Judge says risk to society ‘is a meaningful one’ that would believe ramifications for quality of nation’s democracy The high court of unusual Zealand has rejected a proposed merger between the country’s two largest print media companies,ruling it would believe concentrated media ownership to such a degree that it threatened the country’s democracy. In May the Commerce Commission rejected the device to merge NZME, which owns the unusual Zealand Herald as well as a slew of local papers and radio stations, or Fairfax Media,which owns the country’s most popular news website, Stuff, and as well as three metropolitan daily newspapers. Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk