FEC Wants to Regulate Conservative Media

http://washingtonexaminer.com/fec-c...ity-face-regulation-like-pacs/article/2548163


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


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.