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To: Lane3 who wrote (129788)	1/31/2010 8:56:05 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541933

The press is enumerated- so whether press is collective or individual, it is protected- by mention. But corporations are not mentioned- and if you read these protections as pertaining to individuals, and if you pay attention to the men whom the founders were reading, I don't see how you can tap dance around their concern for individual rights attaching to individual persons. But whatever. Activist judges can do whatever they want- whether they are liberal or conservative. Conservatives just tend to lie about their activism.

To: Lane3 who wrote (129788)	2/1/2010 3:44:53 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541933

Writers for the NYT have freedom of speech. They are unquestionably persons and citizens. With the possible exception of editorials, freedom of speech for the corporation is irrelevant. Sure they have the ability to write what they want to write, but if free speech rights can be infringed on if corporate money is involved, than so can free press rights (at least as a matter of principle, in practice the support for freedom of corporate press is strong enough that its unlikely). When a corporation produces an add, or issues a press release its also people issuing the communication. The legal issue, what was illegal before the USSC decision was paying for it with corporate money. The editorials, and even the regular stories in the New York Times, are paid for with corporate money.