Last week, the Republican National Committee unveiled an advertisement that invoked the specter of terrorism in an effort to win votes in the upcoming midterm elections. As Media Matters for America noted, the ad was given extensive media coverage, particularly by cable news networks, which replayed the ad again and again.

Today, the Democratic National Committee released an ad titled "Stay the Course," which details the failures of the Bush administration's Iraq policies, the administration's relentless insistence on “staying the course” over the last three years and its recent denials that it has ever supported such a policy.

Will news organizations that obligingly aired the RNC ad free of charge treat the Democrats' ad the same way?