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Why not?

• fastball 8y ago
  Why is a free press that deliberately meddles with the US electoral process a bad thing?
  • Simulacra 8y ago
    Because bias. It's not a free press when that press is a corporation with a political agenda.
    • monocasa 8y ago
      Can you point to a free press at any time in our history that wasn't a corporation with a political agenda?
      • Simulacra 8y ago
        Reuter’s or any number of small newspapers that were independently owned from major corporations, and stayed neutral.
    • dragonwriter 8y ago
      > It's not a free press when that press is a corporation with a political agenda. If it's a corporation with a political agenda, sure, that's an issue (though not of an absence of free press, just an inability to serve the purpose of having a free press); when it's a multitude of corporations with a diversity of political and financial agendas, less so. OTOH, "freedom of the press" is not "immunity of people who publish information from all law", either.
  • ryanlol 8y ago
    What sort of reporting on the candidates would not constitute meddling?
    • fastball 8y ago
      In business, do you not think there is a difference between deliberately sabotaging your competition vs. producing a better product than your competition?