A Sept. 18 Newsmax article by Jim Meyers reported on a Wisconsin Advertising Project study that found “‘Barack Obama aired more negative ads than his Republican rival John McCain last week.” But Meyers failed to note that the WAP’s definition of “negative” was any mention of the opponent’s name, that WAP didn’t measure the veracity of the ads, nor did it determine whether something was a personal attack or a policy attack.
Another Sept. 18 article, by Ashley Martella, uncritically quoted Republican operative Roger Stone citing the study without noting the full story behind it.