NYT Covers Up Own Mistakes?
We don’t hand out our “Stinky Fish” awards–those given for the worst examples of journalism we can find–very often, but our nomination for worst newspaper article of the day has to go to the NYT’s David Barstow for a shallow piece in today’s paper on video news releases.
Barstow somehow manages to write up a new report from the Center for Media & Democracy that alleges widespread use of video news releases without actually naming a single one of the 69 stations that used them or talking to any of the news directors at the accused stations about their use of the controversial VNRs, prepared by companies like General Motors, Capital One, and Pfizer and then run as news stories without explaining their PR genesis.
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