March 08, 2005

There Is No FEC Threat

Last week’s CNet article on The FEC’s crackdown on blogging sent knee’s a jerkin’ through the blogoshpere, perpetuating a virtual hissy fit. My first reaction, like many others, was to have a temper tantrum and call my senator. I’ve grown since then.

Amidst the confusion, there was a statement sent out last Friday by the Campaign Legal Center basically telling bloggers to calm down and breathe into a paper bag, because “There is no FEC threat to the Internet.”

The short of it is that it doesn’t make sense to regulate the blogoshpere even if it was possible. However, online political ads will surely be regulated next time around.

Read it here.

It was a very rational and accurate statement, however, we regret that it just hit the Web too late to make the news cycle. In PoliticsOnline’s situation, we published our weekly newsletter the PoliTicker before we found the statement from the CLC.

Sometimes the Rapid Response news cycle works on the side of chaos more so than on the side of better, timely information.

Posted by Buzz Webster at March 8, 2005 05:18 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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