{"id":195,"date":"2006-12-13T05:17:47","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T11:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/12\/13\/isnt-it-ironic\/"},"modified":"2006-12-13T05:17:47","modified_gmt":"2006-12-13T11:17:47","slug":"isnt-it-ironic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=195","title":{"rendered":"Isn&#8217;t It Ironic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Strib loudly laments the fall of journalism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;TV stations <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/562\/story\/871497.html\">air PR puff pieces and call it news&#8221;<\/a>, they whinge&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last month, the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) released its second report on television stations&#8217; use of VNRs. One Minneapolis\/St. Paul station was on the list. In June, KMSP-9 aired an entire, uncut VNR from General Motors. Station anchor Karen Scullin even introduced the narrating publicist, as if he were a reporter. No disclosure was provided to viewers.<\/p>\n<p>While the need to clearly label such materials might seem obvious, an association of broadcast news professionals &#8212; the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) &#8212; recently joined the PR industry in fighting to keep the status quo: many VNRs and no disclosure required.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmmm.<\/p>\n<p>Yes.\u00a0 It would really be a problem if the media published uncritical puff pieces without giving the reader any context, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/archives\/008031.html\">wouldn&#8217;t it<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Strib loudly laments the fall of journalism. &#8220;TV stations air PR puff pieces and call it news&#8221;, they whinge&#8230;: Last month, the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) released its second report on television stations&#8217; use of VNRs. One Minneapolis\/St. Paul station was on the list. In June, KMSP-9 aired an entire, uncut VNR [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}