Changes

In the 9:30 pm newscast on August 16, 2006, NY1 aired a segment by health and fitness reporter Kafi Drexel; more than half of NY1 segment was video from an [[American College of Physicians]] VNR. The station did add a brief on-screen label reading "Amer. Coll. of Physicians" to the segment. However, as noted in As the Center for Media and Democracy 's November 2006 report "Still Not the News"describes: [http://www.prwatch.org/fakenews2/vnr44]:More than half of the NY1 segment came from the American College of Physicians VNR, including a soundbite from the study's lead author, Dr. Michael Shlipak. He linked results from the kidney test to patients' susceptibility to heart disease, heart attacks and strokes. :In addition to the edited and re-voiced VNR, the NY1 segment included two soundbites from an interview conducted by the station, with Dr. Morton Kleiner of Staten Island University Hospital. Kleiner served as a counter-balance to the VNR's glowing coverage of the kidney test, saying that newer test approaches "may be better." He also suggested that overall health monitoring might be the most useful approach to managing kidney disease and related problems—a stunningly common sense argument not mentioned in the original VNR. ... :In addition to including Kleiner's independent assessment, NY1 disclosed the VNR to its viewers—sort of. :Most of the aired segment came from the VNR, but an on-screen label reading "Amer. Coll. of Physicians" only appeared briefly in the opening frames. Given the ambiguous and fleeting nature of this disclosure, viewers—if they noticed the label at all—likely assumed that just a few seconds of footage came from an outside source. No reasonable person (who didn't have access to the original VNR) would conclude that the majority of the segment actually came from a PR firm.