Timothy Canova of Chapman University’s School of Law has this article in the Nexus Journal. From the abstract:

The Constitution protects the rights of Americans to participate in politics through assembly and membership in private interest groups. Yet the Founders recognized that interest groups and factions posed a particular danger in a democracy…. Using empirical records of campaign finance reports, this Article describes the iron triangles and captured sub-governments that plague our liberal pluralist order. The capture of federal communications policy by self-interested media companies has reduced the range and level of political discourse, and effectively privatized the public commons. A review of early American history of postal rate subsidies for newspapers provides support for present-day proposals to mandate free air time for political candidates across broadcast, cable and satellite mediums.