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To: Texas Fossil

I’m sure I would turn against the 1st Amendment if a printing press fell on me.


42 posted on 10/08/2018 3:14:26 PM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: Rinnwald
How long since you saw an actual printing press?

I remember as a kid going to the local newspaper and looking at their Linotype machine. The owner's son was one of my classmates.

Later in life I worked for a wholesale hardware distribution company who printed their own catalog on an offset press. Very good type quality, but impression cost was high. They used an optical typeset machine. (I was in Sales and sales support then.)

That same company later put in a huge web press. That did not last long.

Late in my career I ran a catalog/advertising department for that company. We sent it all out to be printed. Did scripted publishing from the AS400 to PC’s through Quark to print and mirrored the content for the web. (the actual process was a pure hack, not an integrated path. But we made it work. I did that for 5-1/2 years.)

Long story to say presses were huge and heavy, now it is electronic composition.

First Amendment mentions freedom of the press.

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

So, technically electronic media is not mentioned. It is understood that the First Amendment includes Radio, TV and the web. But there are Federal regulations applied to those potentially monopolistic industries, largely by the licensing of the RF spectrum. Now with the web it is more complicated.

43 posted on 10/08/2018 6:00:22 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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