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Fake TV News Widespread and Undisclosed
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Center for Media and Democracy
November 14, 2008
WASHINGTON The Center for Media Democracy and Free Press today exposed an epidemic of fake news infiltrating local television broadcasts across country. At a press conference in Washington with FCC Commissioner Jonathan S. Adelstein, the groups called for a crackdown on stations that present corporate-sponsored videos as genuine news to an unsuspecting audience.
CMD, which unveiled the results of a 10-month investigation, found scores of local stations slipping commercial “video news releases,” or VNRs, into their regular news programming. The new multimedia report released today includes footage of 36 separate VNRs and their broadcast as “news” by TV stations and networks nationwide, including those in the nation’s biggest markets.
The full report — “Fake TV News: Widespread and Undisclosed” — is now available complete with VNR and TV station video footage at www.prwatch.org/fakenews/execsummary.
“It’s shocking to see how product placement moves secretly unfiltered from the boardroom to the newsroom and then straight into our living rooms,” said Diane Farsetta, a senior researcher at CMD and co-author of the report. “Local TV broadcasts — the most popular news source in the United States — frequently air VNRs without fact-checking, conducting their own reporting, or disclosing that the footage has been provided and sponsored by big corporations.”
Investigators captured 77 television stations actively disguising sponsored content from companies including General Motors, Intel, Pfizer and Capital One to make it look like their own reporting. More than one-third of the time, stations aired fake news stories in their entirety as their own reporting.
- A d v e r t i s e m e n t
Despite repeated claims from broadcasters that they do not air VNRs as news, the new report reveals just the tip of the iceberg. Instances of fake TV news documented by CMD likely represent less than 1 percent of VNRs distributed to local newsrooms since June 2005. Fraudulent news reports have likely been aired on hundreds of more local newscasts in the past year.
“The president of the Radio-Television News Directors Association, Barbara Cochran, called fake news ‘kind of like the Loch Ness Monster. Everyone talks about it, but not many people have actually seen it,’ ” said John Stauber, executive director of CMD. “This report drops a big nest of squirming Nessies in the laps of TV journalists. Fake TV news is the worst plagiarism scandal in American journalism, and it must be stopped by labeling all VNRs on screen so viewers can tell if its news or fake news.”
Approximately 80 percent of the stations snared in the investigation are owned by large conglomerates. The list of the worst offenders includes Clear Channel, News Corp./Fox Television, Viacom/CBS, Tribune Co. and Sinclair Broadcast Group – whose Oklahoma City affiliate was caught airing VNRs on six separate occasions.
“The evidence suggests a strong connection between media consolidation and the broadcast of deceptive, pre-packaged propaganda,” said Timothy Karr, campaign director of Free Press. “When all station owners care about is profit margins, fake news can prove irresistible. After all, VNRs are free. Reporting news that’s meaningful to local communities isn’t. And without decisive government action, the fake news problem will only get worse.”
In conjunction with the report, Free Press launched www.freepress.net/fakenews — urging the public to contact the FCC and demand “No Fake News.”
Free Press and CMD also filed a formal complaint with the FCC, seeking a thorough investigation “to help restore the public trust in the integrity of local news.” The public interest groups want all VNRs be accompanied by a continuous, frame-by-frame visual notifications and verbal announcements disclosing their sources. They also recommended broadcasters be required to file monthly public reports detailing their use of government or corporate-sponsored material. The FCC complaint is available at www.freepress.net/docs/fcc_complaint_4-06-06.pdf
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November 14th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Message Force Multipliers…. nuff said
November 14th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
omg
November 14th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
this fight on VNR will stirr a fight on indy media like alex jones. watch they will cause so much regulation it will strangle indy news media. the fake ny times seems too convenient to create some false flag fuss to limit free speech bill against any news media except certified media sources.
November 14th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
Only the sheeple watch the boob tube for news anymore. It’s all so faked and full of it. It makes me sick to my stomach really just to sit in front of it most of the time. I look to alternative news sites for real news. Infowars is one of them, but there are many that are just as good or better….
