Update: Happy News on the VNR Front!

You might remember the previous post I did about the fake news/covert propaganda pieces called VNRs (video news releases). Well, thanks to the Center for Media and Democracy study on VNRs which I described in that post, the FCC has now sent letters to 77 different television stations "[asking] station managers for information regarding agreements between the stations and the creators of the news releases. The FCC also asked whether there was any 'consideration' given to the stations in return for airing the material." Snap!

The same day that I found out about this on the Huffington post, I also found on the same site that a federal judge had ruled Bush's NSA program of warrantless wiretapping to be unconstitutional. As the judge herself put it, "there are no hereditary Kings in America and no powers not created by the Constitution." Snap!

Anyway, see you on August 26th with a fresh post.