Under McCain Feigngold, corporations and unions are prohibited from the expenditure of their general treasury funds for any electioneering communications, that is advocacy for or against any candidate for federal office at times relevant to the influencing of potential voters. Sounds like the patriotic obligation of every citizen in our Republic.
Yet, the MSM uniformly supports this undemocratic limitation on political speech. Why you ask? Because the participation of corporations in attempting to sway voter sentiments is only "corrupting", and "venial" when it is done by other corporations. NY Times Corporation, NBC, MSNBC, ABC, Washington Post, etc, are all corporate entities that do whatever they possibly can to influence voters, but they have an exemption from McCain Feigngold as the benighted Fourth Estate. Journalist can never be constitutionally regulated, because of the protections set forth in the 1st Amendment.
Thank goodness, I am a recognized journalist myself.
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