[jwalsh07]

Here's the exception for the media. Does the first amendment allow dividing us into classes of citizens?

(B)EXCEPTIONS.—The term ‘electioneering communication does not include

(i)a communication appearing in a news story,commentary,or editorial dis tributed through the facilities of any broadcasting station,unless such facilities are owned or controlled by any political party,political committee,or candidate;or

Amazing huh?

[eaglebeak]

It's really nothing new though, unless you can show how somehow citizens or political organizations have somehow been silenced. We get all kinds of info from the media every day. We count on them to do that.

[Luis Gonzalez]

I don't want to get into an argument with you over this, it ain't worth it to me. I am trying to understand it (CFR), and I am a little baffled because what I am reading in the bill itself doesn't jive with what I've been reading in FR.

The term ‘electioneering communication does not include:

a communication appearing in a news story,commentary,or editorial dis tributed through the facilities of any broadcasting station,unless such facilities are owned or controlled by any political party,political committee,or candidate;or..."

Desn't that address the "freedom of the press" part of the 1st.?

I am still working my way through this bill looking for that section that stops me, as an individual, from buying issue ads 60 days before an election.