Totally Corrupt TV: Corporate Lobbyists Pose as Disinterested Experts on Cable News

[JohnWxy]

http://www.alternet.org/story/145711/totally_corrupt_tv...


a four-month investigation by The Nation has found: "Since 2007 at least seventy-five registered lobbyists, public relations representatives and corporate officials--people paid by companies and trade groups to manage their public image and promote their financial and political interests--have appeared on MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, CNBC and Fox Business Network with no disclosure of the corporate interests that had paid them. Many have been regulars on more than one of the cable networks, turning in dozens--and in some cases hundreds--of appearances."

[daleanime]

1. It's a shame...

that the only people who would be surprised by this will never see it

[global1]

2. Is There A List Of Names Of These People So That When They Appear Again.....

we will know and can call them out?

They should all have to declare their affiliations before they are allowed to speak. The public needs to know where these people are coming from.

We should have a deck of cards with their pictures and affiliations - like *Co had of the Iraqi government officials.

[Jefferson23]

3. I bookmarked this, thank you for posting.

*Jay Rosen, a media critic and journalism professor at New York University, has a different take. "More disclosure is good--I'm certainly in favor of that--but why are these people on at all?" asks Rosen. "They have views and can manufacture opinions around any event at any time."

That's it in a nutshell.