Posted on 02/19/2005 4:55:32 AM PST by FlyLow
(2005-02-19) -- Just a day after the U.S. comptroller general warned the White House against distributing simulated newscasts that promote administration policies without clearly stating the source, major U.S. media outlets including the New York Times, CNN and CBS News have received a similar advisory.
"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."
The new warning includes guidelines for flagging so called 'agenda-driven' news to make sources and motivation more transparent to news consumers.
Under the terms of the new protocol, the New York Times, Washington Post and L.A. Times, for example, may continue their traditional 'news' coverage, but all sections of the papers will now be labeled 'Op-Ed.'
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.
Excellent.
Too bad this is just fun and games and not reality.
Lol
lol , Pong
Scrappleface is good! I thought this was a factual story right up until the last line. "wink"
Seemingly a plant of Nader.
That, of course, does not merit an investigation by the 'regulars'.
It's kind of like my suggestion that the WA Freepers stand outside the Whitehouse press conferences and hand out red or blue cards to reporters so that the reporters can raise the card to be called on by Scott McClellan. We would also hand out rainbows to affix to the card for any Gay reporters, just so that we know of any preconcieved bias that may influence their questions.
"We would also hand out rainbows to affix to the card for any Gay reporters, just so that we know of any preconcieved bias that may influence their questions."
The rainbow should be a required sign/flag by any so called news article, oped, editorial, ? written by the hostile gay mediots.
If we saw a minature rainbow by the article and/or mediot penning the lies, we could save a lot of time by not reading the so called article.
Pinging the usual suspects!
(anyone wanting on or off the satire ping list, let me know!)
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