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Igel

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6. The Washington Post is a corporation.
Fri Mar 29, 2019, 08:55 PM
Mar 2019

It doesn't have first amendment rights.



Somehow, that sounds a lot less convincing, but no less accurate.

Granting incorporated media, whether that's Buzzfeed, the NYT, or MSNBC first amendment rights relies on corporate personhood, in which the individual rights of those who incorporated it and hold shares somehow percolate through to the corporation.

In any event, the argument is that it was barred not because of what CFA did with its money, but what the owners of CFA did with *their* money. The word bandied about over this is "viewpoint discrimination." I have no opinion of that since I haven't time to look up anything about that; I don't even vouch for the accuracy of whether it was CFA or owner who donated the money.

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