ABSTRACT

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. A. J. Liebling

The whole country is littered with papers pushing every political line from anarchy to Zen ... it’s the very free-for-all which guarantees the freedom of each. You see, you don’t have to be a millionaire to contradict one.... The Flat Earth News is free to sell a million copies. What it lacks is the capability of finding a million people with four pence and a conviction that the world is flat. You see, people don’t buy rich men’s papers because the men are rich: the men are rich because people buy their newspapers ... freedom is neutral.