Sunday, June 14, 2009

how to tell pr spew from news

frankly, these days it's getting hard to tell the difference. with layoffs across all media and our apparent indifference to political and fourth estate news, it's getting harder & harder for the remaining journalists to resist the siren call of using wikipedia entries as source material and disguising press releases as legitimate news.

luckily, the center for media and democracy publishes pr watch, which can teach you to tell original footage from repurposed b-roll.