It's Not An Attack Ad if It's True, and Other Things Partisans Say
Gerry Nicholls
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Posted 09.18.2012
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Canada Politics
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Whether or not you view a political ad as "negative" often depends on your partisan political point of view. The NDP recently released a negative T.V. attack ad that is so blatantly negative it almost comes across as an attack ad parody. Yet when I went on Twitter and described it as such, I was immediately met with protests. How can you ban something like attack ads when political partisans don't believe they exist?
