BLOOMBERG - FCC PROBING P.R. CLIPS SHOWN AS NEWS

The FCC is investigating 77 television stations for allegedly airing video news releases from 49 companies on their local newscasts without disclosing their sources, Bloomberg News reported Thursday. The FCC probe was reportedly touched off by a study by the Madison-WI-based Center for Media and Democracy. "We're very happy to see that the FCC is taking this serious," Diane Farsetta, the study's co-author, told today's (Friday) Los Angeles Times. "It's an obvious breech of journalistic standards."

26/05/2006