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Our Man Matt Welch on Free Newspapers…

Nick Gillespie | 2.3.2005 1:55 PM

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…and more in a Christian Science Monitor story about the DC Examiner, the new high-profile giveaway paper:

"You'll have people say, 'what's going to happen to our democracy with the whole democratization of media?'" says Welch. "Hmmm. Let's see if we can spot the contradiction."

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