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Plainly anti-competitive Fairfax-NZME merger should be blocked

OPINION: Why the merger won't work for readers, advertisers or the companies themselves. With special feature audio.

MATTHEW HORTON
Wed, 15 Jun 2016

APN and Fairfax’s application to create New Zealand’s first newspaper monopoly should be rejected.

They have hidden an audacious bid to obliterate competition in the print market under a blanket of gripes about online media but their application would forever remove any plurality in what is still

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MATTHEW HORTON
Wed, 15 Jun 2016
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