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If you want to touch the sky
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Just put a blogwatch in your eye\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Hit & Run<\/strong> slams the campaign finance reform decision<\/a>: \u201cThat there\u2019s a \u2018media exemption\u2019 only makes it more grotesque\u2013one powerful faction in society (elected officials) throwing a bone to another (the press).\u201d <\/p>\n

And Volokh <\/strong>hits the other side of the \u201cnewspapers are corporations too<\/a>\u201d coin: \u201cI\u2019ve mentioned before that I think corporate speech should be just a protected as noncorporate speech. One piece of evidence for this position is that newspapers, magazines, broadcasters, and other media outlets tend to be corporations, too. So far, the restrictions on corporate speech related to campaigns have excluded the media, at least as to some of its functions (\u2018news stor[ies], commentar[ies], or editorial[s],\u2019 in the BCRA statute that was just upheld). But (1) it\u2019s not clear why some corporations should have more statutory speech rights than others, and (2) these exemptions from the media are, under the Court\u2019s logic, matters of legislative charity; legislatures could, if they wanted to, restrict newspapers, TV stations, and cable programs owned by corporations just as they restrict speech by other corporations.\u201d<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think we know whether the long-range effects of the CFR bill will be good for media corporations (they become proportionately much bigger fish in a proportionately smaller pond), bad for media corporations (if future legislation does try to treat e.g. FoxNews as a corporation just like any other), or neutral (because there are so many loopholes\u2013apparently the NRA is considering forming a media corporation to run its near-election issue ads\u2013that CFR just won\u2019t do much). But looking at the newspapers vs. other corporation issue, in general, is a great way to see the problems with CFR. Bleah.<\/p>\n

Oxblog<\/strong>: Hee!<\/a><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a whole blog devoted to the theory of punishment<\/a> (and related legal and philosophical questions). Who knew? It looks super-intriguing; via L. Solum<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Henry Rollins tours with the USO.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"