Reply #5: So, what corporation publishing something wouldn't be a "press corporation"?

[eallen]

Some corporation that formerly specialized in technology and appliances decides to make a movie. It's a press corporation, right? And if not, how is that different from GE?

If publishing something makes a corporation a press corporation, then for the purposes of the 1st amendment, there is no need for that distinction. Those that do do. Those that don't don't. So it doesn't matter. (And I don't think the case law ever has made that distinction.) But if you want to draw a legal distinction between "press corporations," which presumably have 1st amendment rights, and other corporations, who do publish things but whose publications don't enjoy 1st amendment protection, then you need a reasonably clear legal rule about what counts as a press corporation or what doesn't.

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