Woooo! I’m Media!
In two determinations handed down yesterday, the US Federal Election Commission (FEC) found that political blogs and bloggers are media for the purposes of US Electoral Law.
The first case was a complaint against the well known left wing blog The Daily Kos. Conservative blogger John C.A. Bambenek claimed that the site should comply with campaign finance laws because it charges a fee to place advertising on its website and it provides ?a gift of free advertising and candidate media services? by posting blog entries that support candidates. The FEC determined that the website falls ?squarely? within the media exemption and is therefore not subject to federal regulation under the Act; ipso facto: under US law blogs are formally recognized as media organizations.
Read more at: FEC Determines That Blogs Count As Media (via TechCrunch)
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