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TheMercenary Liberals doing their part to... 07-27-2007, 10:45 PM

Ibby Trying to boycott a... 07-27-2007, 11:02 PM

Urbane Guerrilla Though it will have the... 07-28-2007, 12:09 AM

elSicomoro I remember when this... 07-28-2007, 02:54 AM

Aliantha Ultimately, advertisers will... 07-28-2007, 05:05 AM

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TheMercenary Among others. 07-28-2007, 02:32 PM

yesman065 I find it interesting that... 07-28-2007, 11:15 AM

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yesman065 There's something to be proud... 07-29-2007, 10:36 AM

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TheMercenary That was great...:D 07-28-2007, 03:41 PM

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07-29-2007, 05:33 PM

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piercehawkeye45

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Originally Posted by yesman065

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Depends on what their intent was -If they are trying to remove financial support for the station, thereby removing it, then they are limiting Fox's free speech.
On the other hand if they are just trying to make a statement - what exactly is that statement and why choose this means to make it. If they are unhappy with a particular host, ie: O'Reilly, why not just target that particular host.

That is the free market, not limiting free speech. The free market will naturally limit free speech for commercial media because no one will buy or watch the unpopular news sources.

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