I Just Came from the Opening Session of Move to Amend's Portland Convergence - This is Important.

[jeff47]

42. Doesn't matter if the people do still have rights. They rely on the paper to get the story out.

So the people can write whatever they want. They just can't publish their articles if the government says "no" because it's the corporation that publishes them.

Blogs? Again, write whatever you want. But your ISP can't publish them without government permission - again, it's a non-person involved in actually transmitting the story. Even if you own your own server, you've got an upstream ISP that's a corporation.

The first amendment's rights need to cover both people and companies. What you need in an amendment is to declare political speech and political donations are not covered by the first amendment. After all, Sheldon Adelson spending hundreds of millions in an election is just as bad as a corporation spending hundreds of millions in an election.