Last Thursday, during my normal class time, Allison, Sara (two of my classmates) and I visited WISN-TV, which is Milwaukee's local ABC affiliate station. We were tasked with retrieving public documents detailing how much each candidate spent on campaign commercial spots in Milwaukee. Upon entering, we were greeted in a large lobby by the nice young lady at the front desk. They were very helpful, and more than willing to give us access to their records. Looking around the lobby, it was pretty neat seeing all the history, and awards (emmy's!) that the station had won. A helpful women escorted us to the area where we could find the public records and walked us through the process of finding the information we needed.
We were tasked with finding dollars spent by SuperPACs at WISN-TV, of which we found two: Restore our Future who backs Mitt Romney, and the Red, White and Blue fund who backed Santorum. The amounts shown spent by each detailed how much more money Romney was able to put into the election, spending nearly $200,000 at WISN-TV alone while Santorum spent just under $60,000.
The experience all in all was very beneficial and it was very neat being able to look through these public records and contracts on campaign dollars spent. We were able to also see the studios in which the news and other
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