Before revision: In response CBS adopted a policy requiring longer soundbites on the CBS Evening News.Howard Kurtz, “Media Notes,” Washington Post, July 7, 1992; Rick Schindler, “CBS Vows to Serve Up Chewier Sound Bites,” TV Guide, July 18, 1992Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky asserted in Manufacturing Consent that the CMPA, along with several other nonpartisan non-profit organizations, create "flak", which they define as "negative responses to a media statement or program" and which they maintain is part of a project of "disciplining the media."
After revision: In response CBS adopted a policy requiring longer soundbites on the CBS Evening News.Howard Kurtz, “Media Notes,” Washington Post, July 7, 1992; Rick Schindler, “CBS Vows to Serve Up Chewier Sound Bites,” TV Guide, July 18, 1992 Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky asserted in Manufacturing Consent that the CMPA, along with several similar organizations, create "flak", which they define as "negative responses to a media statement or program" which they maintained(1988) is part of a project of "disciplining the media."