What's interesting about this is that while the promise is that the merger would only be with a smaller station within a market, here in Phoenix, Gannet (owner of the Arizona Republic, USA Today and around 60 local papers) has a deal with the local NBC station (merger, partnership, ?) that started with a website, azcentral.com While its not exactly a threat since as this article states there are a lot of other news sources, it challenges the claim that such connections will be limited to local papers and local stations.
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What's interesting about this is that while the promise is that the merger would only be with a smaller station within a market, here in Phoenix, Gannet (owner of the Arizona Republic, USA Today and around 60 local papers) has a deal with the local NBC station (merger, partnership, ?) that started with a website, azcentral.com While its not exactly a threat since as this article states there are a lot of other news sources, it challenges the claim that such connections will be limited to local papers and local stations.