Comments on: A Fairfax-NZME Merger Would Be Bad News For All Of Us – Coalition for Better Broadcasting

By: gsays

gsays — Thu, 12 May 2016 03:52:10 +0000

Hopefully this will open up an opportunity for some true local newspapers ERS to spring up.
Our local rag has ‘amalgamated’ with two other publications. Seems to me its less local news and lots more out of town real estate listings.

By: RightOn

RightOn — Wed, 11 May 2016 09:39:24 +0000

It won’t be bad for the rest of us in the sense that it couldn’t get much worse than it is now.

By: tony

tony — Wed, 11 May 2016 09:35:13 +0000

Problem has always been that we don’t have a national newspaper (though most of us have a National newspaper), and each centre has a monopoly situation. At least we have had a smidgeon of competition between TV1 and TV3, and between the online services of the duopoly. So far.

By: CLEANGREEN

CLEANGREEN — Wed, 11 May 2016 05:24:26 +0000

I was told years ago when my Dad was alive in Australia that when the Australian press was taken over by Rupert Murdock it would throttle Aussie?

Aussie has at least a free voice in ABC and a Corruption Commission we have neither now.