For Political Blogs, Presence Of Bias Doesn't Mean Absence Of Media: Federal
> Election Commission<http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-for-political-blogs-presence-of-bias-doesnt-mean-absence-of-media-feder/>
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> By Rafat Ali <http://www.paidcontent.org/contact/2/> - Wed 05 Sep 2007
> 10:46 PM PST
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> In a decision with online media business implications, the US Federal
> Election Commission declared that DailyKos <http://www.dailykos.com/>, a
> politically liberal site, operates as a news and commentary provider, and
> therefore *exempt from campaign finance laws* that restrict the monetary
> contributions to it, reports BetaNews<http://www.betanews.com/article/DailyKos_and_Other_Blogs_Qualify_as_Media_Exempt_from_Finance_Laws/1189024568>.
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> The complaint from another blogger was that DailyKos openly solicited
> money in exchange for promoting the donor through advertising, rather than
> simply sell ads like a normal media site. This meant that with open
> Democratic bias of the site, it was soliciting contributions, with ads
> granted as a token of its appreciation.
> However, the FEC decided today that Kos Media, L.L.C., which operates
> DailyKos, did not violate the Federal Election Campaign Act, and that the
> site falls squarely within the media exemption and is therefore not subject
> to federal regulation under the Act. "The Commission has repeatedly stated
> that an entity that would otherwise qualify for the media exemption does not
> lose its eligibility because it features news or commentary lacking
> objectivity or expressly advocates in its editorials the election or defeat
> of a federal candidate," it said.