Reply #165: The press was a business, from a century before the US existed.

[eallen]

You're right, that the companies didn't have modern corporate law. But they still were businesses. <i>Not</i> natural persons.

Are you really suggesting that freedom of the press covers newspapers only if they are organized as, say, partnerships, but not as chapter S corporations? Which would exclude virtually every major paper, from the <i>New York Times</i>, on down?

In any case, if your criterion is how a business is organized, that is different from applying it only to natural persons.

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