The Dishonest Broker
Approaching two billion dollars and still climbing, that what the estimated spending will be for television political ads for this mid term. With that outlay, we must have the best informed electorate in our history, one would think. Not!
The commercials that are aired have little to do with truth and nothing at all to delivering an informed message. They have more in common with the circus barker who tries to beckon the passerby-er into his tent with half but intriguing truths. The TV industry, however, plays it both ways. On one hand they point out the negative content and with the other they count their profits.
There can be only one way to characterize this waste of two billion. It is a slap in the face of the American electorate. It says “we think you (the public) are stupid and these political ads will prove it”.
But that’s not all. If anyone thought that commercial TV had a public service bone in their bodies, that notion should be wiped clean from ones head.
This entry was posted on October 30, 2010 at 11:23 am and is filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Politics, Republican Party. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments.
Tags: congress, negative ads, television industry
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