[FormerACLUmember]

Another legal claim against the mass media deceivers:

With the campaign "reform" laws preventing unfettered private free speech (ads) we are reliant solely on the "unbiased" MSM in the final weeks of federal campigns. If that mass media can be proven to be biased, one theory might be to try to break it up under anti-trust laws.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

To the extent that "campaign finance reform" regulates "the press" (by which I mean, not "journalism" but any form of publishing which does not inherently depend on government favoritism), CFR violates the plain meaning of the First Amendment.

To the extent that it merely regulates broaddcasting, it is as constitutional as the FCC - which isn't saying much since an FCC license is an unconstitutional title of nobility. This long-running thread is IMHO an excellent resource for seeing through the self-serving fog put up by the Establishment Media.