Comments on: The best fake news money can buy

By: Bunny

Bunny — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:28:45 +0000

It is the cheap way to do it. Murdock is famous for buying a newsroom, and cutting most of the jobs. No more investigative journalism. The poor sods left don’t have time to photocopy press releases AND wipe their arses.

America does export fictional news now. Many parts of the world have US Army run TV Stations, or Pentecostal Christian run TV stations. These stations have a 0% accuracy rating. It is the new American “Freedom Truth”.

By: Iron Knee

Iron Knee — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:56:03 +0000

It is hard for me to believe this is about laziness and cheapness. If that were so, then TV stations would not go to all the trouble of doing voice overs with their own reporter’s voices and other tricks to disguise these ads as news.

Also, I’m not sure what Dave K means by “opposing side” — would this be the people who like their news to be truthful?

By: Bill M.

Bill M. — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:12:12 +0000

We need to take back the public airwaves. Remember when more that 2 corporations owned all the broadcast stations? Remember when there was REAL journalism? I believe that if the fourth estate had been on the job, Bush would not have had a second term.

By: Dave K

Dave K — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:50:55 +0000

This is more about laziness and cheapness than anything else.

If the opposing side made good eye-candy-like video reports, those too would probably get put on the air.