That's actually fairly easy: the owner of the media outlet benefitted in some way.
"If it bleeds, it leads." was the mantra when I was learning/working in the industry.
It's not so much open fascism and more an obsession with getting to first place and staying there.
Investigative Journalism is vanishingly rare, especially when there's not a big payout for either the journalist or their workplace at the end of it.
Always have been.And every opponent they have should run that night and day. Not that it will do any good because the little letter by their names means more to some than literally anything else.
Political parties are a cult at this point.
*glares*With more than two parties it would be much less likely for one to be defined solely by being "not the other one", though.
I too want this, if only because I realize it would effectively mean politicians would just stop running ads altogether.Once again: he is a politician starring in a political add; there is LITERALLY nothing that requires him to tell the truth. No rules, laws, or anything. CAT LITTER has more oversight and less jive in it.
Someone should start a us goverment petittion to require political ads to adhere to truth in advertising laws.