By: Alyssa Richard

Candidates have a legal right to lie to voters just about as much as they want.

FTC

Protects consumers from false advertisement

Constitution

Protects politician’s rights to freedom of speech

Forced stations in Atlanta to broadcast an ad thought to be offensive

NAACP objected to an ad that proclaimed the

“main reason why n--- want integration is because n--- want our white women”

-JB Stoner

FCC sided with Stoner protecting his “freedom of speech”

Negative Advertising

became an issue after the 1980s

attack an opponent’s personality, record or opinion

creating the impression that one is soft on criminals, dishonest, corrupt, or a danger to the nation

leaking damaging information to the media

--Kenneth Goldstein

http://www.factcheck.org/specialreports/false_ads_there_oughta_be_a_law.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_campaigning

http://www.news.wisc.edu/14606