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Ads Push the Factual Envelope: Misleading Claims Have Candidates Battling Caricatures

Date: October 20, 2004

Author: Howard Kurtz

QUOTE: In their stump speeches and attack ads, the candidates have moved beyond assailing -- critics would say distorting -- their opponents' positions and are setting up straw men that they enthusiastically knock down.

ABSTRACT: An ever-increasing barrage of advertising, coupled with the voting public's increasing unwillingness to spend time learning the issues, has led to an election campaign of greater misinformation (disinformation) about the candidates' real stands on issues than in any recent election.

--- Dan Doernberg

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Key People:

• President George Herbert Walker Bush
• Vice-President Albert "Al" Gore Jr.
• President George W. Bush
• Prof. Shanto Iyengar
• President William ("Bill") Jefferson Clinton
• Senator John F. Kerry

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• Washington Post Newspaper

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• Government & Politics / History
  • Politics (General)
    • Political Truthfulness

• Media & Journalism
  • Advertising: General
    • Advertising: Truth
  • Journalism: Ethics/Objectivity
    • Accuracy/Truth
  • Manipulation / Propaganda / Leaks

• North America
  • United States of America/USA

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