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Tomorrow’s
\n New York Times has an interesting article about how the more ‘liberal’
\n sensibilities on the Web allow campaigns,
\n including both Bush and Kerry, to get away with more vicious attack
\n ads without facing damaging political backlast which has resulted in
\n the past from placing such ads on TV. <\/em><\/p>\n
\n is showing that it can act as a back alley – where punches can be thrown
\n and things can be said that might be deemed out of place, even if just
\n at a particular moment, in the full light of the mainstream media.<\/p>\n
\nwouldn’t dare to do in the mainstream media," said Jonathan Zittrain, a director
\nof the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.<\/p>\n
\ntelevision ad, let alone a positive one, because it is trying to cling to the
\ntranscendent trappings of the Rose Garden for as long as possible.\n <\/p>\n
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