Oregon Media Insiders

Maybe they think that TV journalism is not like print journalism.
Both print and WEB journalists have no problem with having their stories sponsored in the column next to their story.
For some reason this has become taboo in TV. I don't say this is all bad but I'm old enought to remember the John Swazey "camel caravan". Edward R. Murrow with a pack of camels on the desk beside him and the lead-in telling viewers who the sponsor was. Local anchors with sponsor logos on the front of their desk.
Did this make any less journalists than those in print?
No!
But it gives present day anti-TV journalists an opportunity to complain.
I have seen none of this product placement on the air during newscasts but that does not seem to stop people from complaining about it.
Until it happens, STOP!