PR Firms Sue Ethics Panel Over Rule
A group of public relations firms on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against New York’s ethics panel over a new disclosure rule.
The suit seeks to stop the panel from implementing a rule requiring disclosure of efforts to get editorial columns written for causes.
The opinion says that lobbying could refer to a consultant who tries to place an editorial for a client to deliver a lobbying message to a public official. The lawsuit says it limits free speech.
When the rule was announced in January, the New York Press Club objected strenuously, saying the opinion undermines a basic tenet of journalism and endangers the ability to keep private the names of sources.
The commission then removed a reference to media consultants contacting reporters to push a message.
This article appeared in print on page 5 of edition of Hamodia.
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