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Peterson’s appearance on the news analysis show “Talk of the Nation” was broadcast yesterday over National Public Radio (NPR) from the Askwith Forum at the Harvard Graduate School of Education...
...also makes it illegal for labor unions, corporations or advocacy groups to broadcast issue ads during a 60-day period (30 days for a primary) prior to an election. That last bit is what the measure's opponents, let by Senator Mitch McConnell, are seizing on to challenge the Constitutionality of the bill; they say this violates free speech...
...affiliates, for example, spent over $2 million in soft money for the 2000 elections.) But just as water tends to find ways to flow, "money will still get to the campaigns," predicts a G.O.P. fund raiser. Special-interest groups wouldn't be able to use soft money to broadcast attacks on radio or TV just before an election, but the bill doesn't prevent them from putting that cash into direct-mail, e-mails or get-out-the-vote campaigns against a candidate. The soft-money spigot would be shut for the parties, but more regulated "hard money" would...
...have become big events themselves. The new trailer for George Lucas' Star Wars: Episode II--Attack of the Clones, is scheduled to unreel in theaters this week after a premiere on television. The Fox network (sibling of the movie studio releasing the film in May) slated the trailer's broadcast between The X-Files and Malcolm in the Middle on March 10, thereby luring Star Wars devotees to the network just to catch...
...longer be able to use soft money for radio or TV 'issue ads' that attack candidates just before a primary" but that "groups could still make the attacks through a variety of other means." The bill states that corporate- and union-treasury money may not be used for broadcast ads that mention a federal candidate (what you call attack ads) for 30 days before a primary or 60 days prior to an election. This is an obvious violation of the First Amendment's free-speech clause. TOM POTTER South Daytona...