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Who's Buying Your Election? New FCC Ruling Requires Broadcasters to Post Data On Ad Purchases

Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!. May 3, 2012.

A new ruling by the FCC requires broadcasters to post political advertisement data online, making it easier for the public to see who is buying those ads.

Will Information on Political Advertising Buyers Make it To the Public? Not if Industry Lobbyists Can Help It

Justin Elliott, ProPublica. April 16, 2012.

If a new rule passes, broadcasters would have to post information about who buys political ads and for how much on a new FCC website for the public.

GE Unleashes Propaganda Campaign To Hide Its Tiny Tax Burden and Mass Layoffs

Roger Bybee, In These Times. March 25, 2012.

GE paid an average of 2.3% in taxes over the last ten years, while slashing its US workforce by 32,000 jobs. But its new ad campaign aims to whitewash all that.

The 10 Dumbest, Most Offensive Political Ads in Recent Memory

Nicholas Pell, AlterNet. December 27, 2011.

Not a single election cycle goes by without some attempt to use fear of the "other" to win votes. Sadly, the results are sometimes successful.

Perpetual National Elections Make the Top 1% Richer

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com. December 11, 2011.

The presidential campaign season keeps getting longer, and more expensive, allowing the uber-rich to effectively control our democracy.

Sex Workers Speak Out on Village Voice Ad Controversy

Michelle Chen, In These Times. November 14, 2011.

Maybe the ethical clarity that moral crusaders desire requires less talking and more listening to what sex workers know, need and want.

Occupy TV Ads? The Branding of Occupy Wall Street

Justin Elliott, Salon. November 13, 2011.

Last week, the first Occupy Wall Street TV ad began airing on channels including Fox News and ESPN. Here's what the director of the ad has to say about it.

Hooked Up: Finding Casual Sex Through Online XXX Classifieds

Rachel Rabbit White, SeXis Magazine. March 3, 2011.

What happens in a casual hook-up with someone you only met online?

Does Kentucky Fried Chicken Own Your City's Fire Hydrants?

Jim Hightower, AlterNet. January 14, 2010.

Welcome to the latest reach by commercial hucksters to cover every square inch of America the Beautiful with ads.

Should We Ban Manipulative Marketing?

DaveJ, Open Left. July 29, 2009.

Marketers today are learning how to reach down into the wiring of the brain itself.

Nasty Ads and Shady Campaign Contributions Take Over Judicial Races

Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. June 12, 2009.

With 39 states now electing judges, the threat to impartial justice is frightening.

McCain Makes Moves to Run His Campaign on the Cheap

Sam Stein, Huffington Post. October 23, 2008.

McCain is playing the hand he's been dealt.

More Proposition 8 Ads from California

Alex Blaze, The Bilerico Project. October 17, 2008.

How the campaign for Prop 8 is building its case.

Whose Ad Is More Effective, McCain or Obama's?

Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake. September 15, 2008.

You decide.

McCain's Distortions: I'm John McCain and I Approve This Message

Robert Greenwald, Brave New PAC. September 11, 2008.

Video proof that McCain's ads are lies.

McCain's Ad Scam: Why Pay For What the Media Will Do For Free?

Steve Benen, Washington Monthly. August 27, 2008.

McCain isn't airing most of his ads, just sending them directly to a media all too willing to show them around.

Worst. Poltical Ads. Ever!

Brave New Films, Brave New Films. May 21, 2008.

Winning awards in categories like Improper Props, Guilt By Association, and Rated Sexxx, and more!

Super Bowl Ads: Sexy or Sexist?

Em & Lo, Daily Bedpost. February 6, 2008.

The best and the worst from the big game.

Republicans and phone sex

Evan Derkacz, October 23, 2006.

The next "egregiously stupid" attack ad...

New GOP ad threatens voters with destruction...

Evan Derkacz, October 20, 2006.

Americans don't agree... worldwide survey on torture...

Sex and Puppies: How Super Bowl Commercials Get Our Attention

James P. Othmer, December 31, 1969.


MoveOn.Org Hits GOP Candidates With Radio Ads

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Texas Christians Freak Out Over Atheist Bus Ads

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, December 31, 1969.


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