November 14th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Call me a vain optimist but… this seems like a touch of “good” news, no?
November 14th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
I only watch the fake news now to see the lies that they are selling the sheep. Infowars is a good base place to get real news. Then work off from there to americanfreepress.net , rense.com , and others…most of you know this…it is important to turn others on to the real news sites. they may laugh at you but then about 2 months later some will come around…it will surprise you…just plant the seeds…
we need to find another Ron Paul to run for president in 2012. Ron is getting older and not sure if he will do it again or not…but, we need to be thinking that way now.
November 15th, 2008 at 12:01 am
The people most deserving of your white-hot anger on any local or national “news” program are the weather forecasters. These scumbags have remained silent so you and your family could be systematically poisoned for the last ten years by metallic weather modification chemicals.
Military aircraft are constantly spraying you and your loved ones with toxic barium, aluminum and biological agents. Even after their latest purge, there are still more than 10,000 YouTube videos about chemtrails. But less than ten local US news stations have aired anything even questioning this terrorism in our skies.
So exit this page right now and start sending every weatherclown in your city an email asking why airplanes are spraying chemical trails overhead that leave your children sick and gasping for breath. Pictures taken in your area also help to make your point.
You also should contact a few friends now, make some simple signs and go legally protest in front of a local TV station to increase awareness about this ongoing program of global genocide!
November 15th, 2008 at 12:21 am
Fake TV News Widespread and Undisclosed ???? Where’s the news? This has been going on for decades.
November 15th, 2008 at 12:23 am
http://expansions.com/
November 15th, 2008 at 12:41 am
Create a Scapegoat, back to business as usual. The propaganda machine will roll on. People love their absurdity generators now more than ever. They love their cool aid in HD.
My favorite nickname for the television (and I have many)
is “the suggestion box”.
November 15th, 2008 at 12:44 am
get the most popular conspiracy shirts at http://www.cafepress.com/politicalplexus and show the man u dont give a crap
November 15th, 2008 at 1:30 am
My question is if this organization or someone educated in this kind of thing has actually investigated the local media in smaller towns or cities ? I would love to see a database of all the offenses these channels, stations, and papers in explicit details of what their offenses are.
November 15th, 2008 at 1:43 am
They just now discovering this after 60 years?
November 15th, 2008 at 1:52 am
Ha ha … this is too funny. Anyone who thinks MSM “news” has any credibility at all after Walter Cronkite’s documented involvement with the CFR needs a head check.
It’s a shame, but you really cannot trust anyone completely to give you “news”.
Check everything and think critically. No one is responsible for the content of your mind but you … Remember GIGO (Garbage in … Garbage out).
God save our Republic.
November 15th, 2008 at 2:12 am
http://www.expansions.com
November 15th, 2008 at 2:16 am
The Corporate Elite have always owned the news media just like they own our Representatives in the US Congress, and Senate! They bought and paid for them as well! Hell now they use the US Congress, and Senate to steal our tax dollars right in front of our faces even though the American people were against the Corporate Elite’s bail out! God save the Republic!
November 15th, 2008 at 2:19 am
Seems to me that perhaps the news stations stepped out of line with their order givers and are now paying for it.
November 15th, 2008 at 2:23 am
I was on hold with the fairfax county voter registration (va) for over 3 1/2 hours. I called fox news to make a report and ended up being on washington dc fox news at 11 p.m., 6 a.m., and 5 p.m. ….. the link:
http://www.myfoxdc.com/myfox/p.....Id=7696050
anyway…. they had NO VERIFICATION AS TO HOW LONG I WAS ON THE PHONE!!!!!!!!! But ran the ad as FACT… My story is true…. however, as i said, there was no verification….
I AM SURE THIS COULD BE CONSIDERED “FAKE TV NEWS”
OPEN YOUR EYES AMERICA….. NEW WORLD ORDER: YOU CAN GO F%CK YOURSELF!!!!!!!!!
