The Nightly News Sell

October 24, 2003

While the newsworthiness of the stories on the nightly news is sometimes debatable, viewers can at least rest assured that the stories were produced by journalists. Or can they? Bob reports from the fuzzy territory where public relations becomes news, in the form of the ubiquitous, but largely invisible, "video news release."

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