"Televised news operations, like CNN or CBS, will be in compliance if newscasters simply wink at the camera at least once every 20 seconds during agenda-driven stories," reports ScrappleFace re new FCC "guidelines for flagging so called 'agenda-driven' news to make sources and motivation more transparent to news consumers":
"Americans have a right to know whether there is an agenda or any bias behind the news reports they read, hear or view," said a spokesman from the FCC. "Just as the White House shouldn't try to accomplish its public relations goals with unattributed faux newscasts, so the editors at the Washington Post and MSNBC cannot hide their political agendas behind a patina of journalistic credibility."
Fortunately, there's no need for FCC interference. The blogosphere is on the case.
Why should the lamestream media rail against the White House about "faux newscasts" when it was the media itself that originally invented it and have long cultivated such practices under the guise of "objectivity"?
Posted by: Hankmeister© | February 19, 2005 at 11:03 AM
So now we have Faux News, C-BS, Nothing But C---, Always Bunk Credulousness, along with the Communist News Network, etc. How to tell the difference? Only one is right.
Posted by: Pat'sRick© | February 19, 2005 at 03:42 PM