I’ve expanded into a longer Cato post my item about how (according to the New York Times) incoming French president François Hollande demanded and got the dismissal of the editor of Le Figaro, the leading opposition (conservative) newspaper. If you think such things would never happen in this country, you might want to catch up on a couple of stories from Chicago and Boston. The post is here.

P.S. They’re still fighting in Washington over media cross-ownership rules.

Filed under: Chicago, First Amendment, France, newspapers