Excellent point. All any of us have to do is set up our own national newspaper or gain control of one of the big television-cable networks and we can freely express our opinions on a national scale in the last few weeks before an election while the opinions of our opponents, who do not own national newspapers or control a cable-television network, are reduced to so much white noise.
We don't even need to do that. We can each establish an Internet blog in which we may publish our opinions to be read by exactly no one.
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Xinhua Finance to buy U.S.-based Market News ( 2003-12-10 09:11) (Agencies) Xinhua Financial Network Ltd., a news agency part-owned by the Chinese government, said on Tuesday it will buy U.S. financial news service Market News International Inc., giving it a firm foothold on Wall Street. The deal is the first acquisition of a sizable Western news service by a Chinese company and comes as Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao was in Washington to meet President Bush. New York-based Market News is a niche news service with 5,000 subscribers, among them traders and investors, willing to pay for the company's chatty, inside view of Wall Street.
The official government of China news agency now is buying US media... wonderful! Just as long as the NRA can't/