Video news releases

The Center for Media and Democracy's Executive Director, John Stauber disagreed. "The use of VNRs amounts to systematic deception of viewers, both by the hidden interested parties behind them, and by news organizations with impure motives themselves," he said.

After much dumbing down and peddling of various products/ideas, barely a skerrick of journalism. Commercial TV news is crap. Why bother watching? I don't.