Article: Newscasts take flak for flackery: Corporate ?news' releases shown without attribution by ONN, WSYX, report says.

Byline: Tim Feran

Apr. 11--An "epidemic of fake news infiltrating local television broadcasts" infected at least two Ohio media outlets in the past 10 months, a study reports.

In "Fake TV News: Widespread and Undisclosed," released last week, the Center for Media Democracy and Free Press blasted 77 TV newsrooms nationwide -- including the Ohio News Network and WSYX-TV (Channel 6) -- for having used all or part of video news releases created by corporate publicists without proper disclosure of the source. ONN and WSYX were each cited for one instance.

The study documented 36 video news releases and noted, "In almost all cases, stations failed to ...

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