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Date Posted: 00:23:54 02/27/04 Fri
Author: George Lessard
Subject: Under corporate control, there is no guarantee of freedom of speech

*** Under corporate control, there is no guarantee of freedom of speech ***
by Larry Hollon.
Respected journalist Bill Moyers was not exaggerating when he recently told an audience that ‘the very soul of democracy is at stake’ with the increasing concentration of ownership of public media such as radio, newspapers, television and the Internet. United Methodist Communications, responsible for the denomination’s four-year, $20 million advertising campaign, recently engaged in a skirmish over paid
speech with Reuters after the international media giant initially refused to place our ads on its giant Times Square electronic billboard. While the church won this engagement over the Times Square billboard, this confrontation with a huge media company shows we are living in dangerous times governed by an evolving social policy that severely limits public discourse.

http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1490

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