Attorney General Looking Into Sale of Connecticut Dailies to MediaNews

ATTORNEY GENERAL LOOKING INTO SALE OF CONNECTICUT DAILIES TO MEDIANEWS
[SOURCE: Editor&Publisher]
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says he's monitoring reports that one of the country's largest newspaper chains might be interested in buying The Advocate of Stamford and Greenwich Time. MediaNews Group already owns the Connecticut Post in Bridgeport, The News-Times in Danbury, and several weekly papers in Fairfield County. The president of The Hour Publishing Company, which owns The Hour in Norwalk and weekly papers in Wilton and Stamford, wrote to Blumenthal to say MediaNews might have an unfair competitive advantage in southwestern Connecticut if it buys the two papers. They have a combined circulation of 35,000.
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