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Fox Dumps Ads on Nation's Children

Posted on 11/27/2008 by Gabriel Voiles

TV reporter Michael Schneider updates us (Variety, 11/25/08) on Fox's race to the ethical bottom of media programming. The real losers? Kids, as usual: In an unprecedented move, Fox will program two hours of longform commercials on Saturday mornings starting … Continue reading →

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Media's Election Profits

Posted on 10/23/2008 by Isabel Macdonald

Analysts have projected that Barack Obama's ad spending would this week "surpass the $188 million Mr. Bush spent in his 2004 campaign." During the last two weeks of the election, the Obama campaign has budgeted $30 million for ads in … Continue reading →

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Public 'Much Tougher Sell Than Corporate Media'

Posted on 10/14/2008 by Gabriel Voiles

Expanding on her blog post of October 8, FAIR Communications Director Isabel Macdonald details (Common Dreams, 10/13/08) "one small glitch" in "the Obsession campaign's marketing plan [that] has been quite slick": The public doesn't seem to be buying it. Newspapers … Continue reading →

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Exposing the Money Behind the Hate

Posted on 10/10/2008 by Gabriel Voiles

An Inter Press Service piece (9/24/08) on the U.S.-press-distributed anti-Muslim video Obsession gives kudos to major metropolitan newspapers solicited to insert the paid advertisement into their product [that] have refused to do so…. "Despite the perilous state of American newspapers, … Continue reading →

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Environmentalists' Money No Good at ABC

Posted on 10/08/2008 by Gabriel Voiles

Ecology blog LiveGaia posts another entry (10/8/08) in the annals of corporate media's poor advertising ethics: Last night in America, after the presidential debate the ads shown were as follows. ABC had Chevron. CBS had Exxon. CNN had the coal … Continue reading →

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'The Sponsor's [Occasional] Right to Free Speech'

Posted on 10/06/2008 by Gabriel Voiles

In an update on the furor over U.S. newspapers' distribution of a virulently anti-Muslim DVD supplement, Anick Jesdanun of the Associated Press reports (10/4/08) that "the New York Times distributed it on the grounds that rejecting it would violate the … Continue reading →

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Local News' PR Epidemic

Posted on 09/29/2008 by Gabriel Voiles

Reporters of integrity quitting their jobs over what amount to unidentified ads in local news has prompted journalist groups to condemn "broadcast outlets using video news releases that are produced by pharmaceutical companies and healthcare providers to look like news … Continue reading →

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