Printing Contract News Today

Partisan. the only economic model that worked for the first 125 years or more of the republic was each party, each fax had a newspaper. the incumbent party would give the congressional printing contract to the favored newspaper. it was really only in the early 19th -- 20th century, rather, where we began to have the idea that you would have facts and make a decision on your own. of course, the fairness doctrine with radio and television. so, i think the 19th century analogy is really important h...

19th century model where the media was inherently partisan. the only economic model that worked for the first 125 years or so was each faction had a newspaper. the incumbent party would give the printing contract to the newspaper. and it was really in the 20th century we began to have the idea you would have facts and make a decision on your own. and of course the fairness doctrine with radio and television. so i think the 19th century a l analogy is really important here. and what we have to do...