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Hunter's Corner: Water bottlers bear brunt of a media beat-up

Pandering to prejudice is not the path to progress.

Fri, 02 Jun 2017

Days before media companies NZME and Fairfax appealed the Commerce Commission’s rejection of their merger proposal, the danger of a dominant news outlet was on display.

“Ratepayers charged 500 times more for water than bottling companies,” a headline in the NZ Herald last week said.

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