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10/31/2007: ""News" is often paid advertising"

The Toronto Star ran a huge advertising section promoting "anti-counterfeiting legislation" that attacks Canada's generic drugs and serves as a back door for DRM laws and Draconian copyright penalties -- but they ran it as news, even though they were "sponsored" by the Canadian Anti-Counterfeiting Network.The claims in the "article" were one-sided and ignored the rebuttals that the paper's own Michael Geist had published.

[ The mainstream media is a giant advertising funnel that labels itself "news entertainment" and has no real pretense of being serious news, except for its underpaid underlings, who justify being underpaid nobodies with the illusion that they're doing "serious journalism." Corporate bosses nod and smile, light another Cuban cigar. ]

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2332/125/