Campaign Finance Law

It almost goes without saying that policy involves big money. This applies today more than ever. On January 21, 2010, the High Court ruled that the U.S. government can not certain types of more campaign contributions from companies to prohibit. The reasoning was that companies are entitled to free speech under the First Amendment. This ruling overturns McCain / Feingold campaign finance legislation, along with pre-established precedents, legal limits on politicalExpenditure. As a result of this decision, the political landscape of public relations and advertising drastically.

In many respects, it is important that the government will not allow companies censor or inhibit them from certain things. Corporate media, for example, should be allowed in the theory on which it considers it appropriate to report to report. Of course the government has censored the media in the past, is a notable example is the 18-year ban (1991-2009) on a photographicCoverage of the U.S. dead return from foreign wars. collaboration (under George W. Bush, whose father started the ban during the first Iraq war, the ban was strictly controlled. Mainstream Corporate Media without significantly increasing the noise. In a sense, this prohibition still in effect when commitments were detached in a way that news agencies can now pictures of the arrival of the dead at the Dover base in Delaware, where the arrival of bodies sent back fromOCT.) But for the most part held the First Amendment rights of the corporate media to be important because the role of the media in informing the electorate is essential for the proper functioning of a democratic legitimacy.

The main effect that no corporate contributions to certain candidates. These are still tightly regulated. The actual impact on advertising. Companies may be spending as muchthey do on advertising. Among other things, making slanderous campaign of unprecedented cruelty and ubiquity. Large companies in the politics of a particular party is interested, in principle, want to be able to murder their worst character on the party candidate. So let's say, a huge company like Exxon Mobil that it is likely that a Republican is in office, the work will be to deregulate the oil industry, spend as much money IT managers see fit for the purpose Friends of thealways chosen the right man. (While I Exxon Mobil and the Republican Party as an example, there is no reason not to do it from the left, although the Republican Party is more likely to benefit from the win because they prefer more in the direction of policy, big business .) Of course, some companies must be careful not to call on the reputation of their brand and has shown a negative backlash from its shareholders and its customers, or they try a little too bad, butevil intentions are seemingly innocuous concerns are woven. The law is a boon to the PR firms hired to maximization of corporate propaganda as trade political influence, while minimizing the public headwind.

According to Justice Kennedy's majority opinion, there is no principled way to distinguish between media companies and other enterprises. This claim has two serious consequences: a) that non-media companies should review their freedom of expressionprotected in the same way as media companies do, and B), media companies (and companies and in principle is not differentiable, etc.) are legally obliged by law to profits and market share, but does not provide a public service as an objective source of information designed to improve the democratic functioning by facilitating an informed electorate. Companies are involved in campaigns on behalf of the candidate, not necessarily, be connected toany way, so candidates will not be called to account, and the mainstream media does not have an incentive to focus on this aspect, because it can not be in their own interests and businesses. There is more in favor of the corporate media companies to dirty politics in general and denounce a historical narrative of the decline of ethics in political advertising, leaving the decision of the court and the new corporate practices, which are important factors. This will most likely lead to aAlienating the public from politics in general and a decline in voter participation and citizens who go to the polls, is probably less well informed.

The situation here is associated with a number of parallels with the introduction of companies like Blackwater mercenaries or private news outlets, such as Booz Allen Hamilton, techniques and tactics that private companies are not the same politicians use laws to bind. The added benefit to politicians is that they do not evenContract companies on their behalf. Or rather, the principal informal groups and politicians to pay back by drafting bills and the adoption of measures that benefit businesses. It is clear quid pro quo, which many here see as synonymous with bribery.

It's very interesting to see how companies use their new powers to influence the upcoming elections, media, and how much coverage by corporate media to do what in termsactually happens. I understand that writing about this is not really news, because it is not new, but one of the problems with the concept of the message that consistently applies the detriment of creating a coherent and politically relevant historical story. A large majority of people are aware of how the center of these conditions can be implemented, but it must be reported? Its relevance will ever be established in the mainstream discourse? Or is it alreadyOnly old news and not worth a thing right? Time will tell. Keep an eye on.

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