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Article: Detroit Newspaper Puts Focus on Meese; Free Press Argues Its Survival Is at Stake
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- The Washington Post
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- March 20, 1988
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With an almost evangelical zeal, executives of the Detroit Free
Press have been trying to convince Attorney General Edwin Meese III
that he could be forced to shoulder the blame for the death of their
157-year-old newspaper.
Publisher David Lawrence, in particular, has spent the last two
months waging an emotional campaign to convince Meese that unless he
grants a controversial antitrust exemption to Detroit's two big
dailies, permitting them to combine their noneditorial operations,
the Free Press will close and surrender its long, bitter newspaper
war to the Detroit News.
Meese will decide the fate of the Free Press because of the
Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970, a unique piece of ...