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From the Ivory Tower
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Can we solve the problem of Kiwi media bias for $1?

OPINION: What $1 could buy you in the media.

Robert MacCulloch Tue, 24 Aug 2021

There once was a time when the owners of big newspapers were among the wealthiest, most powerful, folks in town. They could swing elections. Give you a good name or a bad name. Australia had the Packers, Fairfaxes and Murdochs. In Auckland, we had the Hortons at the Herald. A swath of politicians

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