[LINK] The Internet and the Election - no blackout

[Stilgherrian]

On 19/10/07 12:10 PM, "Howard Lowndes" <lannet at lannet.com.au> wrote:
> 
> Stilgherrian wrote:
>>  1. Why does the blackout only apply to ³electronic media²? Are we
>>     really so vulnerable? Or is this just a 50-year-old echo of the ³moral
>>     panic² that accompanied that dangerous new medium of television?
> 
> What is the Internet if it is not "electronic media"?

Correct, but that question is about why, say, newspaper advertisements are
banned in the same way -- independent of whether The Internet should be
included in the ban.

I probably should have excepted more of my piece.

http://stilgherrian.com/politics/political_advertising_blackout_loophole/

If the issue is about banning advertising (of some kinds) because we need a
"cooling off period" to think about our choices, why would there be a
difference between "push" and "pull"?

I see this as a very different question from the one about "push" being
"annoying" -- and a spurious one. The TV has an off switch, and so does your
computer.

Stil


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