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Community => Society and History => Topic started by: Ultimate Paragon on July 08, 2015, 05:23:47 pm
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http://investmentwatchblog.com/cnn-to-broadcast-corporate-propaganda-as-news-cnn-is-now-allowing-corporations-to-pay-the-network-to-produce-slick-pr-pieces-about-them-disguised-to-look-like-news-content/ (http://investmentwatchblog.com/cnn-to-broadcast-corporate-propaganda-as-news-cnn-is-now-allowing-corporations-to-pay-the-network-to-produce-slick-pr-pieces-about-them-disguised-to-look-like-news-content/)
In a 1958 speech to the Radio and Television News Directors Association, veteran CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow told a roomful of TV executives, “We are currently wealthy, fat, comfortable and complacent.” The anchorman, who used his position to take on powerful politicians such as former Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy and issues such as segregation, cautioned that the new medium was being used to “distract, delude, amuse and insulate” the public.
Almost 60 years later, Murrow’s warning has gone unheeded by the corporate broadcast media. On June 8, CNN unveiled “Courageous,” a new production unit and an in-house studio that would be paid by advertisers to produce and broadcast news-like “branded content.”
“This isn’t about confusing editorial with advertising,” CNN executive Dan Riess told the Wall Street Journal. But a corporation going beyond advertising on a channel and funding the network to produce PR segments made to look like news is exactly the kind of confusion Riess is referring to.
I knew it would come to this eventually, but that doesn't make it any less outrageous.
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I'm utterly unsurprised CNN did this, given that the New York Times already did (http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jul/08/new-york-times-to-set-up-london-team-focusing-on-native-ads).
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I'm utterly unsurprised CNN did this, given that the New York Times already did (http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jul/08/new-york-times-to-set-up-london-team-focusing-on-native-ads).
Remind me to cancel my subscription.
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Oh look CNN has become Faux Noise.
Ironbite-how awkward.
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This is why I read NPR and independent sources.
Is the Washington Post still safe?
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They ("news" media in general) haver been doing this for quite some time now. Companies will make little 2 minute videos that look like news clips. Then they get actual news organizations to run them as news. It's moray commonly disguised as health. Let me see if I can find that source again.
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I think I've seen exactly what you're talking about, Rookie. It's a bit annoying when you realise it's just a glorified commercial.
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Gotta get the cash, gotta get the dough