{"id":184123,"date":"2012-07-29T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/07\/29\/my-heart-bleeds-borscht-2\/"},"modified":"2012-07-29T19:05:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T00:05:00","slug":"my-heart-bleeds-borscht-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/07\/29\/my-heart-bleeds-borscht-2\/","title":{"rendered":"My Heart Bleeds Borscht"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TV stations are required under federal law to provide their lowest rates to candidates, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-07-26\/tv-stations-charge-super-gouge-ad-rates-for-super-pacs.html\">this does not apply to Super PACs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>To make his closing argument to Iowa voters on the day of the Jan. 3 caucuses, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney spent $1,000 to air a minute- long television ad during one of the Des Moines market\u2019s top- rated morning news programs.<\/p>\n<p>That same airtime on CBS affiliate KCCI-TV was in demand by a super-political action committee helping Romney, and Restore Our Future paid a 50 percent premium to place its commercial.<\/p>\n<p>Come September and October, when Romney and President Barack Obama, House and Senate candidates and dozens of outside political groups will be demanding ad space, super-PACs can expect stations to begin charging what Democratic media consultant Peter Fenn calls \u201csuper-gouge rates\u201d of as much as four times what candidates pay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStations are rabid for this money,\u201d said Kip Cassino, research director of Borrell Associates, which tracks the television industry and is based in Williamsburg, Virginia. \u201cThe super-PACs are like a kid with money burning a hole in their pocket.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While I am not a fan of the TV industry, I am still amused gouging the Super PACS and their rich pig backers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TV stations are required under federal law to provide their lowest rates to candidates, but this does not apply to Super PACs: To make his closing argument to Iowa voters on the day of the Jan. 3 caucuses, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney spent $1,000 to air a minute- long television ad during one of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1064,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-media","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}