Is the FEC planning to regulate online conservative outlets the same way it regulates PACs?

   Back in February there was a report that the FCC wanted to put monitors in newsrooms in order to find out how these media outlets determined which stories to cover and which ones to ignore–so much for freedom of the press! This plan was dropped after outcry from the public, which was concerned with what the Federal government intended to do with this information.

  However, if this story is true, the Obama regime may be looking at another way to manipulate and control the media. At least one FEC official believes the Obama regime is seriously considering regulating some online news outlets–such as Drudge–by regulating them in the same manner as PACs.

  Here is more:

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.”

  If this story is true it would seem to be a clear violation of the first amendment, which guarantees a free press. The press has always engaged in the political process, this is nothing new, what is new however is the fact that the conservative press has more outlets than ever before and the Obama regime does not like this one bit.

  There is probably nothing to this story because the Obama regime has never used a government agency such as, oh I don’t know maybe the IRS, to go after political…..oh wait, never mind.