|
I agree, dc dux, it's not something that is likely to be effective this election cycle.
I wasn't proposing that people do a retroactive boycott, if that's how my comments were understood.
But I'd like to start working on this project because I think the thirst is there by many people to do *something* about the state of political adverts and now seems to be the time to reach out to them and start growing a base. Let's keep in mind that in two years we will see some of this crap, and in four years we will definitely have to deal with it again.
I like the sense of your ideas, much more than any kinds of attempts to censor the content of ads via government. I like the duel adverts idea, but layered on top of private censor to ratchet down the mudslinging. I've got to think more....but I am thinking long term.
__________________
"The theory of a free press is that truth will emerge from free discussion, not that it will be presented perfectly and instantly in any one account." -- Walter Lippmann
"You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists." -- Abbie Hoffman
|