[EL] newspaper running/buying candidate ad?

[Bill Sherman]

I think you're exactly right.  The other interesting aspect of this is that,
run as an ad, this expenditure triggers a reporting requirement to the state
Public Disclosure Commission.  Run as an editorial endorsement, no reporting
required.

 

Bill Sherman

 

 

 

From: Sean Parnell [mailto:sean at impactpolicymanagement.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 10:53 AM
To: 'Bill Sherman'; law-election at uci.edu
Subject: RE: [EL] newspaper running/buying candidate ad?

 

This raises an interesting question - pre-Citizens United would the Times
have been able to run that very same ad in the very same spot, only
replacing the 'paid for by' language with something along the lines of 'an
editorial endorsement by the publisher of the Seattle Times'? I'd assume so
- there's no particular reason I can think of that a newspaper couldn't
repeat its endorsement elsewhere in the newspaper, and do so in a different
format.

 

Sean Parnell

President

Impact Policy Management, LLC

6411 Caleb Court

Alexandria, VA  22315

571-289-1374 (c)

sean at impactpolicymanagement.com

 

From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu
[mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Bill
Sherman
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 1:38 PM
To: law-election at uci.edu
Subject: [EL] newspaper running/buying candidate ad?

 

Readers of this list may be interested in something in today's Seattle
Times.  On page B6, among bank and Wal-Mart ads and between the comics and
the obits, the Times ran a full-page color ad supporting a candidate for
governor (the same one the paper endorsed).  The ad was paid for by the
Seattle Times Co.

 

That's the first time I can remember seeing a significant IE paid for by a
regular mainstream media outlet, run in its own pages (or bandwidth, or air
time).  I'm curious whether I've been missing this occurring elsewhere.
Have you seen this in your markets?  (please spare me the Fox News & MSNBC
comments).


Bill Sherman

 

 

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