As if the news wasn't fake enough at least 50% of the time heres a little more...They use advertisements pretending to be news all the time. Normally in newspapers when its an ad maquerading as a news item there is a disclaimer/closer identifing it as such. Not on TV...
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77 TV stations aired 'fake news reports'
Ron Brynaert
Published: Wednesday April 5, 2006

A study by a group that monitors the media reveals that, over a ten month span, 77 television stations from all across the nation aired video news releases without informing their viewers even once that the reports were actually sponsored content, RAW STORY has found.

One "news report" that aired on three stations relied on a video news release (VNR) produced by a PR firm on behalf of General Motors which was even apparently based on a "false claim."

Center for Media and Democracy's Fake TV News: Widespread and Undisclosed is "a multimedia report on television newsrooms' use of material provided by PR firms on behalf of paying clients," containing video footage of the 36 video news releases (VNRs) cited in the report, plus a map and spreadsheet of the stations cited.

more more more...
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/77_TV_stations_aired_fake_news_0405.html

ask Dan Rather about this!