3 Reasons Not To Sweat The "Citizens United" SCOTUS Ruling

It’s not going to be “speech,” it’s going to be advertising. And despite the fact that every single individual believes themself to be immune to advertising, it wouldn’t be a multi-billion dollar industry if that were the case.

The constitutional-legal reasoning of the decision, if that’s what you mean, is irrelevant to the topic stated n the OP.

What do you see as the difference?

Right. What’s the difference between a newspaper article and a newspaper ad, or 60 Minutes and an infomercial, as far as the First Amendment is concerned.

And please don’t bring up some code of journalism as a justification for this. First of all - for the purposes of the First Amendment this is irrelevant. Secondly we have seen in recent elections that media companies can behave admirably or badly alike - this has little bearing on their right to publish or be on the air.