Post by morningstar on May 9, 2014 4:44:47 GMT
Slowly we turn, step by step...towards dictatorship.
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The Examiner: 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.”
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Bible Prophecy Tracker OPINION: : If ya can’t beat ‘em, regulate ‘em. That is not an old saying, I made it up.
Fairness and inclusivity for the common good is about to change the way we get our news. Since left-wing media ratings (talk radio and bloggers) are dismal at best, the FCC wants to dilute the message of the competition making the ratings more fair. How nice, fairness for all.
dru1Websites like Drudge, Breitbart, The Daily Caller are targets. Christian websites like World Watch Daily, World Net Daily and the Christian Post will be diluted with secular counterpoints and don’t even think about Israeli sites like YNet and Arutz Sheva or Debkafile.
That’s my first list for news each day.
Get ready for CNN, Al Jazeera, and MSNBC non-stop. Websites like this one are far down the list and should be able to keep reporting under the radar, for now.
That everything is about to change and it is actually the best news ever. After those pesky Christians vanish, the world can get down and party.
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Fair Use for Discussion Purposes.
Bible Prophecy tracker
The Examiner: 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.”
Link to Article
Bible Prophecy Tracker OPINION: : If ya can’t beat ‘em, regulate ‘em. That is not an old saying, I made it up.
Fairness and inclusivity for the common good is about to change the way we get our news. Since left-wing media ratings (talk radio and bloggers) are dismal at best, the FCC wants to dilute the message of the competition making the ratings more fair. How nice, fairness for all.
dru1Websites like Drudge, Breitbart, The Daily Caller are targets. Christian websites like World Watch Daily, World Net Daily and the Christian Post will be diluted with secular counterpoints and don’t even think about Israeli sites like YNet and Arutz Sheva or Debkafile.
That’s my first list for news each day.
Get ready for CNN, Al Jazeera, and MSNBC non-stop. Websites like this one are far down the list and should be able to keep reporting under the radar, for now.
That everything is about to change and it is actually the best news ever. After those pesky Christians vanish, the world can get down and party.
Link to site
Fair Use for Discussion Purposes.
