chaining the alternative press
"There's a terrible irony in the John Ashcroft Justice Department investigating the alternative press when, in fact, they have allowed far larger corporate entities to get away with transactions that have certainly raised a lot more antitrust issues than the LA Weekly-New Times deal has, and which had far greater effect on society...I don't think it's too paranoid to say that they're looking into the alternative press for political reasons."SFBG: Justice pursues New Times-VVM inquiry.
originally posted by daiichi
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clear channel.
Posted by: richard | January 7, 2003 3:32 PM
It has nothing to do with gaining the backing of the alternative press.
C'mon, are you really going to allow yourself to believe that Ashcroft's involvement with the DOJ investigation of VVM and NT will ever find its way to help him in the future?
Yes, his attention should have been on other previous monopolisitc activites, but you can't make things right if you don't start somewhere.. His somewhere just happens to be the NT/VVM deal...
Posted by: Joe | January 16, 2003 2:15 PM