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The top-spent ad in the last 7 days included no targeting other than "nationwide, 18+." That seems folly, doesn't it? Huge waste?
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Nah, I think this one is just greed.
what caused this sudden change in greed? Were these actors not greedy before 2019?
From the insights tab, with a date range of the past year, the state where the second most ad money was spent was California (after Pennsylvania). California is not even close to being a swing state, afaik?
California has over 10 million people more than Texas. It’s huge, so absolute number comparisons are often confusing. As usual, XKCD (can’t find the comic) - https://x.com/xkcd/status/1339348000750104576?lang=en
The tweet quotes the alt-text of https://xkcd.com/2399/ “2020 Election Map”:
> There are more Trump voters in California than Texas, more Biden voters in Texas than New York, more Trump voters in New York than Ohio, more Biden voters in Ohio than Massachusetts, more Trump voters in Massachusetts than Mississippi, and more Biden voters in Mississippi than Vermont.
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Also media outlets are free to propagandize all day. You can't restrict that because we don't want to restrict freedom of the press. But then that begs the question, don't all companies and individuals have the same freedom of the press that media companies do?
This is the most shocking part from an outsider POV. In Europe* mainstream media must obviously be neutral about each candidate but also give the same amount of airing time to each candidate. So like if candidate 1 is invited for a 10 min interview, candidate 2 must be invited too and offered the same airing time. Meanwhile here Fox can just call Harris "stupid" (and CNN reciprocally call Trump whatever they want), l…
If there are three candidates polling about equal then okay, it's easy to be neutral. But what if they're |40, 35, 25| or |60, 20, 20| or |55, 40, 5|?
When does a minor candidate drop out of their neutrality? I'm not saying the general idea is bad but just pointing out that neutrality is kind of a vague concept. It's a bit like giving climate change deniers equal airtime with serious scientists.
Political advertising just makes democracy look like a total joke. If you can buy votes by shoving ads in peoples’ faces that’s not a democracy, that’s an oligarchy.
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Nah, I think this one is just greed.
what caused this sudden change in greed? Were these actors not greedy before 2019?
same thing with streaming. start out cheaper/more convenient/more comprehensive than traditional media - and an enormous market to grow into, so your shareholders are happy even with a reasonable price. wait a few years until you have saturated the market, and now the only way to achieve the holy growth is to raise the prices indefinitely.
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When one campaign raises 3 times as much money as the other campaign, that tends to happen.
Interesting that money is considered to have a large influence on US elections, one side has a lot more money, and yet the race is incredibly close.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bloomberg_2020_preside....
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Nah, I think this one is just greed.
what caused this sudden change in greed? Were these actors not greedy before 2019?
For the time being it’s back to the old way of screwing the public by over charging government for consulting work