WGA Report Supports CMD's 'Stop Fake News' Campaign [1]
Submitted by John Stauber [2] on
More bad and disturbing news about the decline and corruption of TV journalism, a term that seems almost an oxymoron. "Broadcast Newswriters Speak About News Quality [3]," an in-depth investigation from the AFL-CIO [4] Writers Guild of America East [5], buoys the findings of CMD's 2006 investigations [6] of the widespread and undisclosed airing of fake TV news [7]. "WGA members cited 'daily' and 'chronic' use of VNRs in some of their newsrooms." Among the report's recommendation are "support for the Center For Media and Democracy's proposals [8] for video news releases" and "make infractions to these public interest requirements punishable by fine and require adherence to these standards for license renewal."