Re: OT: Scott Ridder on Fallujah

From: JeffM (jeffm__at_email.com)
Date: 11/15/04 

Date: 15 Nov 2004 14:19:56 -0800

>>>Electoral expenditure rules with teeth, so that multi-millionaires
>>>can't buy up TV time to push electoral misinformation into the brains
>>>of the couch potatoes.
>>> Bill Sloman
>>
>>Agreed, but I'd go farther than that.
>>As part of the licensing procedure for commercial broadcast stations
>>...free time during election years...for each/all of the candidates
>>who have managed to meet certain requirements; perhaps 100,000 signatures.
>> John Fields
>>
>I think that that is a terrible idea...because it makes it
>even more dificult to set up new political parties.
> Bill Sloman
>
Disagree. If you can't meet a minimun threshold,
perhaps you shouldn't be the one to carry the banner
...or you should refine your platform.

>90 second political advertisement...long enough to contain a simple message
>and short enough to fit into the attention span of the dumbest voter.
>
>Make them longer, and the vacuity of the message becomes obvious to
>the smarter viewers, while the dumber viewers tune out, which is why
>TV advertisers go for 90 second spots.
> Bill Sloman
>
All hail Sloman. Lead on!

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