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Originally posted by ktsnake
It just shows how lazy (and cheap) news reporting has become. I see professional reporters today put less effort into packages than I did when I was given a 4 hour deadline working on my college newscast, armed with a camera on loan from the school, a halogen light, a tripod, and analog editing decks... Sad.
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I don't totally agree, but...
Actually, the real abuse here, in my mind, is that it is really PR, not news. To be fair, it is much more likely to see small market stations using an entire package like this.
In any event, you're certainly only geting one side of the story, and it's scary to me when a unit of government is dictating that side. I see it as less sinister (although sometimes not much) when it comes from GM or Ford telling you about their new model gas guzzler.
To use the dreaded word from the Cold War -- It's Propaganda.
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