Govt must resist private media bail-outs: Horton

Govt must resist private media bail-outs: Horton
Pattrick Smellie
The government must allow privately-owned news media to fail, says the owner of the country's largest private newspaper printing company, Horton Media.Chief executive Matthew Horton's comments came just before Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern angrily rejected suggestions the government's covid-19 national lockdown was to blame for today's shock closure of the Bauer Media stable of much-loved magazines."Within a couple of days of the New Zealand government announcing the lockdown, Bauer contacted the minister and told him they weren't interested in...

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