ZEITGEIST.com
November 15th, 2008 at 3:10 am
Local news is dead. The internet killed it. Why keep paying people to find REAL news when you can just run all the vids the corporations give you? Makes perfect sense to me.
November 15th, 2008 at 3:14 am
why is this shocking?
i had thought this was a given….
kill your tv and go have adventures before they take it away from us
go prove all this s--- that you all therorize.
THE f---ING TV LIES!!!!! WAKE THE f--- UP!!!!!
November 15th, 2008 at 3:56 am
What the f--- are they trying to do?
Seriously, do they think they can fake a Iraq retreat or something?
November 15th, 2008 at 3:57 am
What difference does it make? 90% of the “real” news stories are a load of s--- that the sheeple scarf down like it was their last meal before execution. The retarded masses are too far gone. Fox News, shocking!
November 15th, 2008 at 4:10 am
Yeah and Big Brother wants converter boxes cuz TV is going digital in February 2009. Wonder why? It is better not to watch TV, anyway since most of the news are lies and trash, and the sitcoms and shows are generally garbage, as well. Hmmm. Peace.
November 15th, 2008 at 4:36 am
alex plays alot of satanic heavy metal in his broadcast.
so all of you fake christians beware.
November 15th, 2008 at 4:37 am
but i really like listening to the show by the way.
November 15th, 2008 at 5:02 am
this sounds like “fake news” with all the media scrutiny from the public lately, they’re trying to blame the liberal bias on something/ somone else. too late, people are starting to feel the same way about the media as they do the government, no trust.
November 15th, 2008 at 5:09 am
go watch the documentry out-foxed, see the world according to your favourite antipodean mr murdoch.
November 15th, 2008 at 5:23 am
This reminds me of a movie i saw in 1998 called WAG THE DOG.
This story SMACKS of WAG THE PRESS.
November 15th, 2008 at 6:15 am
you are what you watch.
November 15th, 2008 at 6:32 am
So does that mean that CNBC is to be considered “fake” due to them being owned by GE?
Every station has sponsors which will undoubtedly have an effect on slant of the news.
November 15th, 2008 at 7:13 am
The problem isnt the bankers robbing us citizens, the problem isnt 9-11 being a inside job, everything that is wrong in the world is not the problem with one exception… The real problem is the MAINSTREAM MEDIA. If mainstream news reported the truth and looked out for the people of the USA you wouldnt have had these bank failings the crooks would be put under scrutiny and be kept in CHECK. Problem today is the Crooks own the mainstream media.
November 15th, 2008 at 7:47 am
#35…take it a bit further..the real problem is that the main stream media is unconcious and unaware of there state of mind..they are controlled by there ego’s so they hurt others and self destruct also..sad way to live but thats how most live there lives..untill they become part of the new conciousness there is no hope..not sure this will happen but who know’s?…not me thats for sure..untill then..dig a well..grow as much of your own food as you can…fast 1 day a week.. de program yourself and learn to think from inside as you have been lied to since the day you were born..let the universe guide you.. ..buy rural land..buy solar panels and make your own electric.. throw away your propaganda box (t.v)run from doctors unless you have to go and live a simple life..:-)..
November 15th, 2008 at 8:00 am
just get rid of your tv …i did 8 years ago
its kinda like not having the “movie critic” for the movie before u see it
movie critic being the TV and the movie being REAL LIFE
you dont go into a meltdown
remember
REAL EYES
will
RELIZE
REAL LIES
if given the chance
November 15th, 2008 at 8:09 am
it’s all fake. this isn’t news. they’ll spend a whole day on blatant fake news like brittany spears.
November 15th, 2008 at 8:42 am
I don’t understand what a vnr is…someone help me out–any youtube’s of this actually happening?
November 15th, 2008 at 8:47 am
HERE IS A VNR FROM CERN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5mYo-w–OM
Titor told us that they’d be using these…just kiddin.
November 15th, 2008 at 8:48 am
Looks like the companies send footage with a few people speaking on it to the news media. THen the locals just fill in the audio and call it their news story
November 15th, 2008 at 9:13 am
I don’t know how many times I’ve heard CNN’s anchors say once in a while to it’s viewers, “Welcome to the show.’
