While I find the merger of Dow Jones and News Corp. troubling on many levels, I have to agree with Jeff Jarvis that the government should not be involved for ideological reasons. If there is an antitrust issue, that is one thing but as he says:
It is not government’s role to punish speakers for their speech.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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