Blogs Are Media, Says U.S. FEC

In two recent decisions, the U.S. Federal Election Commission ruled that blogs count as media, at least as far as election laws are concerned.

It's a step closer to a definite determination that blogs are fully covered by free-press constitutional protection (Including, one would hope, the scienter standards in New York v. Sullivan).

The First Amendment (which the Philippines adopted) was conceptualized with the "lone pamphleteer" of America's bygone revolutionary era in mind - untrained, unprofessional, and every so often uncouth. Bloggers are the true heirs of this tradition, and not polished corporate-owned media.