Coordination Is Illegal Unless........

By Ben Double Crossed

Coordinating political endorsements with the needs of a candidate’s election committee is illegal unless you own a commercial newspaper or a broadcast station !

Our nation’s largest and most powerful newspaper chains used Richard Nixon's "character flaws" to their advantage:

Some of our nation’s largest newspapers found themselves in federal court losing antitrust suits which accused them of purchasing financially troubled newspapers and then pretending to compete with them while rigging prices.

Richard Nixon and his Attorney General were on record as strongly opposed to the passage of the Newspaper Preservation Act. The Newspaper Preservation Act was working its way through congress and was designed to grant antitrust relief to the affected newspapers.

A newspaper executive wrote a letter to President Nixon as his re-election approached. The letter reminded President Nixon that the nation’s largest Newspaper chains published in those states that had the largest number of electoral votes. The carefully worded letter reminded President Nixon that it could be difficult to be re-elected without their editorial support.

President Nixon reversed his position and used his political skills to convince congress to pass the newspaper preservation act.

Newspapers in the parlance of our existing Federal election laws "had coordinated their endorsements" with the needs of president Nixon's Re-election committee in return for his support for "their Newspaper Preservation Act".

[ see pgs.95-99 ] The Media Monopoly 5th edition paperback by professor Ben H. Bagdikian.

Newspapers are exempt from election laws, that restrict handbill distribution  by individuals and grassroots political organizations."

Campaign finance laws restrict grassroots influence and that protects the political interest of approximately 4% of our U.S. population, who finance federal election campaigns.  [ the 4% figure is from a 1997 government study ]

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