Fake news broadcasts...

I don't remember hearing about the federal investigators looking into how the Bush administration created fake news that was to be distributed to local television stations at all last spring. Apparently TV news reports in America that showed President George Bush getting a standing ovation from potential voters have been exposed as fake, it has emerged. The US government admitted it paid actors to pose as journalists in video news releases sent to TV stations intending to convey support for new laws about health benefits. From an article in the Guardian as the New York Times piece has expired: