To make this information hit home: Imagine the amount of precious time and effort Kerry would fritter away when under pressure in a National Security Event.
America haters united against the republic.
Since Sept. 1, the Kerry camp has released and publicized more than half a dozen commercials, on subjects ranging from taxes to health care to the war in Iraq, without buying time for them, either nationally or in battleground states. Others have run in only one or two markets after being unveiled with considerable fanfare. In effect, these have been video news releases purporting to be substantial paid advertising.
"We're certainly not trying to be disingenuous," Tad Devine, a senior Kerry adviser, said yesterday. "We've announced that we've created these and are prepared to use them at a time and place of our choosing." He said the Kerry team had to be able to show Bush's campaign "that the gun is loaded on this side, too."
Evan Tracey, an analyst at TNSMI/Campaign Media Analysis Group, which tracks political advertising, called the phantom ads -- which have routinely been covered by The Washington Post and other news organizations -- "political product placement. But they're getting away with it, because the press is playing them. When the press covers a new Bush ad, the story always adds 'and Kerry released an ad of his own.' He's getting into the news chatter."
Mark McKinnon, Bush's media adviser, said the president's campaign has never announced an ad that has not run.
While the Kerry campaign has spent tens of millions of dollars on advertising this fall, Devine described a two-step process that has not been publicly disclosed. First, an ad is made and announced, and then the campaign does research -- including focus groups, people-meter groups and overnight tracking polls -- to determine whether the Bush attacks are working and whether the campaign should spend money on the response spot.
Why pay to have the ads aired when the MSM will air them for you for free?
While this demonstrates that the other side lies and cheats (we already knew that), it is bad news for us. It means they have a lot more money left for the last 10 days. It is consistent with past Kerry practice to unleash a torrent of ads at the end.
Well, it is kind of hard for us to complain about this, when the Swift Boat Veterns for Truth ads were played and discussed ten times more in the "free media" than they were actually shown in paid ads. Those ads changed the election. These silly little fake ads by Kerry are simply more evidence of their obsession with tactics while they are getting killed on substance.
It must be much cheaper to produce many advertisements for one or two airings each (free, compliments of the complicit media) than actually to pay for running a few advertisements many times each.
Maybe Bill Jones ought to try this tactic in CA, since I haven't seen or heard any ads from his campaign since the March Primary. Given that he's so far behind Boxer, maybe the local media can overlook his party affiliation.
Oh how we are so NOT surprised. ping
Further the media is now reporting phony polls showing the race a dead heat so as not to discourage kerry voters with the TRUTH. Their candidate is a loser.
Two of the Kerry ads released last weekend -- one attacking the Bush administration's handling of flu vaccine, the other accusing the president of a plan to slash Social Security benefits -- have not aired.
What did that accomnplish?
1. Now with Kurtz saying the Emperor has no clothes, the MSM will be hesitant to report further on Kerry Response ads (and will certainly issue disclaimers if they do) So Kerry has now alienated his most powerful sympathetic allies. and
2. This one ... the other accusing the president of a plan to slash Social Security benefits -- have not aired.
got play in the media, and DOZENS of newsstories pointing out the false hood of it, and not just in Conservative Journals.
If Kerry wins it will be IN SPITE OF his campaign...
What are the ads "talking points" for the intellectually shallow lefty liberal "journalists"? Wonder when they stopped responding to their written orders.
And Peter Jennings just don't get it ....
http://www.theomahachannel.com/politics/3833789/detail.html
Jennings: Media In Glaring Spotlight
Jennings Says Aim Is Objectivity, Fairness
POSTED: 5:02 pm CDT October 19, 2004
UPDATED: 5:32 pm CDT October 19, 2004
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- ABC news anchor Peter Jennings said he's getting an earful on media coverage.
Jennings is on a swing through battleground states, including Iowa and Missouri, where polls show the race could go either to President George W. Bush or Sen. John Kerry.
"I think one of the best reasons to go on the road is just to listen," Jennings told KETV NewsWatch 7's Rob McCartney during a stop in Kansas City, Mo., Monday.
Peter Jennings in Council Bluffs with Rob McCartney and Julie Cornell
Jennings gets questions about a CBS report on Bush's National Guard service, for which CBS news anchor Dan Rather later apologized and said the story was a mistake. He's also asked about Sinclair Broadcasting's decision to air a controversial documentary on Sen. John Kerry's Vietnam war record. Another big question regards an ABC internal memo from the political director suggesting that reporters need not "reflexively" hold both sides of the presidential election "equally" accountable.
Jennings said the media is now under the hot lights.
"I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective," Jennings said.
Jennings said that everyone -- even journalists -- have points of view through which they filter their perception of the news. It could be race, sex or income. But, he said, reporters are ideally trained to be as objective as possible.
"And when we don't think we can be fully objective, to be fair," the anchorman said.
Does the public think network news is fair? There are a number of opinion polls that show news consumers feel that the media does have a slant.
Jennings maintains those polls may be driven by groups with an agenda.
"There's a whole industry of conservatives saying, 'Ah, it's those damn liberals,' and a whole group of liberals saying, 'It's all those damn conservatives,'" Jennings said.
The problematic response, Jennings said, is the way people tailor the way they consume news.
"If you tailor your news viewing, as some people are now doing, so that you only get one point of view, well of course you're going to think somebody else has got a different point of view, and it may be wrong," Jennings
We'd appreciate it, if you just refrain from lying& frabricating stories to help your buddies while ignoring or taking out of context other stories to hurt those you dislike Mr Jennings
....FAIRNESSS? don't worry we don't expect that yet 8)