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There are such laws, but they only apply to political candidates, and only on TV & Radio. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-time_rule http://en.wikipedia.o
by buss 15y ago
There are such laws, but they only apply to political candidates, and only on TV & Radio. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-time_rule http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-time_rule
This definitely doesn't apply to websites, though, so I was half wrong.
- gojomo 15y agoAha, yes, I had conflated that in my mind with the late 'fairness doctrine'. Thanks for the correcting pointer. Looks like the equal-time rule specifically triggers when one candidate is given free time on TV/radio (that doesn't fall under certain news/documentary exceptions). So even on TV/radio, a 'blackout', rather than favoring any one candidate, would be OK. I suppose there could be campaign finance rules that come into play in some cases – if time/space was considered a undeclared donation. There was some noise about this with regard to the FEC and political bloggers in past US election cycles.