Friday, September 19, 2008

Hospitals peddle 'fake news'

The government isn't the only one out there peddling 'fake news' -- spin-filled stories peddled to promote a specific point of view and published with 'lite' or no editing or attribution by the news media, print and TV.

Writing in In These Times, Emily Udell reports on the troubling trend of newspapers allowing hospital public relations offices to write articles for their health pages -- without attribution.

Read more here: "Hospital Flacks Spread Fake News".

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