impending rate hike ... [passed with] plenty of corporate lobbying, would reward big publishers, while [bankrupting] these smaller periodicals

Small Magazines, Big Ideas | Bill Moyers

It's time to send an SOS for the least among us--I mean small independent magazines. ..
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Our founding fathers knew this; knew that a low-cost postal incentive was crucial to giving voice to ideas from outside the main tent. So they made sure such publications would get a break in the cost of reaching their readers. That's now in jeopardy.

An impending rate hike, worked out by postal regulators, with almost no public input but plenty of corporate lobbying, would reward big publishers like Time Warner, while forcing these smaller periodicals into higher subscription fees, big cutbacks and even bankruptcy. ...