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A license to operate a newspaper? This sounds far fetched as there are no limited resources like airwaves being occupied.
by brown9-2 13y ago
A license to operate a newspaper? This sounds far fetched as there are no limited resources like airwaves being occupied.
- nitrogen 13y agoThere are business licenses, code inspections, and changing zoning requirements. Not quite the same as a spectrum license, but there are still many ways for a government to exert pressure on a newspaper.
- maxerickson 13y agoSurely there is some crank website documenting all the newspapers that have been driven out of business by federal pressure. The major newspapers play silly access games, but just throwing out speculation that they are getting pressured is pointless.
- nitrogen 13y agoRight, I'm not playing conspiracy theory or saying there is coercion, just responding to the comment that newspapers don't require any licensing. What with the IRS targeting political groups, you can't be too careful these days ;-).