Political Blogs: Free Speech or Campaigning

The 1970’s era campaign-finance reform may become irrelevant as blogs and websites funded by partisan political groups become a primary source of campaign spin and faux news. Can laws be written to regulate the financing of partisan websites that won’t infringe on free speech? Are the needed? Conveners: Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash; Richard Howe, LowellDems.org; Steve Brant, Trimtab/Huffington Post blogger; Steve Fox, WashingtonPost.com.