[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 11, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 11CFR100.132]

[Page 74]
 
                       TITLE 11--FEDERAL ELECTIONS
 
                 CHAPTER I--FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION
 
PART 100_SCOPE AND DEFINITIONS (2 U.S.C. 431)--Table of Contents
 
                  Subpart E_Exceptions to Expenditures
 
Sec.  100.132  News story, commentary, or editorial by the media.

    Any cost incurred in covering or carrying a news story, commentary, 
or editorial by any broadcasting station (including a cable television 
operator, programmer or producer), Web site, newspaper, magazine, or 
other periodical publication, including any Internet or electronic 
publication, is not an expenditure unless the facility is owned or 
controlled by any political party, political committee, or candidate, in 
which case the cost for a news story:
    (a) That represents a bona fide news account communicated in a 
publication of general circulation or on a licensed broadcasting 
facility; and
    (b) That is part of a general pattern of campaign-related news 
account that give reasonably equal coverage to all opposing candidates 
in the circulation or listening area, is not an expenditure.

[67 FR 50585, Aug. 5, 2002, as amended at 71 FR 18613, Apr. 12, 2006]