[Carry_Okie]

Talk is cheap - it is printing presses, ink, and paper which cost money.

None of which are on the shopping list for that money. Political spending is all about mass media buys.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Talk is cheap - it is printing presses, ink, and paper which cost money.

None of which are on the shopping list for that money. Political spending is all about mass media buys.

1. Printing presses are the original mass media, and

2. as I discuss in my post, the framers of the constitution anticipated the other mass media, in principle if not specifically.

And the Ninth Amendment says that the First Amendment is a floor under our liberties, not a ceiling above them . . . which is an argument not only for the expansive reading of “the press” to include other opinion expression technologies which the Patent Office provision encourages, and also for the retention of the right which Hamilton, Jay, and Madison exercised when they published the Federalist Papers pseudonymously. A right which “campaign finance reform” advocates presume to abolish - but which the framers judged to be needful in order to get the Constitution ratified.