Issue advocacy ads (also known as interest advocacy ads or issue only ads) are communications intended to bring a problem to light. Groups that sponsor this form of communication are known by several names including: interest advocacy group, issue advocacy group, issue only group, or special interest group. The problem these groups bring to light can be a social or political issue.
The definition of what constitutes interest advocacy was of primary importance in the United States around elections. Many groups were prohibited from expressly telling voters how they should vote.
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“Public administrators would get along better if they would restrain the impulse to butt in or be dragged into trouble. They should remain silent until an issue is reduced to its lowest terms, until it boils down into something like a moral issue.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)