From this online Reuters article:
President Bush said on Wednesday the U.S. government's practice of sending packaged news stories to local television stations was legal and he had no plans to stop it.
Does this even require a comment from me?
UPDATE: Sure it does. From this online piece:
The White House, intent on continuing to crank out "video news releases" that look like television news stories, has told government agency heads to ignore a Government Accountability Office memo criticizing the practice as illegal propaganda.
Shorter White House: "So it's illegal. And your point is ... ?"
1 comment:
The issue isn't - or at least shouldn't be - that fake news stories are sent to news outlets, but that news outlets run fake stories as news.
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