{"id":1951,"date":"2005-11-18T00:01:47","date_gmt":"2005-11-18T00:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1951"},"modified":"2005-11-18T00:01:47","modified_gmt":"2005-11-18T00:01:47","slug":"fec_rules_blogg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1951","title":{"rendered":"FEC Rules Bloggers are Journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Election Commission (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fec.gov\/aos\/2005\/aor2005-16draft.pdf\">PDF<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>We are responding to your advisory opinion request on behalf of Fired Up! LLC (\u201cFired Up\u201d), concerning the application of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended (the \u201cAct\u201d), and Commission regulations to certain Internet websites owned and operated by Fired Up.<br \/>\nThe Commission concludes that the costs Fired Up incurs in covering or carrying news stories, commentary, or editorials on its websites are encompassed by the press exception, and therefore do not constitute \u201cexpenditures\u201d or \u201ccontributions\u201d under the Act and Commission regulations.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/archives\/003654.php\">Background<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Election Commission (PDF): We are responding to your advisory opinion request on behalf of Fired Up! LLC (\u201cFired Up\u201d), concerning the application of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended (the \u201cAct\u201d), and Commission regulations to certain Internet websites owned and operated by Fired Up. The Commission concludes that the costs Fired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}