{"id":20092,"date":"2017-12-19T01:23:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T00:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/12\/19\/new-zealand-merger-of-two-largest-print-media-companies-blocked-by-high-court\/"},"modified":"2017-12-19T01:23:36","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T00:23:36","slug":"new-zealand-merger-of-two-largest-print-media-companies-blocked-by-high-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=20092","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand: merger of two largest print media companies blocked by high court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judge says risk to society \u2018is a meaningful one\u2019 that would have ramifications for quality of nation\u2019s democracy The high court of New Zealand has rejected a proposed merger between the country\u2019s two largest print media companies, ruling it would have concentrated media ownership to such a degree that it threatened the country\u2019s democracy. In May the Commerce Commission rejected the plan to merge NZME, which owns the New Zealand Herald as well as a slew of local papers and radio stations, and Fairfax Media, which owns the country\u2019s most popular news website, Stuff, as well as three metropolitan daily newspapers. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/dec\/19\/new-zealand-merger-print-media-companies-blocked-high-court\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand: merger of two largest print media companies blocked by high court<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge says risk to society \u2018is a meaningful one\u2019 that would have ramifications for quality of nation\u2019s democracy The high court of New Zealand has rejected a proposed merger between the country\u2019s two largest print media companies, ruling it would have concentrated media ownership to such a degree that it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}