"FEC Declines to Rule on Filmmaker Exemption"

Roll Call offers this breaking news report (paid registration required), which begins: "As critics stepped up their efforts to discredit Michael Moore’s controversial documentary “Fahrenheit 9/11,” the Federal Election Commission declined to rule on whether documentary films qualify for a journalistic exemption from laws designed to regulate campaign advertisements and other types of electioneering."

Posted by Rick Hasen at June 24, 2004 01:57 PM