October 30th, 2007 @ 12:37pm
Marc Giauque, KSL Newsradio
KSL Television is taking issue with a flyer that the company says implies Eyewitness News produced, or helped to produce, the pro-voucher ad.
The flyers center around a story aired in mid-October, aimed at putting some claims in the voucher debate to the "Truth Test."
A mailer being sent to voters thanks KSL and includes the company's logos. KSL Television News Director Con Psarras says the flyer suggests the station supports Referendum 1. "It's ironic that we do a ‘truth test,' the intent being to distinguish between spin and actual fact, and the people who like what we did in that story take our material and spin it out of context," Psarras said.
The station has now put a statement on KSL's Web site clarifying that the news department is taking no position, either for or against vouchers.
The flyers center around a story aired in mid-October, aimed at putting some claims in the voucher debate to the "Truth Test."
A mailer being sent to voters thanks KSL and includes the company's logos. KSL Television News Director Con Psarras says the flyer suggests the station supports Referendum 1. "It's ironic that we do a ‘truth test,' the intent being to distinguish between spin and actual fact, and the people who like what we did in that story take our material and spin it out of context," Psarras said.
The station has now put a statement on KSL's Web site clarifying that the news department is taking no position, either for or against vouchers.
The Statement
On October 17, 2007, KSL 5 Eyewitness News aired a report evaluating the truth of certain claims made in recent political advertisements. One portion of this report evaluated ads being aired by both proponents and opponents of Referendum 1. In the story, KSL took no position for or against Referendum 1, and no position either for or against Referendum 1 was intended to be implied by the story.
Recently, an organization that supports Referendum 1 sent out a direct mail flyer quoting portions of KSL's news story as support for that organization's views about Referendum 1. KSL believes that the flyer implies that KSL itself produced, or was at least involved in producing, the flyer. This is not the case.
Indeed, the KSL Editorial Board has aired an editorial stating that it is opposed to Referendum 1. KSL strongly encourages all citizens to carefully and independently research this and other political issues before casting their votes at the polls.
Recently, an organization that supports Referendum 1 sent out a direct mail flyer quoting portions of KSL's news story as support for that organization's views about Referendum 1. KSL believes that the flyer implies that KSL itself produced, or was at least involved in producing, the flyer. This is not the case.
Indeed, the KSL Editorial Board has aired an editorial stating that it is opposed to Referendum 1. KSL strongly encourages all citizens to carefully and independently research this and other political issues before casting their votes at the polls.
3 comments:
PCE is BUSTED! I wonder if they also handle Sen. Larry Craig's PR?
They have no credibility of their own so they have to bloodsuck those who do.
They are nothing but liars and manipulators. Referendum 1 is going down in flames!!!
If Richard Piatt has been truthful in his "Truth Test," or if they had broadcast a retraction, KSL wouldn't have this problem. For a news organization, they sure sound clueless about who they are dealing with!
What KSL really needs to do is retract the story. The story itself was "full of flaws".
PCE is now using it in a TV commercial as well. I'm surprised it's taken them this long . . .
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