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How to Snooze the News

Lewis Black gives the dope on VNRs -- propaganda films produced to look like news reports and run by television statements as real news reports.  Once upon a time the news was considered a public service, and would generally cost more money than it brought in.  But now television news is often expected to turn a profit, and doing actual news costs money.  So, local news producers are happy to fill the air with free content. For more on this, check out Sourcewatch.

posted by: JohnnyAngel at 05/13/06 23:38 | link | comments |

Colber Re-plugged

YouTube.com has removed Stephen Colbert's segment from its site due to "Copyright Infringement."  Funny, a lot of stuff at YouTube seems to infringe copyright, so I don't see why this is special. 

Salon.com Has It

posted by: JohnnyAngel at 05/03/06 20:38 | link | comments (1) |