Information, news,public relations and propaganda. What are the differences between them? Try to think about this and define what each of the headings ie. info, news, etc. means.
GOVERNMENT PR: YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK
http://federaltimes.com/index.php?S=2060330
"Agencies across government are under increasing pressure to sway
public opinions -- either to win funding from Congress, to satisfy
customers, to recruit new employees, to educate the public about new
programs, to minimize fallout from controversial policies," writes
Mollie Ziegler. With more U.S. federal agencies "applying
sophisticated public relations tools and tactics," government
spending on PR and marketing services skyrocketed from $39 million
in 2001 to more than $400 million for 2006 to date. For example, the
Federal Aviation Administration "hired a PR consultant last year to
help it put a more positive face on its decision to outsource 2,500
jobs, the biggest outsourcing deal yet by an agency." The Defense
Department hired consultants to survey college students, to improve
their branding and recruiting materials. And agencies are still
putting out video news releases, though the Government
Accountability Office ruled that segments that don't make their
government source clear are illegal covert propaganda.
SOURCE: Federal Times (U.S.), August 28, 2006
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| Fake News Stories Probed |
| from the truthiness dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 16, @20:24 (The Media) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/16/2327242 |
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An anonymous reader writes "From the article: "The U.S. Federal
Communications Commission has begun an [0]investigation of the use of
video news releases, sometimes called "fake news," at U.S. television
stations. Video news releases are packaged stories paid for by businesses
or interest groups. They use actors to portray reporters and use the same
format as television news stories.""

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