November 15th, 2008 at 9:28 am
I’m just posting this in many places this morning…Chemtrail Chemical smell is so bad here this a.m. that it woke me up. Very strong odor. The sky has a thin haze over it but it looks to be clearing now. Earlier last evening and early this morning there was a thicker cloud cover and the striations that indicate the “man-made” cloud look. Portland, Oregon.
November 15th, 2008 at 10:46 am
Who really cares what they show on network tv? I mean to say, the sheep that still utilize this medium for their information are already gone. Scrape them off and move on. It wouldn’t matter if they scrolled “this is a lie” across the bottom of the screen; the sheep wouldn’t know the difference. I would suggest free press and any other organization involved in this, to concentrate on the pathetic non-reporting of the real issues that effect the human condition.
I view cnn routinely and their ” news” stories would be laughable, if they weren’t so disturbingly moot.
Not a single story of substance. I sometimes almost regret being woken up. Ignorance is truly bliss.
I live in a major metro area, Philly, and I only rarely find someone who has an inkling as to the diabolical plots surrounding them. Those that do have an inkling are still much in the dark; as getting up to speed requires 100s or hours of research. The proverbial s--- has hit the fan and we are being sprayed as I write. I still don’t know how alex can restrain his anger as he does. If I had a major radio show i would be screaming at the top of my lungs.
November 15th, 2008 at 11:06 am
i use my tv to watch my favorte movies like the patriot and bravehart. these movies inspire me to become the freedom fighter i used to dream about as a child. for some reason(tv) you sheeple wont stand together, and it upsets me to see the republic that so many americans died for turn into a democracy of all fukin things!!!!!!!!
btw comment #6, DO YOU ACTUALLY BELEIVE THAT ELECTION BULLs---!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PS. our forefathers said dont trust govt for they are man and can be corrupted
November 15th, 2008 at 11:32 am
There’s a lot of people out there that would call “Alex Jones Show” a fake TV news broadcast and they probably do! Nevertheless, no harm intended, keep up the great work infowars!
November 15th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
That is really the crux of the issue , isn’t it ? Are you willing to be LED to keep your comfort zone ? It doesn’t matter if it’s the phony news anchor , the televangalist who purposely misleads his members , or the school teacher who spews the latest propaganda . If you can’t face reality and prefer to hide in your bubble . Then , you are no different than cattle waiting to be slaughtered , literally . These people have chosen themselves over you and are willing to watch you die to save their own sorry asses . Being awake and willing to oppose the NWO is not going to be heroic or glory filled . Be ready to turned on ( by friends and family ) and know it might be a very lonely fight . This is a fight for your mind and soul , make no mistake .
I thought I was ready in my mind for what I am sure will be an execution by the NWO . Until , I had a very
clear and realistic dream . I was in a line at a hospital . I knew I was about to be given a lethal injection and their was no escape . I just kept thinking … I don’t want to die and was remembering all the good events and places that I had been . I can’t begin to tell you how stark and real it was .
Now I know that none of it is going to be about physical battles . Yes, I am willing to protect my family and myself . But , anyone who is informed and not delusional knows that they have gone over every scenario over and over , and will not hesitate to use massive force . After all their goal is genocide of 80 to 90 percent of the world’s population . So my advice to you is to get your mind and soul strong . This not a movie it is history . Just look at the cleansing in Russia , Germany , Cambodia , and the Sudan . Their were no glorious battles just, everyday people who held onto their beliefs , even to the point of death. This is where “I think ” or ” In my opinion ” won’t matter . Only the TRUTH of who we are and where we came from , will !
