Whenever money changes hands, something goes along with it — an intangible something that varies with the circumstances… Sponsorship in the press is an invitation to corruption and abuse. The temptations are great, and there is an opportunist behind every bush.
In this 1976 letter on the free press and why corporate interests have no place in media, E. B. White nails a great deal of today’s parallel problems – a must-read for any participant in the information economy, which includes just about all of us.
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