Swedish tv channel TV3’s news show Metronyheter aired a story last Sunday by the reporter Sophia Ragnar. Problem is, she doesn’t exist. TV3 claims it was a mistake, and that a name from a dummy was shown during the broadcast. Rather, it is typical that a reporter that doesn’t exist presents news that aren’t really news.
Category: Media & Journalism
New book about Bush PR strategies
Here’s a book that I want to read. Spinsanity will publish a book this fall called All the President’s Spin: George W. Bush, the Media and the Truth.
“All the President’s Spin will provide the definitive non-partisan account of the Bush administration’s unrelenting dishonesty about public policy. The book will demonstrate how the White House has broken new ground in using misleading sales tactics to promote its policies and manipulate the media.”
Slime Time
Mother Jones has a good analysis about how media with different political agendas react to the “sex rumours” about John Kerry.
“What’s a respectable media outlet to do when a story too juicy to ignore — but sleazy and unverified, and from a discredited, though occasionally accurate, source — starts making the rounds? Ignore it and miss the story? Pile on and look like scumbags when it turns out to be bogus?”