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Rachel Anderson Utne.com 
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With increasingly nasty campaign ads now commonplace on the airwaves, little is being done to help viewers see through the muck to the issues at hand. Larry Hansen, vice president of the Joyce Foundation, which bankrolls MNI, bemoans local news efforts, alleging in the group's press release on the study, that they've 'failed in their responsibility to provide an adequate amount of substantive election coverage, which might have helped counterbalance the waves of negative ads.' The outlook doesn't have to be dire, though, the Online Beat's Nichols argues. He calls on citizen groups to challenge the broadcast license renewal of local stations, and for legislators to require broadcasters to offer free airtime to candidates. Otherwise, as Hansen puts it, 'well funded candidates and local broadcasters win while voters, most candidates, and democracy lose.'

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