Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When people see political ads, they think someone's lying to them.
When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn't about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.
Political commercials encourage the deceptive, the destructive and the degrading.
I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
If people ever talked the way advertising sounded, they would be put away.
As long as we, in the United States, continue to insist that our politicians have to spend all of their time raising millions of dollars for television ads, it will be corrupt. If we leave it up to the politicians to clean up lobbying and finance reform, nothing is going to change.
Advertising at its worst will be killed by the Internet. And rightly so.
If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless.
I think when a campaign is dishonest in the ads they run about another candidate, it diminishes the campaign, it diminishes the candidate, and it diminishes the presidency.
I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.