>> Right now, I'm wondering about newspapers. I mean, they very selectively 
>> report only certain news stories. And some newspapers seem to definitely 
>> only report information that makes their favoured political party look 
>> good, or the opposition look bad. Now I'm curios to know whether this is 
>> actually legal.
> 
>   I suppose there's a decisive line when offering information actually
> costs money, vs. active censorship.
> 
>   If the newspaper would actively censor something which would otherwise
> be available (if they did nothing), *that* would probably be highly
> illegal.

Indeed, if the newspaper did *nothing*, there would be no information 
available at all... And it would be perfectly impossible for them to 
offer *everything*. (And nobody would buy it anyway.)

>   Of course biased newscasting is morally quite dubious and against
> journalism ethics (which are actually real written texts in most
> countries which, while not enforced by law, breaking them is frowned
> upon, usually).

I bet somebody does it now and then to make a crok of money though...

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