Expert says misleading ads on the way in presidential season
The presidential election campaign season will really ramp up with ads strategically set to run during the summer olympics. A recent study from Penn’s Annenberg Center for Communications cautions consumers to bewary of the “truthiness” of those messages. Kathleen Hall Jamieson, of Annenberg, says PACS that don’t support a single candidate frequently use deceptive advertising because no one person is accountable for the accuracy of the ads. Dave Heller interviewed her on NewsWorks Tonight.
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