Tampa television stations are having a banner year with the revenue received from airing political ads. But a new report assails these local stations and stations in other key broadcast TV markets for failing to report on the Super PACs that are producing many of the ads, as well as whether the ads are factual or not.
Left in the Dark: Local Coverage in the Age of Big-Money Politics was recently written by Timothy Karr with the media activist group Free Press. It focuses on broadcast stations in Tampa, Charlotte, Cleveland, Las Vegas and Milwaukee — the biggest media markets in five of the most important battleground states where the presidential campaign is being contested.
This article appears in Sep 20-26, 2012.
