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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (62212)	8/20/2004 7:17:37 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793841

Actually I don't know the ins and outs of rules governing paid political advertising. On the one hand, you've got privately owned companies, which can control the content they air, but on the other hand, they are quasi-public forums, their licenses are handed out by the federal government. Take a less controversial issue, say, NAACP. Would the FCC allow white-owned radio stations in racially segregated areas to refuse to run ads by the NAACP? Can Jewish owned stations muzzle ads by pro-Palestinian groups, or vice versa?