Re: the brown thumb...
^the mass media and its customers is one market that cannot possibly benefit from regulation and oversight, indeed, it must be kept completely private and government-free at all costs (for obvious reasons).^
How obvious? I am told here that government control and regulation improves and makes workable almost every conceivable human activity. Why should information dispersal be any different? :)
And to be more accurate, mass media has been heavily regulated for years, including content requirements (now looser than they used to be). Not newspapers so much.