Comments on: To save the newspaper industry, let’s pass a law requiring every family to buy a newspaper http://www.watcherofweasels.org/to-save-the-newspaper-industry-lets-pass-a-law-requiring-every-family-to-buy-a-newspaper/ Keeping an eye on the weasels of the world Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:46:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Watcher of Weasels » You can lead people to paper but you can’t make them readhttp://www.watcherofweasels.org/to-save-the-newspaper-industry-lets-pass-a-law-requiring-every-family-to-buy-a-newspaper/comment-page-1/#comment-6265 Watcher of Weasels » You can lead people to paper but you can’t make them read Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:01:44 +0000 http://www.watcherofweasels.org/?p=2242#comment-6265 [...] want to thank James Taranto for his kind mention of my tongue in cheek post suggesting that the Washington Post ought to advocate for the forced purchase of [...] [...] want to thank James Taranto for his kind mention of my tongue in cheek post suggesting that the Washington Post ought to advocate for the forced purchase of [...]

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]]> By: Chazlhttp://www.watcherofweasels.org/to-save-the-newspaper-industry-lets-pass-a-law-requiring-every-family-to-buy-a-newspaper/comment-page-1/#comment-6263 Chazl Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:07:59 +0000 http://www.watcherofweasels.org/?p=2242#comment-6263 Just to be clear, the expression "the press" to mean the journalists as a class only gained currency in the 1930s, the first such usages being just prior to WWI. Accordingly, "freedom of the press," signifies not some special privileges of the journalists but the right each and every one of us has to express ourselves in print as well as in speech. Just to be clear, the expression “the press” to mean the journalists as a class only gained currency in the 1930s, the first such usages being just prior to WWI. Accordingly, “freedom of the press,” signifies not some special privileges of the journalists but the right each and every one of us has to express ourselves in print as well as in speech.

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