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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Regarding the press: Neither the people nor the courts care what the press says, since they are actually owned by the same companies that own the BWMs no one in their right mind can think they are saying anything but whatever is best for the BWMs and damn the truth.
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The Guardian, the British paper that seems most likely to have the sort of story you dislike, is untied to book publishers, being essentially self-owned:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Trust_Limited
The New York Times is 88 percent family-owned, with most of the rest owned by Carlos Slim, who does not seem to be a publisher:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New...imes#Ownership
As for the
Washington Post, I take it you know who owns that.
CBS News? One for you there -- common ownership with Simon & Schuster. FoxNews? Until recently, it was under the same ownership as Harper-Collins, so I'll give you that. And I'm all for less television viewing. But do the television networks really drive publishing coverage? I doubt it.
The Wall Street Journal? Yes. Same ownership as Harper-Collins. Does this really make the Journal's coverage of the publishing biz slavish devotion compared the independent papers? No.
Your media bashing is an example of playing the ump.