November 15th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
this is not new and all hot air. the fcc must need some attention or more funding. media.
and now the news
http://www.aniboom.com/video/288554/breaking-news/
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November 15th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
look im getting a rifle and a pistol for my family’s protection im getting supplies and yes im waiting for the endgame to begin because i will fight for the constitution of this country as my forefathers did i have also been informing the people around me of the impending events about to play out and i think you are exactly right #48 that is all we can do and yes i think we do need to get some organization together to stand as a whole or none of us have a chance at survival
November 15th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
history is written by those who have hung heros. we dont have to defeat them for change, we just have to fight them. i would atleast like to try to be a hero of the republic.
you can take my gun when u peel it from my dead cold hand!!!!!!!!
ps.. im willing to die for freedom are you?????????
November 15th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Tell-a-lie-vision IN-DEEEEED!
November 15th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
51 mrmakwhateverthecrap They will kill you , they will pry the gun from your cold dead hands . If you are
lucky . If not… You might find yourself in a cattle car staring at children , old people , and women who have
no idea what is going on . Or living in a prison camp listening to the misery and screams of those you see standing around you right now . Today … go to the grocery store or the mall and look into the eyes of all the people around you . Realize this is not about YOU ! Your acts of heroism won’t be some G.I . Joe fantasy. It will be holding a child telling them it’s ok , when you know your on your way to a death camp . Or giving your last bite to an old lady when your own stomach is in agony . Yeah , defend yourself and family . But , be smart and make good use of your life . Being a source of comfort and strength for those who are desperate is a hundred times greater than being a bullet catcher with delusions of heroism .
November 15th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
If I told you that 100 Billion planes crashed into one spot in my backyard, what would you want as proof that it happened? Keep in mind that the ONLY thing I can offer as proof are videos turned in days, weeks, and even years AFTER the event, eyewitnesses that have direct ties to my house, or grieving family members of people who may or may not have actually been on the flights?
What would you want as proof that the planes existed? What about the black boxes or voice recorders? (All Blackboxes and voice recorders have never been verified on any of the flights from 911) Ok…what about transmissions from the FAA or flight control? (Within minutes of 911 all FAA transmission tapes were confiscated and destroyed). What evidence of luggage, windows, engines, tail sections, captains hat, electronics, laptops, shoes, bones, human remains of any kind, books (other than what was found by Bush authorities), photos, cameras, blood, teeth, fuelsalage, plane markings or numbers? (NONE of that exists on 911. NOT ONE SPECK. The White House has refused any and all verification of any kind regarding anything that was found at any of the crash sites on 911…even though it claims it did DNA testing of all the occupants at the Pentagon. Interesting to note that they identified all the passengers with DNA….EXCEPT the highjackers??!!) What about the ground surrounding the sites? Can’t you test that or show that? (NO. Example…look at the Pentagon. VP Cheney ordered the entire area covered up with 5 feet of dirt and never to be tested for anything. He destroyed the crime scene without a single speck of investigation. Shanksville was even worse. We now know that NOTHING was tested at ground zero in NYC and all of it was ordered destroyed immediately).
If I told you that 100 Billion planes crashed into my back yard….what verifiable evidence would you want to look at to test if it were true? If I am telling you that the government was running terrorist drills in NYC with planted agents everywhere, used the media to fabricate lies and witnesses, and there were 100’s of connections between the passengers and the Bush regime…..would video, witnesses, and missing passengers be proof of anything? Look only at verifiable evidence NOT hearsay. Out of a possible 13.1 million parts that existed on the 4 planes of 911 at 4 different locations….not one single piece has ever been verified outside the Bush white house. Not one. Sounds like the WMD’s in iraq?
November 15th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
just a side note but i watched a movie recently called death race and as the movie came on the prologue was word for word mimiking the statement we all heard earlier this week about by the year 2012 this country will have collapsed economically and that the jobless rate will be staggering to say the least and that the prison system will be taking over by the major corporations to fund them… the ironic part of it was the statement wasnt made to the public until this week but the prologue for the movie was written 2 years ago……!!!!
November 15th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
bite my ballz david i will be dead before i go to a camp! btw i would atleast attempt to fight instead of going down like a panty waste! now david dont be a panty waste because in death atleast i wont have to listen to those children screaming, gauck in the eyes of lost. fuk that i choose liberty or death.
