April 6.2006

CWA Building, First Floor, 501 3rd St. NW
Washington, 20001

FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein, the Center for Media and Democracy and Free Press will hold a press conference to discuss the findings of a new report exposing "video news releases" packaged as TV news.

The results of a 10-month investigation by the Center for Media and Democracy into the current epidemic of VNRs being presented as real news stories on local TV stations across the country will be presented.