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On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:22:02 -0400, Warp wrote:
> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
>> If they're privately held companies, they can do whatever they like.
>
> That's certainly not true in the general case. There are tons of laws
> governing what private companies can and cannot do, even with their own
> property. Monopoly law is just one example.
Sure, I was exaggerating for effect; they can, however, report the news
that they feel is important, and they can do so in a biased way if they
so desire.
There was an interesting proposal here recently to allow the newspapers
to choose to take federal funding. One of the caveats of the proposal
was that they could then no longer endorse political candidates.
Jim
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