By Matthew Cunningham, includes “This morning I received an e-mail from the OC Register’s parent company, Southern California News Group, urging action to ‘save local newspapers’ … Governments spend huge amounts annually on such publishing requirements. In the pre-Internet era, the requirement made sense from the perspective of open government. But the Internet provides a far less expensive platform … The only reason to not only retain it but add a preferential mandate for local newspapers is to prop up the revenues of newspaper publishers.”