November 15th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
John Swinton New York journalist at a banquet (1880’s): “What folly is this, toasting an independent press? There is no such thing, at this date of the World ’s history,
in America , as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know
beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar
salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my
honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth,
to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon [Biblical ref.], and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I
know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of “rich men” [Biblical ref.] behind the scenes. We are the jumping
jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.”
November 15th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
The invention of television made it much easier for the globalists to manipulate opinion. Americans are so addicted to television its the first thing many of us do when we come home from work. ANd as good, docile media consumers we blindly accept what is coming across airwaves from FOX NEWS, CNN, ABC, CBS, and NBC as the “truth”. We are talking about the U.S. media, which lies, distorts, presents half-truths, omitts, and blackballs honest, dissenting voices. We have STATE/CORPORATE CONTROLLED MEDA masquerading as a “free press”. Its all an illusion. The pundits, journalists, and reporters in the MAINSTREAM MEDIA are nothing more than PROSTITUTES whoring themselves out for their corporate masters. They are MINIONS. Idealogical SERFS not allowed to leave the political plantation. They are told what to say and then they pass it off as independent journalism. NOt one soul in the mass media has called for an independent invstigation into 9/11. Not one!. But this is not surprising considering the fact that only 6 compnaies control nearly everything you SEE on tv, HEAR on radio and READ in newspapers. THose 6 are NEWS CORP, DISNEY, AOL TIME WARNER, BERTELSMANN, GE and VIACOM. Thanks to Bill CLINTON’s 1996 “telecommunication act” they have even more control over the PUBLICS airwaves. I normally go to Alex JONEs’ website or DEmocracy NOW! and AMy Goodman’s website if I want honest, muckraking, investigative reporting. THe job of the press is to be the WATCHDOG for the people. THey have longed abdicted that duty.
November 15th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Does anyone have an example of a VNR hidden within a normal news program on one of the major news networks?
November 15th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Just another step in the dumbing down of America!!!
Set down in front of your big screen with your Diet Coke, and
don’t forget to take your Zoloft before you go to bed.
November 15th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
It took them 10 months to figure this out? Even this is bogus. These criminals just don’t quite.
Product placement moves secretly? What about the subliminal madness that has been on going for generations? Let’s face it. The TV is the biggest mind control tool the controllers have right now. Why do you suppose the government is so kind as to help pay for this new so called HD technology coming into play especially when we are going through this so called BAIL OUT, (robbery)?
How kind and giving they are.
As long as the American sheeple keep buying into this s--- they will continue to keep feeding it to us.
November 16th, 2008 at 12:35 am
hey companies are just doing what bush did LOL
while far from perfect NPR is one of the few news outlets i really trust. over 60% of all money comes from normal people.
November 16th, 2008 at 2:07 am
George Orwell would had laughed when the US Congress deregulated Cable TV in 1984!
Slick Wille Clintion warmed up everyone to this “Post-2001 Newspeak world” by bombing
serbia while hoolywood creates “wag the dog” movie. This intentionally created confusion
in between the Ears of most people paying attention.
Then Curios George comes along and “Lies are truth” while the truth is supressed.
After eight years,The sheep finally got the idea they were being lied to!
The sheep chanted “Ob ba ba ba ba ba ba ma “,”Ob ba ba ba ba ba ba ma “,
Obama is the change you can belive in all right,because he changes what he says
every day.This guy can’t get his story straight.
The TV & the MSM propaganda delivery systems are now prefected,because Who even bothers
to print,or televise the truth? The TV lies and Nelson ratings show that people enjoy being lied
to ‘they can’t wait for more outragious lies to belive in!
After The deregulation of Cable TV in 1984,the biggest infrastructural project since WWII
was the creation of cable wires & fiber optics to bring you the lies and fear straight to your door
The 1980’s was when the finacinal markets began to deregulate and Jobs were outsourced.
The once wealthy middle class ,now poor, has no reson to go anywhere but to and from thier place
of work,and are satisifed to pay to be force fed lies and B*llSh*t.
Most of you redneck bible-babies are idiots! There will be no armed resistence!
