Saturday, August 06, 2005
Rack update update
I've now talked to two business managers who say that Community Racks of Montana had given them the impression that free publications had been contacted in advance before their racks were removed. Neither was happy to hear that wasn't true, and one offered to let us right back in. We may not have lost this thing yet.
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It's not government that clamps down on the free flow of ideas in this country - it's the private sector. (How many people are afraid to speak up because of employment and business relationships? (Try: Everyone.)) And the process is crassly apolitical - don't fret too much, David - ssince your newspaper is untained by ideology, as you say, you won't be too intimidated to complain about the free market system that is doing you in.
It's not government that clamps down on the free flow of ideas in this country - it's the private sector. (How many people are afraid to speak up because of employment and business relationships? (Try: Everyone.)) And the process is crassly apolitical - don't fret too much, David - ssince your newspaper is untained by ideology, as you say, you won't be too intimidated to complain about the free market system that is doing you in.
I would like to read more about this issue as I only have the last paragraph to reference. I'm researching legal implications of community racks being put it at the expense of other free pubs, removing free publication racks, then charging or even denying rack space or bins for other free pubs.
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