Studio settlement reported for fake movie news

Universal Pictures has agreed to pay $20,000 to the Alaska Press Club to settle complaints about fake news archives used to promote the movie "The Fourth Kind," the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported.

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Poll: Who is your favorite television "fundit?"

I remember a time when "fake news shows" were nothing more than humorous slants on what were essentially funny stories to begin with. Back when Craig Kilborn hosted the Daily Show, he wasn't taking on world-changing events with a pocket full of jokes.

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Note: This article is satire, but it should be true.In a stunning turnaround, the allegedly "Fair & Balanced" cable news channel run by Rupert Murdoch may soon willingly add a satire disclaimer to their site, stating that all news is fabricated and meant only for humorous eff …

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Attention Daily Show and Colbert Report fans

At the end of tonight's Daily Show Jon Stewart said they are going on a 3 week hiatus. That pretty much means Colbert will be off for 3 weeks too. Need your help here. I don't want to just be relegated to whatever old Daily Show/Colbert Report episodes they air on TV.

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Health Expert to Stop Eating Altogether [Satire]

SALEM, Oregon (Whacked Planet) – Marcy Kerry stopped eating unhealthy food twenty years ago and now she plans to stop eating altogether. Claims Ms. Kerry, "Eating is just not healthy anymore."

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Is Mrs. Lou Dobbs an Illegal Immigrant?

After exhaustive research I have found that Lou Dobbs' wife may not be residing in the United States legally. Debi Lee Segura has been "married" to Lou for some 25 years.

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Anti-Immigrant, Bigot, bigots, Bill O'Reilly, Bill O'wino, Debbie Segura Dobbs, Debi 'Segura' Dobbs, Dr.

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In the olden days when shoes were a luxury and smallpox was a right of passage, men like William Randolph Hearst used their complete control over communication airwaves to tell the general populace whatever lie happened to be convenient (see marijuana is evil) or interesting (see …

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Turkish-Canadian Plots to Control Americans Through Beer

On Tuesday April 7th, 2009 a Turkish Canadian flew a stolen flight school aircraft from Thunder Bay Ontario to Elsinore, Missouri. He was trailed by Wisconsin Air National Guard for approximately five hours. The plane landed and was abandoned on a highway in Elsinore, Missouri.

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Interesting article on news, demographic and the influence of different media on current events.

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President Obama Accidentally Converts to Islam

In brazen display of political stupidity, America's latest president Barack Obama accidentally converted to Islam while conversing with Muslim leaders earlier today.

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In an elaborate hoax, pranksters distributed thousands of free copies of a spoof edition of The New York Times on Wednesday morning at busy subway stations around the city, including Grand Central Terminal, Washington and Union Squares, the 14th and 23rd Street stations along Eig …

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The filmmaker Peter Watkins is legendarily unknown. His movies are virtually never shown, except at rare cine­phile screenings, museum retro­spectives, and lefty campus events.

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The combination of a rush to publish and a low barrier to entry for microblogging makes posting quick notes to Twitter extremely tempting for people who are trying to break news. In seconds, a rumor can be launched, whether true or not, and hit thousands.

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Semiosis of conceptualist art

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The Clinton campaign's latest tactic in Ohio is, apparently, a radio ad that tries to make listeners think it's a news report until the very end. ... Here's the script:

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NEW YORK— As evidenced by the hundreds of newspaper clippings of various presidential candidates glued to his bedroom walls and ceiling, Vietnam veteran Dale Patrick Seaver, 52, is clearly an informed voter.

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For the first time in human history, there is a concerted strategy to manipulate global perception. And the mass media are operating as its compliant assistants, failing both to resist it and to expose it.

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The striking writers behind Jon Stewart's fake news show and Stephen Colbert's fake talk show came here to explain to real lawmakers Wednesday a strike that has crippled creative television and threatens to wreck the Oscars.

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This is so true. I can't count how many hours I spent chasing stories that were totally bogus and spread like gossip

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Free Press and the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) have revealed that corporate propaganda continues to infiltrate local television news across the country. Stations are slipping corporate-sponsored "video news releases" or VNRs — promotional segments designed to look …

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Like its forerunners, the FEMA fakery isn't just spin but something worse. It's government-sponsored propaganda. When the Chinese and other global miscreants practice it, we condemn it.

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A fake news conference at the Federal Emergency Management Agency has produced, along with outrage and ridicule, its first personnel casualty.

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News outlets including CNN, the Associated Press, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times uncritically quoted White House spokeswoman Dana Perino's response to a question about an October 23 Federal Emergency Management Agency press conference, in which …

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The White House scolded the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Friday for staging a phony news conference about assistance to victims of wildfires in southern California.

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On Tuesday, while "wildfires raged" in California, Vice Adm. Harvey E. Johnson, the deputy administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), held a press conference at FEMA's Southwest D.C.

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