Thanks for your thoughts, John. A couple of things, though.
First, I am very proud of what I do for my clients as a paid advocate and have never tried to hide my identity or misrepresent our services to the news media. I have never produced a VNR that contained anything but the truth.
Second, we don't have any government clients. We once did some VNRs on stamps that raise public awareness of adoption, Cesar Chavez and diabetes for the postal service.
Third, it's interesting you bring up the Internet. In about a month we will be launching a site that offers all our content to all media, broadcast, print or web anywhere in the world 24/7/365. You can even log in and download if you'd like. Thanks for the offer, but we can handle the technical here. BTW, I didn't know you could read minds! You know "I won't take up the challenge"???
John, since we're on the topic of "fake news", maybe you can explain how almost 10 years ago, with no formal medical or scientific training, you could convince the major news media you're a mad cow "expert" and predict in subsequent interviews a mad cow epidemic that never happened? That sounds a lot more like fake news to me.
Kevin, you are so proud of your biased, slanted "news" stories paid for by your corporate and government clients who are featured in them, why not share them with the world? I hereby challenge you to make them all public by posting them online for all to see as they are produced and distributed, as we did with the VNRs we captured. Then, since you monitor for your clients exactly where this fake news aired, you shuold also post online information about which stations aired them, when and where. This is the age of the internet Kevin, and this sort of transparency would be wonderful! All the great information in your VNRs would reach an even wider audience. Let me know if you need any technical help in doing this. However, I know that you won't take up this challenge because you would be doing just what we've done, exposing how much of TV news is really just the disguised and plagiarized airings of PR videos.
Other than producing VNRs on the Cesar Chavez and Adoption Awareness stamps for the US Postal Service, no, KEF Media hasn't received any "govt money". The previous comment touches on the point I made in my C&B op-ed. TV news is no longer straight forward journalism and hasn't been for some time. It's infotainment. Sorry, that's just "the way it is", in the words of Walter Cronkite.
I couldn't agree more- what's wrong with a little canned spam. Tastes good, and we all love it.
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But I think when we're talking these fake news stories, it's an even bigger scandal, and here's why. Most Americans get most of their news, unfortunately, from television. We know that TV is the worst source to receive news. For instance, back in the first Gulf War, the Hill & Nolten P.R. firm produced 20, at least, video news releases promoting the war. No one has gotten a hold of those to examine them. A reporter from The Progressive investigated this afterwards, and the P.R. firm refused to turn them over. We also know from the University of Amherst study back then, and there have been other studies that have corroborated this with other situations since, that the American public, who watched the most TV coverage of that Gulf War, thought they knew the most, actually knew less than most people who were getting their news through newspapers, for instance, and yet were the strongest supporters of the war. So, the bottom line here is that if you are watching war on television, with all of the propaganda and video news releases that go along with it, you are actually being misinformed, and yet you're more likely to support the war. Television is the number one source of so-called news for most Americans, and a huge proportion of that is fake news.
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KEF Media happen to recieve some of the recent govt money for some PR work, by chance? Just curious.
Repackaged promos for various junk, be it makeup, drugs, or whatever, is just child's play. Evidence that the so called news outlets are more interested in money than journalistic integrity, and that they couldn't care less about their viewers. The fact that any of the VNRs would even pass as news, edited and repackaged or not, says volumes about what's considered news, doesn't it?
But then we get into the propaganda pieces put out by govt... pretty disgusting. Even more so when so called news outlets go along with the lies. And to think it's been going on for years... who needs a state run station when all the major outlets are doing your bidding? Liberal news media, conservative news media... what a joke.
BTW, I hold to the "Synthetically Produced Artificial Meat" definition for the acronym, at the least, in it's application to mainstream news. There's nothing real about it.
Foley also noted in the op-ed that a first stage cervical cancer patient who sees a story on her local news that's based on a VNR and learns of a new treatment option for the disease has clearly benefited.
Mimyx is a prescription medicine, so patients receiving the treatment would also get all of the safety and contraindication information they need from their doctors and/or pharamcists. Again, someone suffering from painful eczema who is not familiar with treatment options may well have benefited by seeing the WYTV-33 story.
