Did Your Paper Endorse SCOTUS Ruling? Denver Post Did

[otohara]

Read it and VOMIT.

editorial
A major victory for free speech
A decision by the Supreme Court reverses decades of laws that only served to drive campaign finance underground.

By The Denver Post
Posted: 01/22/2010 01:00:00 AM MST

The Supreme Court struck a vital blow for free speech Thursday by ruling that government cannot outlaw corporate spending in the elections of political candidates.

The complex web of campaign spending restrictions put in place over the decades, most recently with the 2002 McCain-Feingold Act, have created a flawed system that limits political speech and encourages indirect giving that can make political campaigns unaccountable.

When McCain-Feingold passed, its stated intention was to take money and corruption out of politics. It failed in both regards. Instead, its ambiguous and complex provisions unleashed a number of unintended consequences with a negative and chilling effect on free speech.

To illustrate the problem, the justices explained in the majority opinion that a group like the Sierra Club would be breaking the law if it ran an advertisement within 60 days of an election "that exhorts the public to disapprove of a Congressman who favors logging in national forests."

The justices rightly call the ban a classic example of censorship.

Read more: http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_14242352#ixzz0dP2QBZv5

[Robb]

1. The excerpt alone has me quite dizzy from the spin.

I'm not sure I would survive the entire piece.

[kstewart33]

8. I subscribe to the Denver Post. You're right - what a terrible piece of dreck.

The Post has shifted to the right since the Rocky Mountain News went under and the Post hired some of their opinion columnists. Some of them must have been added to the editorial board.

They also have been urging our two Dem senators to vote against HCR and kill the bill so Congress can start over 'next year.' They're honestly trying to sell this to their readers.

[DJ13]

2. The subscribers need to organize a boycott of those fascists

[Drunken Irishman]

3. Nope. Came out against it.

Which is funny, because both the Denver Post & Salt Lake Tribune are owned by the same company.

http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_14247455

[otohara]

6. Dean Singleton Was Big On More Media Deregulation

It's his dream to own TV stations in the markets he owns - typical greedy corporate puke.
He claims to butt out of Editorial content - based on the Utah paper, maybe he does.

[tridim]

4. Corporations dig it. No surprise.

[BunkerHill24]

5. They should list every Democrat who voted for Roberts and Elito's confirmation

they are doing injustice to their progressive readers not printing such a list. A learners list!

[PSPS]

7. Media companies are the biggest winners, so this is no surprise.

When a "Manchurian Corporation" decides to buy an election, its money will be spent on advertising. It's mostly TV, then radio and papers like the Denver Post.