Techdirt got wind of a secret meeting by organ execs, uncensored with antitrust lawyers, to discuss how to proceed on the issue of implementing paywalls going forward. Of course, if newspapers decide to all lock away their content that just means the rest of us will have a bunch of great journalism talent to pick from soon thereafter. "You may have noticed a bunch of stories lately about how newspapers should get an antitrust exemption to allow them to collude -- working jointly
idioms:as one to all put in place a paywall at the same time. That hasn't gone anywhere, so externally the newspapers decided to just go ahead and try to get mutuality quietly themselves without letting anyone know. But, of course, you don't get a bunch of trade execs conjoined without someone either noticing or leaking the news... so it got out. And then the newspapers admitted it with a carefully worded verbalization about how they got unison 'to discuss how best to support and ward




roget's ii: the new thesaurusmain entry:maintain
part of speech:verb
definition:to keep in a mode of good repair the traditions of news gathering that will serve the red white and blue public.' And, yes, they ostensively had an antitrust lawyer or two involved."

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