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FCC Fines Comcast For Airing Fake News
from raw story: Cable giant Comcast violated the law by broadcasting video news releases without identifying them as sponsored programming, the Federal Communications Commission announced today. The ruling came in response to a complaint from Free Press and the Center for Media and Democracy, a media watchdog group focusing on VNRs. “In this Notice of…
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news on the march
townhall: ron paul will place 2nd in iowafrom usa today: Patrick Ruffini makes the case this morning at the conservative Townhall blog that Republican Rep. Ron Paul will place second at the Iowa GOP’s “straw poll” Aug. 11 in Ames… Hugh Hewitt, also writing this morning at the blog, thinks Ruffini may be over-thinking things.…
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abc honored for ‘misleading’ 9/11 series
from upi: ABC received a “Falsie” award for its Sept. 11 miniseries that the Center for Media and Democracy chided as the most misleading U.S. show of the year. The organization – described by as a “left-leaning watchdog group” by Daily Variety – chided ABC’s “Path to 9/11” as “an opportunity to rewrite history” launched…