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Lamar Smith: Would you consider in that case a city that had a morning and an afternoon newspaper and you had one of the papers…

On the recordApril 20, 2009
Would you consider in that case a city that had a morning and an afternoon newspaper and you had one of the papers purchase the other, would you consider that to be questionable?
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Lamar Smith
Republican · Texas

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Smith questions the implications of newspaper mergers in cities with competing papers.

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