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« Ethics Proposals | Main | Today's Reading List » November 10, 2005Today's Reading ListBlogging, Politics and Media: Bob Krumm says the Tennessean "has it exactly wrong" in an editorial today about campaign finance laws, the FEC and the Internet. Krumm writes: While the Tennessean recognizes that I should be able to continue my running commentary, it doesn't support the law that would have specifically allowed it. Their objection is that the same law would have permitted "bad" speech as well as good. (Notice also that they mentioned blogs as free speech, not as a free press. But that's another issue for another time.) The Tennessean's logic is entirely backwards. ... Current FEC rules technically diminish the very rights The Tennessean says should be "celebrated and protected." The bill defeated last week in the House would have narrowed the reach of those rules.Krumm's right. Politics: Bob Krumm has some doubts that state Sen. Ron Ramsey is the right leader for the Republicans in the Tennessee state Senate. ... Media: A Tennessean editorial says "government secrecy is never the right policy." Really? So ... the plans for D-Day should have been pre-published in the New York Times? ... Also, Mary Mapes, the former CBS producer who foisted those forged documents on the American people last year, is rather unhinged - and lying - in her book about that journalism scandal. Read this blog post from INDC Journal - including all of the comments. Posted in Today's Reading List
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