Slick: A Novel by Daniel Price

11/14/06: The Center for Media and Democracy has released Still Not the News, a follow-up report on video news releases. In this study, my co-author and I found 48 additional newscasts that passed off corporate PR video as unbiased TV journalism. Check it out.

9/8/06: The German version of SLICK is now available through Fischer Verlag. Notice the funky cover and change of title. Wunderbar!

4/17/06: I appeared on CNN's Reliable Sources to discuss the VNR issue with Howard Kurtz. By all accounts, it went extremely well. Much praise to CNN for choosing to cover this topic. You can watch the whole segment here in Quicktime or Windows Media Player format. (Clip is roughly 8 minutes long).

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For decades, local TV stations have been secretly padding their newscasts with fake journalism created by publicists on behalf of corporations. In a fascinating follow-up report, the Center for Media and Democracy has documented 54 additional instances of fake news usage across 46 TV stations. The site includes full Quicktime video of fake news in action. Read the report.