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Pre-filled Bill S. 0128 removes political party’s notification requirement
This bill takes out the requirement for political parties to place ads in the newspaper when the information is posted on party’s web site. Currently, all political parties in each county are required to purchase ads in a newspaper with daily circulation for things like candidate filing, precinct reorganization, etc. I would like to end this requirement if the party posts these announcements on the party’s website. The requirement has good intentions, but in the day of electronic notification, we would all agree that this is an obsolete obligation.http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/128.htm
December 28th, 2006 at 5:23 am
I am not so sure about this Kevin. I would like to keep them posting it in the paper.
December 28th, 2006 at 5:23 am
I am not so sure about this Kevin. I would like to keep them posting it in the paper.
December 29th, 2006 at 9:07 pm
Given some of the jackadation as practiced by the print media, e.g. demanding a cashier’s check from one side of the aisle, while discreetly accepting a business check from the other party for legally required advertisements, this isn’t a bad idea. It does dangle an incentive for fairer treatment by a print media that is becoming more irrelevant by the day.
It also offers an ability to be certain of placement of the announcements, without a complicitious, “Aw geez, we just didn’t have the space to slip your ad in… is there a stroy for us to manufacture about your local party organization’s failure to comply with the law’s requiring these ads being in the paper on or by this specific date?”
Editorial boards have a capacity to be that petty, take as an example the Post-Courier in Charleston “errantly” adding a sticker endorsing one slate of School Board candidates to the front page as a freebie. To make amends, they printed a free ad, somewhere back around the obits, for Arthur Ravenel’s “A-Team”
Ethics and journalism, ’tain’t here!
December 29th, 2006 at 9:07 pm
Given some of the jackadation as practiced by the print media, e.g. demanding a cashier’s check from one side of the aisle, while discreetly accepting a business check from the other party for legally required advertisements, this isn’t a bad idea. It does dangle an incentive for fairer treatment by a print media that is becoming more irrelevant by the day.
It also offers an ability to be certain of placement of the announcements, without a complicitious, “Aw geez, we just didn’t have the space to slip your ad in… is there a stroy for us to manufacture about your local party organization’s failure to comply with the law’s requiring these ads being in the paper on or by this specific date?”
Editorial boards have a capacity to be that petty, take as an example the Post-Courier in Charleston “errantly” adding a sticker endorsing one slate of School Board candidates to the front page as a freebie. To make amends, they printed a free ad, somewhere back around the obits, for Arthur Ravenel’s “A-Team”
Ethics and journalism, ’tain’t here!