Thanks for your thoughts, John. A couple of things, though.
First, I am very proud of what I do for my clients as a paid advocate and have never tried to hide my identity or misrepresent our services to the news media. I have never produced a VNR that contained anything but the truth.
Second, we don't have any government clients. We once did some VNRs on stamps that raise public awareness of adoption, Cesar Chavez and diabetes for the postal service.
Third, it's interesting you bring up the Internet. In about a month we will be launching a site that offers all our content to all media, broadcast, print or web anywhere in the world 24/7/365. You can even log in and download if you'd like. Thanks for the offer, but we can handle the technical here. BTW, I didn't know you could read minds! You know "I won't take up the challenge"???
John, since we're on the topic of "fake news", maybe you can explain how almost 10 years ago, with no formal medical or scientific training, you could convince the major news media you're a mad cow "expert" and predict in subsequent interviews a mad cow epidemic that never happened? That sounds a lot more like fake news to me.
Kevin, you are so proud of your biased, slanted "news" stories paid for by your corporate and government clients who are featured in them, why not share them with the world? I hereby challenge you to make them all public by posting them online for all to see as they are produced and distributed, as we did with the VNRs we captured. Then, since you monitor for your clients exactly where this fake news aired, you shuold also post online information about which stations aired them, when and where. This is the age of the internet Kevin, and this sort of transparency would be wonderful! All the great information in your VNRs would reach an even wider audience. Let me know if you need any technical help in doing this. However, I know that you won't take up this challenge because you would be doing just what we've done, exposing how much of TV news is really just the disguised and plagiarized airings of PR videos.
Other than producing VNRs on the Cesar Chavez and Adoption Awareness stamps for the US Postal Service, no, KEF Media hasn't received any "govt money". The previous comment touches on the point I made in my C&B op-ed. TV news is no longer straight forward journalism and hasn't been for some time. It's infotainment. Sorry, that's just "the way it is", in the words of Walter Cronkite.
I couldn't agree more- what's wrong with a little canned spam. Tastes good, and we all love it.
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But I think when we're talking these fake news stories, it's an even bigger scandal, and here's why. Most Americans get most of their news, unfortunately, from television. We know that TV is the worst source to receive news. For instance, back in the first Gulf War, the Hill & Nolten P.R. firm produced 20, at least, video news releases promoting the war. No one has gotten a hold of those to examine them. A reporter from The Progressive investigated this afterwards, and the P.R. firm refused to turn them over. We also know from the University of Amherst study back then, and there have been other studies that have corroborated this with other situations since, that the American public, who watched the most TV coverage of that Gulf War, thought they knew the most, actually knew less than most people who were getting their news through newspapers, for instance, and yet were the strongest supporters of the war. So, the bottom line here is that if you are watching war on television, with all of the propaganda and video news releases that go along with it, you are actually being misinformed, and yet you're more likely to support the war. Television is the number one source of so-called news for most Americans, and a huge proportion of that is fake news.
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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/14/152202
KEF Media happen to recieve some of the recent govt money for some PR work, by chance? Just curious.
Repackaged promos for various junk, be it makeup, drugs, or whatever, is just child's play. Evidence that the so called news outlets are more interested in money than journalistic integrity, and that they couldn't care less about their viewers. The fact that any of the VNRs would even pass as news, edited and repackaged or not, says volumes about what's considered news, doesn't it?
But then we get into the propaganda pieces put out by govt... pretty disgusting. Even more so when so called news outlets go along with the lies. And to think it's been going on for years... who needs a state run station when all the major outlets are doing your bidding? Liberal news media, conservative news media... what a joke.
BTW, I hold to the "Synthetically Produced Artificial Meat" definition for the acronym, at the least, in it's application to mainstream news. There's nothing real about it.
Kevin Foley
Foley also noted in the op-ed that a first stage cervical cancer patient who sees a story on her local news that's based on a VNR and learns of a new treatment option for the disease has clearly benefited.
Mimyx is a prescription medicine, so patients receiving the treatment would also get all of the safety and contraindication information they need from their doctors and/or pharamcists. Again, someone suffering from painful eczema who is not familiar with treatment options may well have benefited by seeing the WYTV-33 story.
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