Public Interest Groups Prepare to Review TV Political Ad Files

Spending info goes online today

Public interest groups are practically salivating that starting today TV stations must begin posting online political disclosure files containing information about who is spending what in the 2012 election. And they're organizing to take full advantage of the more easily available information.

Since Citizens United, groups like Free Press have been apoplectic about the onslaught of Super PACs flooding the airwaves during the leadup to the November election, pushing political spending to new records. Now, with 95 days before the country heads to the polls, advocates for more transparency in political spending are taking some comfort in the Federal Communications Commission's new rule, which takes effect Aug.

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