But it wouldn't be a law. I'm talking about a private agreement among all broadcast media to boycott these ads. If the boycott were upheld properly, Zero (or the guy running for county dogcatcher) could send negative attack ads to the broadcasters until they were blue in the face--they just wouldn't be aired!
But it wouldn't be a law. I'm talking about a private agreement among all broadcast media to boycott these ads. OK, fair enough. I'm all for private agreements.
But if I had a media company, a website perhaps, I'd not join the coalition of "all" broadcast media.
This is a large nation; many others would refuse to join such a coalition to boycott "negative" ads.
I, and many others, would gladly accept ads that tell the truth about someone like 0bamao.
And the truth might just be percieved as negative toward him !