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inlawrev-3692	Kramer Ricchiuto, Anne	The End of Time for Equal Time?: Revealing the Statutory Myth of Fair Election Coverage	2005	28	.pdf	application/pdf	13948	708	58	However, in 1959, in response to an FCC ruling that candidate appearances on news programs would trigger the equal time requirements of the Act,^ Congress created four explicit exemptions from equal time for news-oriented broadcasts focusing on political candidates. Rec. 14,451 (1959) (remarks of Sen. Holland); see id. at 1493-94 (discussing constitutional challenges to reasonable access and equal time and concluding that neither threaten so substantial a chill on political speech as to warrant invalidation, but that the availability of electronic media has diminished the compelling need for equal time) (emphasis added). 8.	cache/inlawrev-3692.pdf	txt/inlawrev-3692.txt