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	<title><![CDATA[Congratulations, Blogs!  You Are 'Media!']]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/09/06/congratulations-blogs-you_n_63343.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Hey, blogosphere! Looks like we made it! In a pair of decisions made yesterday that will make it increasingly difficult to continue raging against the so-called "MSM," the <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/05/fec-determines-that-blogs-count-as-media/">Federal Election Commission has ruled</a> that "political blogs and bloggers are media for the purposes of US Electoral Law." Naturally, playing a key role in all the gatecrashing was that Bill O'Reilly bete noire, DailyKos:</p>

<blockquote>Conservative blogger John C.A. Bambenek claimed that [DailyKos] should comply with campaign finance laws because it charges...</blockquote>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Media]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:45:00-04:00</date_published>
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