public relations folks spin doctors if you will driving in the circle and john nichols along with robert mcchesney wrote a book about it the death and life of american journalism in a sense we are becoming one of the most propagandized countries in the world short staffed news stations often use company video news releases or vienne ours like this one your characters are the first been filled up to five p.r. to skies as news the new prequel is called mimics press releases also often read on the air or posted on the web before any fact checking is done with the focus off and i'm getting it first rather than getting it right good evening everybody breaking news tonight but we are cutting into our program with some breaking news we're corporate and government p.r. departments are filled with former journalists who know how to sell their message they understood our media works what. reporters saw those good story as opposed to hype which ward worked for nearly twenty years as a journalist with the philadelphia inquirer but after layoffs he left to work for health insurer independence blue cross before