Fake News. Created by Public Relations departments in businesses and government, fake news has been in the news recently and here are some new research results from the U.S.:

Dear Weekly Spin reader,

Just minutes ago, the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD)
published online our groundbreaking exposé, "Fake TV News:
Widespread and Undisclosed."

This multi-media report is the culmination of an intensive, ten
month investigation by CMD senior researcher Diane Farsetta and
research consultant Daniel Price. The report provides the most
extensive account to date of how corporate-funded video news
releases (VNRs) -- fake TV news -- are routinely aired, without
disclosure, as though they were independent news reports.

Read the report here:
http://www.prwatch.org/fakenews/execsummary

And then tell the Federal Communications Commission that fake news
must stop, by clicking here:
http://action.freepress.net/campaign/fakenews

We are presenting the report today (April 6) in Washington DC, at a
press conference with FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein and the
media reform group Free Press. We've also filed a formal complaint
with the FCC, calling for the 77 stations we caught airing fake TV
news to be held accountable. All such material must be disclosed,
to honor the audience's right to know!

Learn which TV stations we caught and watch footage of the VNRs we
tracked, plus see how TV newscasts incorporated them and/or related
satellite media tour "interviews." It's all here:
http://www.prwatch.org/fakenews/execsummary