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Setting the price of a free press
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:58:09 -0400
This is more than a slippery slope, it is a cliff. The same can be said of several major industries -- TV, telecom etc.. Shall we gut the anti-trust laws?
Dave Begin forwarded message: From: jandpbosley () verizon net Date: August 22, 2009 11:54:54 AM EDT To: dave () farber net, jandpbosley () verizon net Subject: Setting the price of a free press Reply-To: jandpbosley () verizon net This column was sent to you by: John BosleyDave, for IP if you think it worthy. I find the reasoning a little bit difficult to follow but the topic is important.
Best, John Bosley -------------------- Setting the price of a free press --------------------If the 1st Amendment is to mean anything, Congress has to suspend antitrust rules for the newspaper industry so publishers can determine as a group how much to charge for online content.
Tim Rutten August 22 2009As The Times' Dawn C. Chmielewski reported Friday, emissaries of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. recently approached the owners of this newspaper, the New York Times, the Washington Post and Hearst Corp. about joining a consortium that would charge for online news content.
The complete article can be viewed at: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-rutten22-2009aug22,0,6637557.column Visit latimes.com at http://www.latimes.com ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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