http://www.extrememortman.com/mainstream-media/subsidize-this-blog/ Just When You Thought it was Safe to Take Politics Seriously Again Fri, 5 Sep 2008 14:54:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 http://www.extrememortman.com/mainstream-media/subsidize-this-blog/#comment-56711 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:22:16 +0000 http://www.extrememortman.com/mainstream-media/subsidize-this-blog/#comment-56711 The Feds already indirectly subsidize some newspapers by providing an anti-trust law exemption when there are two papers in the same city, allowing them to be printed and distributed together under co-management, so long as they maintain separate news & editorial staffs - thus keeping the one that would otherwise fail 'alive', if on life-support. Most of the latter ultimately die, anyway. The Feds already indirectly subsidize some newspapers by providing an anti-trust law exemption when there are two papers in the same city, allowing them to be printed and distributed together under co-management, so long as they maintain separate news & editorial staffs - thus keeping the one that would otherwise fail ‘alive’, if on life-support. Most of the latter ultimately die, anyway.

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