This is a two part post. One for alarm and one for caution.
AT THE FEC, Chairman Lee Goodman is claiming that some commissioners (the democrat ones) are starting to believe that there is too much conservative speech and that that poses a challenge to the left's stranglehold on the conventional national media. The Washington Examiner had this coverage of Chairman Lee Goodman's warning yesterday: FEC-chair-warns-conservative-media-drudge-hannity-face-regulation-like-pacs/article/2548163
My inquiring mind wondered what other coverage there was, so I searched for "fec to regulate media" using Google. The above link was first. In the first three pages of results, not one mainstream outlet appeared, except for Fox news. But plenty of "new" media results came from pjmedia, Daily Caller, Breitbart, Infowars, prisonplanet, lonelyconservative, Freerepublic, allaccess, etc. Nowhere do ABC, NBC, CBS or PBS show up.
So I searched for "FEC Chairman Goodman." Similar result except for a Washington Post article.
Still don't think the media is highly liberal biased?
Good background on this comes from Lee Goodman himself, in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece he wrote on February 4, 2014. FEC Chairman Lee E. Goodman: The Feds Flirt With Reining in TV Talk
I remember reading that piece and feeling quite chilled. I hope you do too. Wither the 1st Amendment if the liberals on the FEC get their way?
ON THE OTHER HAND: Breitbart News has this article where they ask where all the fire is. Perhaps there is no reporting by MSM because there is only smoke. I was surprised to find this piece, but it raises the vital issue about how much fact-checking goes on these days, no matter who the reporter is or has allegiance to.
From Breitbart: What-in-the-world-is-lee-goodman-even-talking-about/
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