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[Grasshopper27]

Sheesh, as if product plugs in movies were not bad enough (which I honestly don't mind, because it is obvious they are paid spots):

TV station WTVH in Syracuse, New York has an afternoon newscast called "Central New York Live!" I am not certain that the program itself deserves an exclamation point, but one of its practices deserves a couple of them.

It seems that WTVH is selling airtime to sponsors--not during the commercial blocks, but during the actual program. Exclamation point. It is, in other words, disguising commercials as legitimate "news" interviews. Exclamation point, exclamation point.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,79247,00.html

Hopper

 

[Zim Hosein]

Sadly Hopper, it's just the evolution to blur news and commercials

 

[Grasshopper27]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Sadly Hopper, it's just the evolution to blur news and commercials

Yea, and what sucks is that it means you can't always take the news 100% seriously anymore.

Oh wait, that's been true for awhile now.

Hopper