The Media Loophole

stupider and stupider:"bloggers want it both ways," said carol darr, head of the institute for politics, democracy and the internet at george washington university. "they want to preserve their rights as political activists, donors and even fundraisers -- activities regulated by campaign finance laws -- yet, at the same time, enjoy the broad exemptions from the campaign finance laws afforded to traditional journalists."she and others said they fear that giving bloggers those protections would create a legal loophole that corporations, unions and wealthy individuals could use to pour big money into politics. a company or union, for example, would be able to create or subsidize elaborate blogs attacking political candidates. or it could create hard-hitting web videos that, as the popular "ji...