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March 28, 2011

TV Stations Fined For Airing Corporate-Sponsored Fake News 
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In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission has fined
two local TV stations for airing corporate-sponsored video news releases
and disguising the content as actual news. Fox affiliate KMSP in
Minneapolis and NBC affiliate WMGM in South New Jersey were each fined
$4,000 for airing the video news releases, or known as VRMs. The fines
came in response to a 2006 complaint filed by Free Press and the Center
for Media and Democracy.



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