GM Tries To Drive Young Journalists [1]
Submitted by Diane Farsetta [2] on
"It seems what young student journalists would be 'learning' from this experience is how to take a free trip and meals from one of the company's larger corporations," wrote University of North Carolina business journalism professor Chris Roush. He had just received an email from one of General Motors [3]' PR people, asking for help in promoting GM's "First College Journalists Event," in Las Vegas on September 9 and 10. "GM will pay for travel, hotel and meals for students that attend," GM's Diedra Wylie wrote. "While in Las Vegas the college journalists will have the opportunity to meet with professional journalists and GM executives." The event might be an extension of GM's previous efforts to buy favorable news coverage. Three of the 36 video news releases [4] tracked in the Center for Media and Democracy's "Fake TV News [5]" report were from GM, making it the most frequent fake news [6] client of the report.