Sign the Petition to Fight "Fake News"The Center for Media and Democracy
by John Stauber
The Center for Media and Democracy and Free Press have filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission urging an investigation of the extensive airing of "fake news" by TV broadcasters who take government and corporate Video News Release (VNR) stories and run them unlabeled as real journalism. In just one week nearly 40,000 citizens have signed the petition calling on the FCC, Congress and local broadcasters to stop fake news.
The petition seeks to strengthen and enforce laws against government propaganda and demands "that the Bush administration stop using our tax dollars to create fake news reports." The Center and Free Press hope to gather a quarter million signatures and begin organizing citizens locally to meet with stations in their community to sign agreements to stop airing all VNRs unless they are clearly labeled and not pawned off as news.
Revelations over the past year have finally moved this issue into public consciousness. This is a corruption now deeply embedded in TV media and corporate and government propaganda practices. Fake news has been produced and aired covertly for decades, and is now a business involving billions of dollars for broadcasters, PR firms and their clients.
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