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parties not allowed to buy tv advertising? That would take about 5 minutes to work around. just have a big party official retire, and become the head of a pub
by knodi123 11y ago
parties not allowed to buy tv advertising? That would take about 5 minutes to work around. just have a big party official retire, and become the head of a public organization which carefully avoids colluding with the party, while funnelling private donations into privately funded ads which merely explain why one candidate is better than the other.
- pjc50 11y agoThis doesn't happen in the UK, because the advertising standards body would spot it. I have never seen a paid political ad on UK television. They occasionally appear in newspapers. The UK press doesn't pretend to be independent though, and is very big on telling voters who to support.
- rdc12 11y agoIn NZ we have a similar system, but similar laws apply to non-party broadcasts, where unregistered groups or individuals an spend a small amount of money (~10k) and registered groups can spend something like 250k (the three largest parties get more then that each and the rest get less) If the ECC thinks you breached that they can take you to court, but the results will almost certainly stand.