Re:Local TV stations pushed the same Amazon-scripted segment
by downerending on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @05:39PM
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This is correct. Had a friend in PR who did this sort of thing. They have money and time, and local news stations do not.
It's probably not so bad when the piece is on the wonders of asparagus and why you should eat more.
Re:Local TV stations pushed the same Amazon-scripted segment
by marakv2 on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @10:09PM
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It is that bad (imo), unless it's clearly stated that it's a paid advertisement (that's what PR is), then you cannot trust your news source.
Re:Local TV stations pushed the same Amazon-scripted segment
by Spivak on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @11:10PM
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But it’s not a paid advertisement. It’s a corporate blog post published to an RSS feed for journalists to do with as they please.
It’s worse than a paid advertisement because news orgs are running it for free and doing absolutely nothing novel or critical with it.
Re:Local TV stations pushed the same Amazon-scripted segment
by marakv2 on Thursday May 28, 2020 @05:13AM
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Their not paying for it? That doesn't seem right.
Re:Local TV stations pushed the same Amazon-scripted segment
by runawaybottle on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @06:11PM
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This dark pattern is particular bad when extended to critical things, like national politics. Political think-tanks did a mass campaign like this to build the narrative for the Iraq War.
Heritage Foundation is one of the really bad actors here.
I’m sure there are criticisms about specific points, there always are, but I was aghast reading Flat Earth News a decade ago. I encourage everyone to pick up a copy for £3 on kindle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Davies#Critical_reaction_...