A CBS spokesman said the network's policy was tightened in September 2006 to forbid contributions to political campaigns. Previously, there was a bit of wiggle room.
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As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech.
CBS started to confiscate our packages and mail as a safety procedure. A lot of packages that people send for the holidays and to our kids we can't open. A lot of times they are from overseas. It's very upsetting at times.
The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.
Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.
Policy gets out of date.
You know how trends go with television. Next year, the networks might not be open to taking risks.
Every major federal campaign-finance-reform effort since 1943 has attempted to treat corporations and unions equally. If a limit applied to corporations, it applied to unions; if unions could form PACs, corporations could too; and so on. DISCLOSE is the first major campaign-finance bill that has not taken this approach.
The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
The Obama administration is on notice - they will not be allowed to regulate what they have been unable to legislate.
ABC forbids political activity by journalists.