hand over to you the papers from the thing they maintain that s called the public file. you would have to do that for all the local stations in your area in order to understand who was spending what in your media market in this election. so while this information is technically available, it was so cumbersome to get that mvgs, it as well not have been available at all. it was not available in a way it could be utilized to figure out who was funding the elections. now the fcc has changed that rule. the local stations public their public file online. the nbc affiliate in cincinnati for example did just that. last week they posted online this political advertising form filled out by the government integrity fund. remember them? and that s how we learned about the republican lobbying firm that the government integrity
change at the fcc. it used to be if you wanted to know who was spending how much on what ads at your local tv station you would have to in the car and get on the bus or ride your bike all the way physically to the tv station. you would have to ask them to hand over to you the papers from the thing they maintain that s called the public file. you would have to do that for all the local stations in your area in order to understand who was steng what in your media market in this election. so while this information is technically available, it was so cumbersome to get that mvgs, it as well not have been available at all. it was not available in a way it could be utilized to figure out who was funding the elections. now the fcc has chaked that rule. the local stations public their public file online. the nbc affiliate in cincinnati
know who was spending how much on what ads at your local tv station you would have to in the car and get on the bus or ride your bike all the way physically to the tv station. you would have to ask them to hand over to you the papers from the thing they maintain that s called the public file. you would have to do that for all the local stations in your area in order to understand who was steng what in your media market in this election. so while this information is technically available, it was so cumbersome to get that mvgs, it as well not have been available at all. it was not available in a way it could be utilized to figure out who was funding the elections. now the fcc has changed that rule. the local stations public their public file online. the nbc affiliate in cincinnati for example did just that. last week they posted online
him to issue the new purge rule without giving notice to or taking input from the public. he told them the usual notive and input are contrary to the public interest because they had to be in effect before the november 6 presidential election. so he s trying really quick like with no public oversight to purge the voter roll before the election. what could possibly go wrong? that s iowa. as long as we re talking shady new republican election rules in the swing states, we need to make a quick stop in ohio. for the past couple nights, we have been talking about a new partisan disaster in voting rights in ohio. now, the big news, don t pay attention controversy right now is republicans moving to cut off the three days of early voting. it s the change that was credited with the hours long voting line in 04 into something that resembled a
political speech can compete with commercial speech. and we can all learn about the issues and the candidates before the election. because there s a public interest at stake, because political advertising is regulated in a different way than commercial advertising, information about political ad buys on tv is public information. you have a right to know. you have a right to know who is spending how much money to put what ads on your local tv station. until recently, though, if you wanted to get that information, you had to physically go down to the office of your local tv station and ask them to see the physical papers from something called the public file. you could then copy that information down and then presumably, you could go to all of the other tv stations in your tv market to get the same information. you could aggregate that information as home, and then try to understand what was going on in your media market in terms of political advertising for that day. technically, the