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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>The Technology Liberation Front - Latest Comments in Turning the Page on Newspaper Ownership Rules: New Paper from Heritage</title><link>http://tlf.disqus.com/</link><description>The Technology Liberation Front is the tech policy blog dedicated to keeping politicians' hands off the 'net and everything else related to technology.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 19:29:40 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: Turning the Page on Newspaper Ownership Rules: New Paper from Heritage</title><link>http://techliberation.com/2008/05/08/turning-the-page-on-newspaper-ownership-rules-new-paper-from-heritage/#comment-1454177</link><description>Well though another process which is occurring is that newspapers are emerging as not for profits. There’s no reason why we can’t have great newspapers, run as not-for-profits.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;What’s more important–a vibrant and free press, whose goals would be the public good, or one that is owned by corporate interests, for profit.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The benefits of a free press extend very far beyond the profitability of the newspapers as business entities.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The real issue here is this: Are Newspapers only economic entities, or are they important for other reasons, like exposing corruption and fostering a wide ranging public debate?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://enigmafoundry.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/rumours-of-the-death-of-the-newspaper-have-been-greatly-exaggerated/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://enigmafoundry.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/r...&lt;/a&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">eee_eff</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 19:29:40 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>