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...believe that sexism is harmless. We are aware that many of the corporations and groups who seek to advertise in this paper are not, in that sense, "harmless." However, we believe strongly enough in the necessity of free and open discussion, that we are loath to restrict access to advertising to any and everyone who might be "harmful." The standards that this newspaper should apply, we believe, should be designed to allow maximum exchange of information, and should exclude only those advertisements that present a strong, clear and direct link to the perpetration of a gross injustice. Such...
...this responsibility. To completely avoid the possibility of such bias, a newspaper might ideally eliminate all advertising. This, of course, it cannot do, since advertising income is necessary for its publication, and because there are legitimate informational functions of advertising. However, a newspaper does have the right to restrict advertising--a right which does not threaten legitimate free speech--and to restrict it in not just the exceptional cases...
...difficult to feel comfortable with newspapers' exercising this broad prerogative to restrict advertising on the basis of their political views, but surely this is far better than letting the content of advertising be decided entirely by those with the money to pay for it. Since most newspapers must accept most ads they receive for financial reasons, there is little grounds for concern that such policies will tip the balance against the interests of the wealthy...
...over the edge, to invoke the sanctity of a free speech and press, and to deny a newspaper's right to refuse any ads at all. There are those, after all, who hold that a newspaper has no right at all to deny access to its columns--to restrict the right of free speech, in its printed form--to anyone who will pay for it. But those people, thankfully, are few in number...
Around the nation yesterday voters endorsed proposals to limit taxes or spending in five states, rejected propositions to extend legal gambling in three states, and favored an ordinance to restrict the legal rights of homosexuals in Florida while opposing a similar ordinance in California...