But The fact is folks,Without the TV Networks the PTB & the .gov are doomed.
How could they control “the masses” without it?
November 16th, 2008 at 3:53 am
i think i better bombard all the Murdoch newspapers in Australia with this one-i’ve been waiting for a decent article like this that says it how it really is so i can pepper all these professional lip-service freaks who think they are journalists.Ignorant Australians are scarier than ignorant Americans
November 16th, 2008 at 9:42 am
#65 BrainDrain
Excellent comment.
Interestingly when I was a child I watched loads of TV and have been cutting back since going online and the stupid TV commercials have grown longer. My daughter watches only 30 minutes per day, that’s her choice. However the large web sites like Face Book do feed adverts and propaganda.
November 16th, 2008 at 9:45 am
#61
I gave a friend the Loose Change Final Cut DVD. He says he has no time to watch it as he is working so hard. However he has an HD TV so when does he find the time to watch that?
November 16th, 2008 at 10:03 am
#58
Grumpy old men are known to shout at the TV. Since using the Internet (it’s two way) that I can’t bare to watch TV news since I can’t comment. I absolutely have to respond. The TV generation, that’s people between 30 and 60 have been trained to let all this crap straight into their brains.
I find that if I am not careful I am hypnotised by TV. It’s probably the skill required to watch it.
Aid workers showed an african village a film on the problems of moskitos with close ups of them sucking blood. The chief thanked them for the informative show but said that they currently did not have a moskito problem since theirs were only tiny, not massive like the ones in the film.
We are so in tune with watching the screen that we instinctively understand the language of television to the extent that our brains make it real. There is a hypnotic effect that means it goes into our brains automatically rather than being conciously questioned.
November 16th, 2008 at 10:07 am
We tend not to spot the obvious TV trickery used to tell a story. I was watching a nature program on rutting deer. The narration was saying the stags (male) call attracts the doe (female), the screen shows the stag calling, then cuts to the doe pricking up her ears.
My first thought was “Oh yeah, look she pricks up her ears when she hears the stag call” My second thought was “You idiot, they put two shots together to tell the story, she probably pricked up her ears when the director snapped a twig” Not that she would not prick up her ears when the stag calls, just that they were telling a story not showing life as it happens.
I spotted this example, clever me, but I am bombarded with this crap whenever I watch TV and I don’t even know it.
November 16th, 2008 at 10:32 am
PROTEST agaisnt NEXT CIA terrorist attack!!!!!
November 16th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
What do folks expect from TV. But I guess most don’t even think far enough into it that their local FOX, CBS etc. station is actually tied to the massive FOX, CBS etc. conglomorate. Mass media will own you if you let it.
Just turn off the TV. I worshipped at the alter for many years. But now it’s almost cartoonish when I do watch. I see it for what it is. The hard part is the transition. People just can’t imagine what else to do with their time if they aren’t watching TV.
November 16th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
never watched fox, who are they?
November 16th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Where have so many of the reporters of/during 9/11 gone to?
November 16th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
i like watching news these days, its like watching SNAKES belly danceing, haha litrally..
HW Spartan
PS; on your bellies snakes.
November 16th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LyBcEIevNs
cnn’s “live” [in the studio] reports from “saudi arabia” by charles jaco in 1991.
thanks whoever posted this a while back.
November 16th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
I gave videos away as well and I can tell you that nearly no one saw them and it’s been over a year now. It just goes to prove how many idiots are controlled by stupidity who never seem to find anytime to do something to could be worthwhile and meaningful. However, everyone has time to watch sports, dumb reality shows, the mainstream media networks ,cleaning there cars, getting fat and so on. Researching and learning the truth is a bit like asking the majority of lazy people to work out, only a handful will use there extra time intelligently. It is what it is !
November 16th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
It just goes to show how f---in’ stupid the American public is!!! Nascar, football, baseball, you f---in’ name it!!! Don’t read!!! Don’t worry!!! Live!!!! Don’t interact!!! Work!!!Silence!!! “All ‘HAIL’ Thermal Expansion!!!”
