Year in, year out, oil companies lavish billions of dollars on advertisements promoting their pet politicians and sponsoring vicious negative attack ads on the politicians they oppose. It is no accident that the very first bill taken up by the U.S. Senate would extend the oil companies' restrictive covenant prohibiting others from competing with these enormous, vile, polluting conglomerates. Except it's not really oil companies. The exemption is for a much more powerful, vile, polluting conglomerate known as the news media. That's why the media love the McCain-Feingold bill.
Liberals can never just make a principled argument.
It has to be Bambi against Hitler. Needless to say, with this sort of rigorous debate taking place in the adversary press, the arguments have been sharpened to a razor's edge. On the same day, ABC's This Week had precisely one guest on campaign-finance reform. Evidently, everyone supports the media's exalted role as the sole disseminators of political information. Everyone, that is, except a few self-serving and presumptively corrupt U.S. senators.