4.13.2006

April Show '06: FAKE NEWS!!!!

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learn more about this issue and the campaign to STOP fake news at: Free Press



Sinclair Terrorizes with ‘I-Porn’
Faux tech-expert Robin Raskin offers video games as the antidote to “scary” pornographic i-Pods. What Raskin doesn’t mention is that she’s on the payroll of the companies whose products she’s pushing.



Clear Channel Delivers a Placebo
Carrie Lazarus hails a dietary supplement as a “major health breakthrough” for arthritis sufferers. She fails to point out that the sponsor of the VNR manufactures the supplement, nor mention that it barely outperforms a placebo.




Fox Sweetens the Pitch
“Parenting expert” Julie Edelman advises viewers to throw a “Hide and Glow” scavenger hunt featuring brand-name M&M candies. What the station didn’t reveal is that it lifted the entire segment from a VNR co-funded by Masterfoods (formerly the M&M/Mars Company).

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