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[William Gillespie]

but the accountability office said on Friday: "The prepackaged news 
stories are purposefully designed to be indistinguishable from news 
segments broadcast to the public. When the television viewing public 
does not know that the stories they watched on television news programs 
about the government were in fact prepared by the government, the 
stories are, in this sense, no longer purely factual. The essential 
fact of attribution is missing."