The American University of Beirut (AUB) is a private,non-sectarian,and independent university chartered in New York with its campus in Beirut,Lebanon. AUB is governed by a private,autonomous board of trustees and offers programs leading to bachelor's,master's,MD,and PhD degrees.
"Daisy",sometimes referred to as "Daisy Girl" or "Peace,Little Girl",is an American political advertisement that aired on television as part of Lyndon B. Johnson's 1964 presidential campaign. Though aired only once,it is considered one of the most important factors in Johnson's landslide victory over the Republican Party's candidate,Barry Goldwater,and a turning point in political and advertising history. A partnership between the Doyle Dane Bernbach agency and Tony Schwartz,the "Daisy" advertisement was designed to broadcast Johnson's anti-war and anti-nuclear positions. Goldwater was against the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and suggested the use of nuclear weapons in the Vietnam War,if necessary. The Johnson campaign used Goldwater's speeches to imply he would wage a nuclear war.
Negative campaigning is the process of deliberately spreading negative information about someone or something to worsen the public image of the described. A colloquial,and somewhat more derogatory,term for the practice is mudslinging.
In political campaigns,an attack ad is an advertisement designed to wage a personal attack against an opposing candidate or political party in order to gain support for the attacking candidate and attract voters. Attack ads often form part of negative campaigning or smear campaigns,and in large or well-financed campaigns,may be disseminated via mass media.
Judy Baar Topinka was an American politician and member of the Republican Party from the U.S. State of Illinois.
The "Stand By Your Ad" provision (SBYA) of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act,enacted in 2002,requires candidates in the United States for federal political office,as well as interest groups and political parties supporting or opposing a candidate,to include in political advertisements on television and radio "a statement by the candidate that identifies the candidate and states that the candidate has approved the communication". The provision was intended to force political candidates running any campaign for office in the United States to associate themselves with their television and radio advertising,thereby discouraging them from making controversial claims or attack ads.
The 2006 Michigan gubernatorial election was one of the 36 U.S. gubernatorial elections held November 7,2006. Incumbent Democratic Governor of Michigan Jennifer Granholm was re-elected with 56% of the vote over Republican businessman Dick DeVos and three minor party candidates.
In politics,campaign advertising is the use of an advertising campaign through the media to influence a political debate,and ultimately,voters. These ads are designed by political consultants and political campaign staff. Many countries restrict the use of broadcast media to broadcast political messaging. In the European Union,many countries do not permit paid-for TV or radio advertising for fear that wealthy groups will gain control of airtime,making fair play impossible and distorting the political debate in the process.
Jeanine Basinger is an American film historian who retired in 2020 as the Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies,and Founder and Curator of The Cinema Archives at Wesleyan University,Middletown,Connecticut.
Catherine Tucker is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management at MIT Sloan,where she is also chair of the PhD program. She is known for her research into the consequences of digital data for electronic privacy,algorithmic bias,digital health,social media and online advertising. She is also a research associate at the NBER,cofounder of the Cryptoeconomics lab at MIT with Christian Catalini and coeditor at Quantitative Marketing Economics.
Jane Philpott is a physician,academic administrator,and former Canadian politician who represented the riding of Markham—Stouffville in the House of Commons. Philpott was first elected in the 2015 federal election as a member of the Liberal Party and was appointed to the Cabinet of the 29th Canadian Ministry,headed by Justin Trudeau,on November 4,2015. On March 4,2019,Philpott resigned from her cabinet position as President of the Treasury Board over the SNC-Lavalin affair. On April 2,2019,she and Jody Wilson-Raybould were both expelled from the Liberal caucus in the aftermath of the controversy.
Kelly Convirs-Fowler is an American politician. Since 2018,she has served in the Virginia House of Delegates,representing district 21. She was first elected in November 2017.
Martha Scott Gilmore is an American planetary geologist. She is the George I. Seney Professor of Geology and Director of Graduate Studies at Wesleyan University.
Amy Leigh Acton is an American physician and public-health researcher who served as the director of the Ohio Department of Health from 2019–2020. She played a leading role in Ohio's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Shana Alyse Kushner Gadarian is an American political scientist,political psychologist,and educator. She is the Merle Goldberg Fabian Professor of Excellence in Citizenship and Critical Thinking and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University. Her co-authored book Anxious Politics:Democratic Citizenship in a Threatening World received the Robert E. Lane Award for being the best book in political psychology published in 2015.
Liza Makowski Hayes is an American nutritional biochemist. As a professor at the University of Tennessee,her research focuses on how metabolic stress and inflammation alters the progression of diseases,specifically obesity and cancer.
Ruth Helene Striegel Weissman is a German-American psychologist who specializes in eating disorders. She is the Walter A. Crowell University Professor of the Social Sciences,Emerita,at Wesleyan University.
Nandini Jammi is an American activist and brand safety consultant. She is a co-founder of the Check My Ads agency and associated non-profit Check My Ads Institute. Previously,she co-founded Sleeping Giants. She informs businesses about their advertisements that appear on conservative websites that she describes as bad faith publishers—websites that publish misinformation or conspiracy theories,or engage in advertising fraud—and pressures them to stop supporting those publishers.
The Check My Ads Institute is an organization founded by Nandini Jammi and Claire Atkin. The Check My Ads Institute is a non-profit advertising watchdog organization created in October 2021,which aims to do deeper investigative research into the advertising technology industry. Jammi and Atkin also publish a newsletter called Branded. The Check My Ads Agency was a brand safety and marketing consultancy that Atkin and Jammi founded in 2020. As of February 2023,the Check My Ads Agency is no longer active.
