It’s Official – We Is Media
Others may call us uninformed morons but the Federal Election Committee calls us media.
The Federal Election Commission announced today that it has unanimously resolved two complaints alleging that Internet blog activity is subject to Commission regulation, finding that the activity is exempt from regulation under the media or volunteer exemption.
In Matter Under Review (MUR) 5928, the Commission determined that Kos Media, L.L.C., which operates the website DailyKos, did not violate the Federal Election Campaign Act. The Commission rejected allegations that the site should be regulated as a political committee 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 Commission determined that the website falls squarely within the media exemption and is therefore not subject to federal regulation under the Act.
And honestly since the Wall Street Journal can’t fine us or send us to jail do we really care what they think? No!!!!! Seriously we are talking about a paper that in the 21st century still hasn’t mastered color pictures or including the comics. Even the lamest local paper can do that. Hopefully Murdoch will be swift and merciless in his conversion of the paper to tabloid format complete with page three girls.
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September 6th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
Do we really want to see scantily clad pictures of Maria Bartiromo?
Oh, wait, she works for a competitor.
Do we really want to see scantily clad pictures of Neil Cavuto?