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...charges include six counts of lying to Congress and withholding information; obstructing a presidential inquiry and making false statements to investigators; altering, shredding and concealing documents; receiving an illegal gratuity, a security system at his home; stealing money from an Iran-Contra account and conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service...
...advertisements, we cannot begin to call for--or offer--free speech because we do not offer equal access; only those who have money can afford to use our advertisement pages as a medium. And, to compound this inequity, we, as the producers of our advertising, attempt to charge the highest prices possible in order to bring in the 'best' revenue--profits that reflect our own self-interest. Clearly, advertising cannot be included in the ideological notion of a "free press...
...media, we already set limits on advertising, and in the past, we have, in fact, chosen not to run advertisements because we found them offensive to women and because they represented a contribution to a social discourse from which we could not, in all good conscience, accept money...
...machinists' union ourselves, we would argue that Eastern has the right to sell its commodity in someone else's advertisement space. In addition, we would welcome Eastern's political opinions on our editorial page. But we don't want Lorenzo's business, we don't want his money and we don't want to be accomplices to his tactics by having his product on our ad pages...
...accepting any advertising, we put ourselves in a difficult position. Clearly, we need businesses' money to survive as a newspaper. But, financially, we don't need to accept all advertisements from all companies. In pulling Eastern's advertisement, we are not asserting that we can achieve any moral purity; rather we hope to take a step in the right direction because doing something is better than doing nothing...