{"id":4195,"date":"2005-05-13T11:15:18","date_gmt":"2005-05-13T15:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/4195.html"},"modified":"2005-05-13T11:15:18","modified_gmt":"2005-05-13T15:15:18","slug":"support-for-banning-bushs-fake-news-segment-is-now-bi-partisan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/support-for-banning-bushs-fake-news-segment-is-now-bi-partisan\/","title":{"rendered":"Support for banning Bush&#8217;s fake-news segment is now bi-partisan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About two weeks ago, congressional negotiators agreed to a proposal from Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&#038;storyID=8378804\">prohibit the Bush administration<\/a> from issuing &#8220;video news releases&#8221; (i.e., fake-news segments) that do not clearly identify the government as the source. There was, however, a catch: the ban expires at the end of September.<\/p>\n<p>To get a <i>permanent<\/i> policy restricting Bush&#8217;s fake-news segments, Sens. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.) introduced the <a href=\"http:\/\/lautenberg.senate.gov\/~lautenberg\/press\/2003\/01\/2005428B52.html\">Truth in Broadcasting Act<\/a>, which would require the administration&#8217;s &#8220;stories&#8221; to disclose the source of the material forever more. The problem, at least at first, would be finding some Republican support for the proposal. Yesterday, Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) not only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/05\/12\/AR2005051201825.html\">embraced the initiative<\/a>, but suggested it would sail through his committee with broad support.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A key Senate committee chairman said yesterday that he would support a permanent requirement that federal agencies disclose to viewers the origin of prepackaged news stories they produce.<\/p>\n<p>Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) said there is widespread support in the Senate for ensuring that such video news releases, which are designed to resemble broadcast news stories, include a disclaimer in their scripts or audio revealing that they were prepared by a federal agency.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s not yet a done deal &#8212; Stevens suggested he&#8217;d like to wait until the FCC finishes gathering public comments about video news releases in July &#8212; but he agreed to help Lautenberg and Kerry make the Byrd provision permanent. That&#8217;s encouraging news.<\/p>\n<p>No word yet on whether the Bush administration will lobby against the effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About two weeks ago, congressional negotiators agreed to a proposal from Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) to prohibit the Bush administration from issuing &#8220;video news releases&#8221; (i.e., fake-news segments) that do not clearly identify the government as the source. There was, however, a catch: the ban expires at the end of September. To get a permanent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}