BaZ sale: Newspaper should not become a party paper
Ticino financier Tito Tettamanti has commented on the purchase of the Basler Zeitung (BaZ). He stated that the project had not been discussed with any party representative, nor is the newspaper to be turned into a party organ.
This was stated by 79-year-old Tettamanti in an interview with the Sonntag newspaper. "If we want to lose money, there is no better way than to turn BaZ into a party newspaper," said the investor. When asked whether BaZ would slide to the right, Tettamanti replied: "What does that mean?" For him, there are good and bad newspapers, intelligent and boring, courageous, original and conformist. "I just hope that BaZ will be one of the good, intelligent and courageous media." The division into left and right is outdated.
