Then Pietro Supino snapped it up and this unique opportunity was lost. And that is why the press landscape looks like this: most important cities of Zurich, Bern and Basel, while the AZ-NZZ group can only operate in the secondary locations of St. Gallen, Lucerne and Aarau, where the music plays much quieter.
And that brings us to Christoph Blocher, who after a long uae rcs data period of lying finally had to admit that he had snapped up the "Basler Zeitung". He explained that he wanted to use it primarily to combat the monopolization of the Swiss media landscape. He and circles associated with him also got involved in the Media Freedom Campaign in order to score political points with this issue. But then Blocher ran out of steam. The multi-billionaire quickly cashed in, even though his "Basler Zeitung" was, according to his own statements, making good profits.
However, as the assessment of the future prospects did not promise anything positive, the Basel pearl was sold off for as high a price as possible.