Senate Votes to Ban Video News Releases (washingtonpost.com): "By LAURIE KELLMAN | The Associated Press | Friday, April 15, 2005; 9:16 AM
WASHINGTON - The Senate passed a measure Thursday that would stop government agencies from using taxpayer funds to disguise video press releases as real news, putting the brakes on a product Democrats call propaganda. President Bush cautioned that some responsibility for full disclosure rests with news outlets.
'It's deceptive to the American people if it's not disclosed,' Bush told the American Society of Newspaper Editors on Thursday. 'But it's incumbent upon people who use them to say, 'This news clip was produced by the federal government.''
Senators voted 98-0 to attach the measure, sponsored by Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., to the $80.6 billion emergency spending bill to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Under it, taxpayer funds would be prohibited from being used for prepackaged news stories unless those stories contain "clear notification within the text or audio of the prepackaged news" that discloses it was prepared or funded by a federal agency. ...
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