Holland & Knight hires former Commerce Department official

How should news outlets like Courier be regulated, if at all? The Federal Election Commission is unlikely to weigh in, “leaving this murky space open for ‘abuse,’ said Brendan Fischer, the federal reform director at the Campaign Legal Center. ‘I don’t know how the FEC would treat Courier because the “media exemption” is the third rail of campaign finance,’ Fischer said. ‘Neither the Democrats or Republicans want to be in the business of determining what is a media entity.’”

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