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The Washington Examiner is reporting that government officials are not happy with the success of conservatives like Sean Hannity and Matt Drudge and are attempting to regulate them by ending a media exemption from federal election laws. Federal Election Commission Chairman Lee Goodman told the Examiner, ?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 plans to fight any such regulation.
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 with Democrats seeking regulation. 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.?
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