Instapundit Points To Good New For Bloggers
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Blogging, General PoliticsGlenn has the story. Emphasis mine.
The commission, which is evenly split between Republicans and Democrats and needs a majority vote to approve new policy, is expected to decide the issue this fall. Ellen L. Weintraub, one of the Democratic commissioners, said the FEC appears to have all but decided against regulating bloggers and is now hashing out what, if anything, it needs to do to protect them against government oversight. The FEC could give all bloggers the media exemption, or it could massage other provisions in the law to provide what some said would amount to similar protections.But some bloggers said they won’t be satisfied with anything other than the media exemption. To do otherwise, Moulitsas of Daily Kos said, would be “creating artificial distinctions between what should be media.”
“Keep in mind, this isn’t the unbiased, free and fair journalist exemption. It’s the media exemption. It applies as much to ‘The Daily Show’ as much as it applies to partisan pundits as much as it applies to you at The Washington Post,” he said, referring to Jon Stewart’s satirical news program on cable’s Comedy Central. “There’s no reason why bloggers should be treated any differently.”
Exactly.
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