Many ads sponsored by the presidential candidates and political action committees have misstated the facts so blatantly that no sensible voter can believe much of what is being said anymore. It’s time to put an end to all these attempts at trying to fool the American people, who I believe are much wiser than the candidates believe.
Here’s what I propose: Create a law that requires all media channels (TV, radio, newspapers, billboards, etc.) to fact-check the ads before they are air. If a media channel airs a nonfactual ad, it would be required to correct misstatements in the same manner and time slot as the original ad, at the expense of the media channel.
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Nice idea, but not too practical. Can you imagine Google to fact-check every single online ad they sell (not just political ones)? Every print magazine and tiny radio station? They simply don't have resources for that.
They require a fact check fee in addtion to normal air time fee.
DREAMER....winners win by lying.....promises never kept......and enough people believe them.....look at the election results......the party in power has the power.......to continue on unchallenged ......the once honest moralistic beliefs have evaporated with democracy. Its now Liberal Progressive Socialism ..... anything is ok....sad state of affairs......
An unkept promise and a campaign lie are not the same thing.
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Make the group responsible for the inaccuracy pay for the revised ad and the cost of the media's efforts in finding it inaccurate. Why burden the media with someone else's inaccuracy?
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