{"id":4596,"date":"2012-02-24T21:13:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T03:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=4596"},"modified":"2012-02-24T21:13:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T03:13:35","slug":"take-action-on-superpacs-and-misleading-advertising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/take-action-on-superpacs-and-misleading-advertising\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Action on SuperPACs and Misleading Advertising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/billmoyers.com\/content\/take-action-making-tv-stations-do-the-right-thing\/\">Take Action on SuperPACs and Misleading Advertising<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>TV and radio stations are required to air political ads from candidates for federal office, Jamieson points out, but that rule doesn\u2019t apply to third-party advertising; station managers run those at their own discretion. <font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">Jamieson is calling on regular citizens to encourage their local TV stations to <strong>reject misleading political ads<\/strong>.<\/font> But can conscience defeat cash? Jamieson\u2019s website, <a href=\"http:\/\/flackcheck.org\/\">Flackcheck.org<\/a>, makes it easy for users to <a href=\"http:\/\/services.flackcheck.org\/contact-stations\/\">contact their local station managers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Watch <a href=\"http:\/\/billmoyers.com\/guest\/kathleen-hall-jamieson-2\/\"><strong>Kathleen Hall Jamieson<\/strong><\/a> of the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org\/\">Annenberg Public Policy Center<\/a> make her case [at the link].<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/billmoyers.com\/content\/take-action-making-tv-stations-do-the-right-thing\/\">Take Action on SuperPACs and Misleading Advertising<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take Action on SuperPACs and Misleading Advertising TV and radio stations are required to air political ads from candidates for federal office, Jamieson points out, but that rule doesn\u2019t apply to third-party advertising; station managers run those at their own discretion. Jamieson is calling on regular citizens to encourage their local TV stations to reject &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/take-action-on-superpacs-and-misleading-advertising\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Take Action on SuperPACs and Misleading Advertising<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4597,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596\/revisions\/4597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}