Just saw a Kerry ad on the local Fox station! (It is carrying the baseball

[AlinPA]

game Fox 53, Pittsburgh) It was a paid ad. I thought Fox shut out Dems from ads on their network.

[Philostopher]

1. They've been doing a 'candidates speak' segment

on the FOX affiliate here in Dayton. One for Bush*, one for Kerry, alternating. Surprisingly, they didn't go out of their way to make Kerry look or sound bad. I think they know their audience during baseball -- it's probably about the most evenly divided audience for any sport, except maybe tennis. I know a lot of Dems play golf, but I don't know too many who watch it on TV.

[AlinPA]

3. This was a paid ad, not the "one minute" thing.

[Philostopher]

4. We missed that --

Mr. Nownow was switching back and forth between two FOX affiliates -- apparently, the one in Cincinnati is running infomercials instead of the NLCS games. They show on the cable grid that it's supposed to be the NLCS, but they're showing paid ads for exercise machines and beauty products.

They did show some candidate ads last night -- a couple of Kerry ads and some local GOoPers.

The weirdest one showed the other night, right at either the beginning or end of The Daily Show -- it was done in old 16-bit video game style graphics, talking about the draft, Iraq, the deficit and the way the Bush* Admin has kicked the crap out of college loans. It wasn't a DNC ad, it was one of the more 'hip' youth-oriented 527 orgs. It was really awful/stupid in exactly the way that will probably appeal to 18-to-30 people who might not otherwise feel motivated to vote. Not sure if that one was local or national either.

[txindy]

2. I saw that one, too, it must be national

I'm in Texas, but in the first few innings of the game, they played "Decision 2004" and Senator Kerry spoke for quite a while (for a commercial) about protecting our country and what needs to be changed. It was very good. And I was very surprised! Fox?! :shrug: