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Every so often in the current press enthusiasm about free newspapers, someone says something along the lines of "But there is concern that advertisers could unduly influence editorial lines". Does anyone keep a list of this somewhere?

Searching the web for this, I was amused to see:

"€œMoradvertisers ask us to blur the lines between advertising and editorial,"€Nina Lawrence, publisher of Bride and Modern Bride, told Advertising Age.

as if wedding magazines weren't utterly and irremediably complicit in the wedding industry anyway.

Some time ago, I compared the Independent to taz. This is extremely unfair, because die tageszeitung carries practically no advertising, relying instead on personal subscriptions.

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