November 16th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
GetupStandup, i agree with you 150%. I had the same problem for many years and broke away from tv about 2 years ago. Of course now i am addicted to computer games and reading websites like infowars/prisonplanet. The gaming part i am not sure about but i do find some people who are educated and do enjoy talking to them in a place that is miles away from where i live.
November 16th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
tv hurt my brain all the brain cells loss, never again.
November 17th, 2008 at 12:27 am
what does it matter all tv news is propaganda
anyway don t believe any of it
November 17th, 2008 at 1:28 am
Not surprised. Stop watching the boob tube.
November 17th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
We have not had real news since The Telecommunications Act of 1996. Television conglomerates don’t have to have opposing view points because they want to tell you what to think. If the public were to start to think for themselves, the public would realize how mislead they have become.
Ask question then do your own research.
November 17th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Yup. This will go great with digital broadcast. Fake newscasts pinpointed to specific audiences. Can it get any better? Oh yes it can. Reactions and responses from the viewers directly through their television sets.
November 17th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
DEAR “VOICE”. WHY DO,NT OBAMA INCLUDE THE NEWS MEDIA IN HIS “SO CALLED FAIRNESS DOCTRINE?”
November 17th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
DEAR “VOICE”. WHY DO,NT OBAMA INCLUDE THE NEWS MEDIA IN HIS “SO CALLED FAIRNESS DOCTRINE?”
November 17th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
I heard on the Houston Indymedia show on Houston radio station KPFT that Pfizer issued video news releases. Not only the Pentagon but many pharmaceutical companies do it. These “news” releases might propagandize people into pathologizing discontent as “clinical depression” or worrying as “anxiety disorders”. Then the pharmaceutical companies claim that there are pills for everyones’ “illnesses”.
November 17th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
AAARRRRAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
November 18th, 2008 at 7:41 am
oh my goodness. do you really think that they could get away with that in this wonderful free land of malls and restaurants and shopping and celebrity tv. DARN RIGHT THEY CAN AND DO SO DAILY. WHATDOESITMEAN.COM IS THE LARGEST FREE ENGLISH SPEAKING NEWSWIRE ON THE PLANETT. GET A LOAD OF WHAT THE ASIA TIMES, UK TELEGRAPH, RUSSIAN NEWS, ETC. ARE SAYING. AND IT AINT GOOD FOLKS. GET OUT OF THE BLEACHERS AND IN THE GAME OR SIT BACK WITH YOUR BUD AND BE A COWARD WHILE YOUR COUNTRY OR WHAT IS LEFT OF IT GOES DOWN IN SHAME AND ASHES. THIS IS GO TIME SO JOIN US. LOVE, TCB AND THE REMNANT
November 18th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Hmmm, where I have seen this kind of thing before? Oh yes, on this very site. Click this link to see a screen shot where Jones promises advertisers that their links will be “disguised as news” :
http://img147.imageshack.us/im.....iseen0.gif
Alex, I love you and you often do amazing work but you must stop using the same dishonest methods of the system that you’re fighting against. This in particular is a very shameful instance. Tricking readers into thinking that paid ads are AJ-Approved-News shows a tremendous amount of disdain for your audience. Either you respect us and want us all to be well informed or you treat us in a disdainful manner milking us for fear-dollars so you can make a living. Choose one or the other. You can’t have both.
December 2nd, 2008 at 12:18 pm
I think some of our local stations are getting paid to air drug company propaganda, they certainly act like they are putting on the best spin possible when they are pushing pure crap.
December 2nd, 2008 at 3:15 pm
i heard that news corp’s earnings dissapointed… maybe people are finally searching for alternative news media realizing that the corporate news is a bunch of lies and propaganda.
December 2nd, 2008 at 3:16 pm
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December 2nd, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Obanga IS the change. He’s not going to change anything other than make it worse.
December 2nd, 2008 at 7:38 pm
I’m up in Ill-Noise, about 30 miles west of Chicago. All I
listen to is GCNLive! and RBN streams from Austin. Questions?
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