Federal Election Commission Chairman Lee E. Goodman issued a warning that the federal government will soon impose regulations on conservative Internet sites, like Truth And Action and Drudge Report
“The right has begun to break the left’s media monopoly, particularly through new media outlets like the internet, and I sense that some on the left are starting to rethink the breadth of the media exemption and internet communications,” Goodman stated.
Goodman also states that he will fight this coming regulation.
In the 90’s Bill Clinton actually warned how conservatives could use the Internet to bypass left-media biased TV. Well, the man was right about one thing at least.
This is good news, actually. It means that we are really impinging on the corporate controlled media. Sure, we will have a fight on our hands, probably soon. But fight we will.
Government officials, reacting to the growing voice of conservative news outlets, especially on the internet, are angling to curtail the media’s exemption from federal election laws governing political organizations, a potentially chilling intervention that the chairman of the Federal Election Commission is vowing to fight.
“I think that there are impulses in the government every day to second guess and look into the editorial decisions of conservative publishers,” warned Federal Election Commission Chairman Lee E. Goodman in an interview.
“The right has begun to break the left’s media monopoly, particularly through new media outlets like the internet, and I sense that some on the left are starting to rethink the breadth of the media exemption and internet communications,” he added.
Noting the success of sites like the Drudge Report, Goodman said that protecting conservative media, especially those on the internet, “matters to me because I see the future going to the democratization of media largely through the internet. They can compete with the big boys now, and I have seen storm clouds that the second you start to regulate them, there is at least the possibility or indeed proclivity for selective enforcement, so we need to keep the media free and the internet free.”
All media has long benefited from an exemption from FEC rules, thereby allowing outlets to pick favorites in elections and promote them without any limits or disclosure requirements like political action committees.
But Goodman cited several examples where the FEC has considered regulating conservative media, including Sean Hannity‘s radio show and Citizens United’s movie division. Those efforts to lift the media exemption died in split votes at the politically evenly divided board, often with Democrats seeking regulation.
Liberals over the years have also pushed for a change in the Federal Communications Commission‘s “fairness doctrine” to cut of conservative voices, and retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has delighted Democrats recently with a proposed Constitutional amendment that some say could force the media to stop endorsing candidates or promoting issues.
“The picking and choosing has started to occur,” said Goodman. “There are some in this building that think we can actually regulate” media, added Goodman, a Republican whose chairmanship lasts through December. And if that occurs, he said, “then I am concerned about disparate treatment of conservative media.”
He added, “Truth be told, I want conservative media to have the same exemption as all other media.”
GO TO HELL OBASTERD
War is coming to DC.
Oh its our Dictator.. ah I mean El Presidente Osama Bin Bama. I’ll probally have the secret service on me now.
That is TREASON and the persons in the FEC have committed it by saying what they have and should be immediately hung. the Constitution said that we have a FREE PRESS and just like the right to keep and bare arms it Covers EVERY style or type. The internet is just another part of our FREE PRESS and Freedom of SPEECH that is not allowed to be infringed on by ANYONE or ANY Gov. or branch of gov. And ANYONE that want to restrict it in any way or even speaks or it gets out that he thinks its a good idea to retrict it, it is just the same as him wanting to make it happen and that is treason and he should be hung and the FEC should be forever done away with and the people in it should be looked at very hard and any thoughts by any of them and their staffs that go along with the FEC chair are all committing TREASON and the Constitution says hang them period. the Trial has already happened for him and he needs to be arrested and hung now. Once you get to these levels what you are saying is recorded and heard an that is your trial. for any in any branch and level of gov.. Treason right now is being covered up by the mass media and courts and that has be be broken and the ones in office their trial starts when they run for office or are appointed and they do stuff like this they should be hung in 24 hours on live tv along with any coharts. They know its wrong and that it against the constitution to do what they are saying and the need to be on a very very short leash and have not guards and once they say treasonous things they are gone like now. And they are not allowed to hire any protection
All there missing now is a Swastika.
I was glad to see that CBS News Reporter hit Jay Carney on Benghazi,he didn’t know what to say,for a while,then here comes the cover up by Carney again.
impeach this thing that has no ideal how to run a great country like our . he is trying to bring us down and no body is doing any thing just standing and waiting for our great country fall
Hey teabaggers Obamas coming for you guns!! Lol ohh you baggers make me laugh so hard!! Booooo!! Lol
This is something we need to fight to keep our freedoms.
Remember war war one well it looks like we are going to have to face it again.