You can expect the press to close ranks around its own when freedom of speech is threatened, right? Well, maybe not, when the speakers in question are Fox radio hosts and the heavy hand of government is acting under the aegis of campaign regulation. (Ryan Sager, “Seattle, Post Intelligence”, TechCentralStation, Jul. 19). Sager’s blog has further details, here and here. For more on the controversy over a judge’s order that comments by KVI hosts John Carlson and Kirby Wilbur be counted as campaign contributions, see Jul. 11.
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