{"id":2151,"date":"2006-01-30T22:00:17","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T22:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2006-01-30T22:00:17","modified_gmt":"2006-01-30T22:00:17","slug":"could_blogs_get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2151","title":{"rendered":"Could Blogs Get Tangled in Web of Ethics Rules?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/state\/jan06\/388511.asp\">Lisa Sink<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>That&#8217;s because state elections law says that anyone who spends more than $25 a year to advocate for the election or defeat of a candidate &#8211; without that candidate&#8217;s knowledge or control &#8211; must register with the state as an independent committee and disclose the sources of the money spent and how it was expended.<\/p>\n<p>Should bloggers be regarded as a part of the news media, exempt from such rules, or should they be seen as partisan actors in a campaign who must register? Few bloggers draw the line where Berg did.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Sink: That&#8217;s because state elections law says that anyone who spends more than $25 a year to advocate for the election or defeat of a candidate &#8211; without that candidate&#8217;s knowledge or control &#8211; must register with the state as an independent committee and disclose the sources of the money spent and how it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151"}],"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=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}