TITLE

Campaign Finance Laws and the Rupert Murdoch Problem

AUTHOR(S)

Hasen, Richard L.

PUB. DATE

June 1999

SOURCE

Texas Law Review;Jun99, Vol. 77 Issue 7, p1627

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Argues that a media exception to campaign finance laws is unjustifiable in the United States. Application of federal campaign finance law to news media; Discussion on an egalitarian pluralist model to argue against a media exception in campaign finance laws; Arguments for the undermining of equality by media exception; Two objections to repeal the media exception.

ACCESSION #

2168847