Deregulated Media and Our Endless Campaign 'Silly Season'
Huffington Post, September 23, 2008
By Sarah O'Leary
As a democracy, the U.S. government guarantees us the right to "free and fair" elections. But the unconscionable complacency of the deregulated FCC, the FEC, the FTC and Congress has derailed our right to fair elections well before we pull the curtain to cast our votes.
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