Posted on 04/10/2009 11:30:50 AM PDT by max americana
Uproar over 'news story' ad on front page of LA Times April 10, 2009
WASHINGTON (AFP) – An advertisement dressed up as a news story on the front page of the Los Angeles Times has reporters at the newspaper fuming and the publisher defending the move.
The advertisement, for the NBC television series "Southland," appeared on page one of the Times on Thursday. Although it was labelled "advertisement," the ad resembled a news story complete with a bold-type headline.
According to the blog MediaMemo, more than 100 staffers at the newspaper signed a petition protesting the appearance of the fake news story ad on the front page.
"We the journalists of the newsroom strenuously object to the decision to sell an ad, in the form of a phony news story, on the front page of the Los Angeles Times," mediamemo.allthingsd.com quoted the petition as saying.
"The NBC ad may have provided some quick cash, but it has caused incalculable damage to this institution," it said. "Placing a fake news article on A-1 makes a mockery of our integrity and our journalistic standards.
"Our willingness to sell our most precious real estate to an advertiser is embarrassing and demoralizing," the petition said.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Apparently Thomas Jefferson came to the same conclusion a few centuries ago:
““I read no newspaper now but Ritchie’s, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.” - Thomas Jefferson Letter to Nathaniel Macon January 12 1819.
9 posted on 04/10/2009 11:50:32 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (No free man bows to a foreign king
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LOL, My thoughts exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!
“According to the blog MediaMemo, more than 100 staffers at the newspaper signed a petition protesting the appearance of the fake news story ad on the front page.”
LOL!! Get used to signing your names, suckers. You’ll need a signature for unemployment insurance! Hey, just push some more Obama fascists as your masters! That’ll work for ya too! LOL!!
I have to agree, that is a very funny line.
And, of course, they don’t see any irony in it.
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