While the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision recognizing the First Amendment right of corporations to spend money on political speech may swamp politics with more special-interest money, it’s hard to argue with it as a matter of constitutional law.
For news media corporations long have had that right and couldn’t exist without it; otherwise there would be no free press, just pamphleteers and bloggers. How can some corporations have the right and not others?
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