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FEC chair warns that conservative media like Drudge Report and Sean Hannity face regulation

Wednesday, May 7, 2014 11:04

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FEC chair warns that conservative media like Drudge Report and Sean Hannity face regulation

Posted by Charleston Voice

Just another feature the Republicans can build and expand on when they get their own opportunity.

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By Paul Bedard | MAY 7, 2014 AT 8:49 AM

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Sean Hannity’s radio show came under fire by Democratic election officials for raising political…

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.” READ MORE