After reading the Boston Globe article about how the U.S. Postal Service wanted to raise the price of mailing periodicals, it made me think of how scared everyone is of the truth. Just because these independent publications don't have the biggest budget doesn't mean they can't find ways to reveal the truth.
My favorite line of the article was: "This is a clash pitting big-time publishers against small journals that enrich the public debate far more than their modest budgets suggest."
The tentative price increase was due to corporations, such as Time Warner and the mammoth publisher for over 100 magazines. This was their way of forcing their beliefs onto others and watering everything down to fit their agendas.
Though the independent publications' content can be published online, magazine subscriptions are how these publications make their money. It's wrong to charge more money for more truth.
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