Supreme Court on Corporate Ads

Our local paper was critical of court ruling on corporation ad during political
campaign, which fired up my gray matter.

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I was not surprised in Steve Ford's column he is in agreement with the
president and his party over last week's Court ruling on corporate ads.

The News and Observer enjoys the protection of the First Amendment yet
believe corporations should not have the same rights.

Using Ford's (and many in Congress) logic, its OK for politicians and the
media to bash "Big This" and Big That", but not allow them to respond.

Its OK for these companies to suffer whatever negative charges, true of
otherwise, are leveled at them, including on the editorial pages, but required
to remain silent in the public arena, not allowed to defend themselves, with
advocacy ads.

It appears it would not concern Ford  to see such attacks lead to lower
stock prices, sales, revenue, and profits, leading to weakening businesses
or perhaps entire industries, costing of thousands of jobs and impacting
communities dependent on these companies.

But, the Court came down on the side of free speech, which said this right
can not be limited  self-serving political and editorial page class, and not others.

So, we can now say, as most Liberals like to do, this is now "settled law."


Regards,
Anthony Bruno
107 Lander Ct.
Cary, NC 27519
919 481-4538