IODICALS

PRESS & TELEVISION
have compromised press independence; however, government aid has
not improved the circulation of weaker newspapers.
In West Germany, where the government of Chancellor Helmut
Schmidt has been debating press subsidy plans, conservative pub-
lishers (including Axel Springer, who owns Die Welt and many other
papers and controls 25 percent of the country's daily newspaper circu-
lation) have opposed direct government aid in favor of tax concessions
and an opportunity f...