VNR: FCC says pay for play doesn’t matter

Posted on October 2nd, 2007 by Deb Wenger

The Federal Communications Commission says just because you’re not getting paid to air it, doesn’t mean you get a free ride when it comes to identifying VNRs for viewers.
According to Broadcasting & Cable, the FCC has issued four more proposed fines against Comcast for airing four video news releases (VNRs) on non-controversial topics for which [...]

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Giving objectivity a bad name

Posted on October 2nd, 2007 by Deborah Potter

Journalists sometimes miss or underplay big stories by trying to be objective in the wrong way, says UNC’s Phil Meyer. Instead of presenting “both sides” and letting the audience decide, Meyer argues in the new Yale Climate Media Forum that journalists should be objective in their method, not their result.
In other words, journalists should [...]

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