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Ads Trump News: Local news viewers this fall were more likely to see campaign ads than election stories
Who profits from campaign finance? The people who profit are the country's commercial broadcasters.
That's right, the same people who control our most powerful gateways for news and information - the same people who, if they gave a hoot about the future of our imperiled democracy, should be clamoring most insistently for election finance reform.
The real corruption of the current system isn't of politicians, but of the media. Not only are media-owners lining their pockets with staggering windfalls of political advertising bucks, but those increases come at a time when broadcast news devotes less and less time to reporting on the campaign issues and political candidates.
[Perspectiva interessante: quanto menos os media falam dos políticos mais estes têm de investir em publicidade...]