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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Bombs & Guns In Schools ((Why))?
Saturday, 24-Apr-99 23:50:47
sent that accidentally again. That's what I get for buying a foreign product. ;-)
News papers and magazines are also paid for by advertisement in much the same way. I used to be the editor for a magazine. WE made our profit selling adds, not selling magazines. I had almost complete control over which articled were placed in that magazine. At no time did an advertiser tell me what I could or could not publish. Nor did they dictate where I placed their add. In bigger publications there are prime slots for advertisers just as there is prime time for telivision commercials.
The govt. never, I repeat, never tells a magazine, news paper, film maker, magazine what they can or cannot publish. If they could there would never have been a Watergate, Whitewater, whatever kind of water scandal, would there? I wish they could. I wish the violence could be removed from programming. I wish they could tell recording artists like Marilyn Manson to clean up his act. As long as people keep buying tickets to those films and buying those recordings, they will be produced.
I'd really like to see a list of all the other contries that have that kind of freedom of the press.
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