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Bloggers Win Before the FEC |
| Published: September 4, 2007, 6:31 pm |
| Tags: fec, federal election commission, campaign finance, daily kos, blogs, michael grace, markos moulitsas |
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Ah, summer, the time for daydreams, like when BlogCritics.org's John Bambenek believed he could haul DailyKos before the Federal Election Commission and have a hearing where he'd prove that we were violating the law by failing to register as a political committee. Vacation's over, and the FEC has unanimously determined that DailyKos qualifies as a media entity under federal law, and thus none of the site's expenditures count under federal law for determining whether a political committee was formed. Just like a newspaper isn't charged with making a campaign contribution by editorializing on behalf of a candidate, neither is this site: Kos Media qualifies as a media entity in its function of operating DailyKos. DailyKos is available to the general public and is the online equivalent of a newspaper, magazine, or other periodical publication as described in the Act and Commission regulations. Additionally, DailyKos is precisely the type of online media presence the Commission [ Full article ] |
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