Medical marijuana ad causes rampant confusion
A press release from the site MarijuanaDoctors.com claimed a low-budget ad would run in New Jersey. Comcast later confirmed it. None of it was true.
Reporters for news organizations, including ABC News, Time magazine and The Chicago Tribune, all published stories as if the press release was fact. A CNN newscast included a mention of the alleged pot ads, too. Even “NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams” covered the story, despite the fact that NBC is owned by Comcast, which explicitly denies that the ads ever ran on any of its cable systems.
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