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RIAA Writes Its Own News For Local TV

Posted by Zonk on from the how-generous-of-them dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Did your local news recently do a two-minute clip on music copyright infringement? If so, you can thank the RIAA. They sent out a video press release to local news stations as part of their 'holiday anti-piracy campaign.' In it, they warn people that the best way to avoid counterfeit music is to avoid 'compilation CDs that could only exist in the dreams of a music fan' and to trust their ears, because illegally copied music usually sounds 'atrocious.' Instead, they encourage watchers to buy ringtones for Christmas."

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  1. This surely doesn't surprise anyone - Right? by TheNetAvenger · · Score: 0, Troll

    This surely doesn't surprise anyone - Right?

    The Republican Party was one of the inventors of the made for news clips and it has been very big for the past 15 years, and the Bush administration has a whole department that does nothing but make propaganda pieces promoting their policies that are distributed to local news. (Even though highly illegal in the US because it is 'propaganda')

    This actually goes back to the Nixon administration, and was part of the bigger Media scandal behind Nixon being taken down. In the constructs of things, it was his information agency that was never reported on much because most news stations and papers were guilty of using their information that was a bigger crime than the Watergate break in.

    Do a quick search on topics covered by Noam Chomsky for this story and others in the current media that use these practices.

    There are so many canned news reports and 'scripts' written for reporters now it is more common that actual reporting. If you have access to local news stations from several areas of the county, most of the time, high profile and political 'world' or 'national' subject coverage will be word for word or close to word for word from the script that was written for them.

    Both sides of the political sides in the US use this, but the Republicans have been the masters of it and don't mind mixing in lies or going for the throat, where the Democratic toned scripts don't cross those lines.

    The media loves this crap, cheap news segments...