[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I don't know where you're from, but I have seen newspapers across the board censor conservative views in their editorial sections, and refuse to allow conservatives to purchase space to publish conservative views.

I have no reason at all to doubt it. That's what the First Amendment says - that you have no business in court trying to make a paper print, for a fee or gratis, anything the owner of that paper doesn't want to print.

Don't buy the idiocy that foreign ownership of our media is not a problem.

Of course ownership of media is an issue. It is an issue because journalism is politics. It was politics when Ben Franklin had a media empire in the colonies before and during the revolution, it was politics when Hamilton and Jefferson sponsored competing newspapers in which to wage their partisan battles, it was politics when the sections of the country were breaking apart, it was politics when Hearst was getting us into war with Spain.

Journalism has never stopped being politics. Journalism especially became hyper-political when it started making the most political claim of all - the claim of being objective, which as far as I can discern is indistinguishable from a claim of wisdom. That matters because since Socrates we have understood that claiming to be wise is a power play. If you claim to be wise, you shut off debate. If you claim to be wise, you are engaged in sophistry. If you can get away with claiming to be wise, you can get away with saying that "it depends on the meaning of 'is'."

And of course, FCC licensing of broadcasters is predicated on the idea that broadcast journalism can mimic The New York Times and other hyperpolitical print journals - and that doing so proves that they are broadcasting in the public interest! A perfectly absurd rationale.

Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[hedgetrimmer]

Its a bit odd that you crossed out the word foreign, as in 'foreign ownership'.