Setting the price of a free press

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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 Bosley

Dave, 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

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Setting the price of a free press
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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 2009

As 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

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