"Tea Leaves" on How the FEC Will Come Down on Whether Bloggers Should Get the Press Exemption?

Adam Bonin sees some hints in the FEC's ruling on a complaint against CBS. Allison Hayward excerpts the most important statement in this MUR signed by 2 commissioners. An excerpt of that excerpt: "we can find no statutory, constitutional, or especially, policy justification that would deny the so-called press exemption to any periodical publisher of political news or views, whether publishing in print, by broadcast, or over the internet." See also this Washington Post report.

Posted by Rick Hasen at July 22, 2005 08:51 AM