TRUST IN NEWS DECLINES, RNZ AND TVNZ THE MOST TRUSTED FOR COVID INFORMATION
The AUT research centre for Journalism, Media and Democracy (JMAD) has published its second Trust in News in New Zealand report which examines New Zealand citizens’ trust in news, news brands, and journalism. During the past year, New Zealanders’ trust in the news has eroded. In 2021, 48% of New Zealanders trusted news in general (down 5% on April 2020 survey) and 55% trusted the news they consumed themselves (down 7% on April 2020).
The report is co-authored by Dr Merja Myllylahti and Dr Greg Treadwell.
“In general, trust in the news has decline because the news media is seen as increasingly opinionated, biased, and politicised,” says JMAD co-director Merja Myllylahti.
The survey conveys that New Zealanders want factual information and not opinion dressed up as news, the researchers say.
As in 2020, RNZ and TVNZ were the most trusted news brands and also the most trusted sources of information about Covid-19. Social media platforms were the least trusted sources for news and pandemic-related information.
Newshub and Māori TV were, jointly, the third most trusted news brands. However, Newshub and Newstalk ZB news brands experienced a statistically significant decline in trust.
The Trust in News in New Zealand report is produced in collaboration with the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. For the 2021 report, 1,226 New Zealand adults (18 years of age or older) were surveyed between March 4 and 9 by Horizon Research Ltd. The survey has a maximum margin of error at the 95% confidence level for the total sample of ±2.8%.
It’s incomprehensible that any New Zealander still trusts the MSM.
No mention of that egregious woke-establishment propaganda agency Stuffed? The worst (along with the Spinoff) of a despicable bunch.
There is NO trust in NZ media what so ever. There is possibly manufactured consent (see Noam Chomsky) and finding ‘useful idiots’ to ask opinion of for media to show as ‘typical views’, again see manufactured consent.
Wake up sheeple, the NZ media is vastly and almost utterly JUST PROPANGANDA for the wealthy uber elites to get their way.
Until you wake up to this fact you are just preverbally ‘shouting into a hurricane’.
‘As in 2020, RNZ and TVNZ were the most trusted news brands’
How sad.
I rarely watch TVNZ because it is so awful but was in a room when accelerating melting of galciers was mentioned.
After TVNZ reported the accelerating planetary meltdown there was no discussion about the causes of the dire, and rapidly worsening, predicament we are in because TVNZ had to get onto the ‘really important’ news topic, the restructuring of rugby in NZ.
Somehow it doesn’t occur to TVNZ executives that without a livable planet there will be no rugby.
We know what it’s all about: the advertisers’ dollars. Can’t scare the horses by broadcasting real news, that the whole system is destructive, and as a consequence of its destructiveness is now in terminal decline.
Some are saying the world becomes largely uninhabitable for humans a few years after the last of the ice floating in the Arctic sea vanishes. Credible reports (Scripps Institute) say the last of the ice is likely to be gone in 2022.
We used to be subjected to ‘Bread and circuses’. Now we are now subjected to ‘Bread and circuses’ without the bread.
Be a climate denier while profiting from killing the planet and others, then purchase your super yacht. It’s like the private planes leaving India….
Stuff the new woke on the block with declining trust is taking over from RNZ which toned it’s “woke” down a bit after suggesting removing the Concert FM in favour of a new station for youth aimed at low syllable communication for the….
students launch petition after being flummoxed by word ‘trivial’ in NZQA exam https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/108620095/students-launch-petition-after-being-flummoxed-by-word-trivial-in-nzqa-exam
Soon media they can join Auckland Council where in 2017 only 17 per cent of survey’s respondents say they trust the council to make the right decisions, and that 47 per cent do not.
Auckland Council responded by trying to stop people reading by 1 million in library fines https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-libraries-poised-to-ditch-fines-entirely-in-bid-to-increase-patronage/SXISP4AU5TZSQWEPULORN3SRH4/, then spent the revenue on marketing spin to let the ratepayers know how wrong they are.
Not sure that News Hub ever recovered from the hit on removing John Campbell and Campbell Live.
The only good thing about Stuff WAS the comments, then Stuff knocked them on the head because some were nasty. Go Woke, Go Broke.. then get a bailout from Labour.
NewsHub Nation is still unavailable on ALL my browsers – their login system doesn’t work. I decided to bite-the-bullet and watch it on my phone (chrome browser), unfortunately it’s still UNAVAILABLE unless you download ‘threenow’s app’ – NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!
It’s really tragic that NZ-on-Air is still funding this sh*t show of a news organization. I’m pretty close to blocking the domains of threenow, NewsHub and Magic Talk. They’re a laughing stock in the IT community.
NZ-on-Air are disgusting for funding a show unavailable to the younger generation. Labour are disgusting for repeatedly bailing out their terrible business model, which isn’t even a business model.
Bog rolls too good for property spruiking sell out granny herald. That granny eats its kids.
Things TVNZ and Radio NZ will NOT tell the viewers/listeners.
1. The financial system is a gigantic Ponzi scheme, propped up in the short term by ever-greater ‘money-printing’ by central banks, and doomed to collapse in a matter of a few years (at best) and possibly in a matter of months.
2. Global extraction of conventional oil peaked around 2007, and the unconventional oil extraction business which has been propping up economic arrangements for well over a decade is in dire straits because of low oil prices and rapid depletion of fracked wells.
3. Planetary overheating -due to excessive use of fossil fuels- has reached the rapid meltdown stage, at which there is extreme danger of the Earth being rapidly thrown into an entirely new climate regime dominated by severe and lasting droughts, termination of water supply systems such as that of Lake Mead in the US, increasingly severe superstorms that wash away infrastructure, and collapse of much (or all) of the industrial agriculture system.
4. Collapse of health systems worldwide (but especially in the developing world and the US) as a consequence of out-of-control epidemics and underlying health ‘issues’ (such as obesity and diabetes) that are a consequences of ingestion of commercially manufactured ‘foods’ that are high in processed starch, fructose and vegetable oils and low in healthy protein and essential nutrients.
5. Population overshoot is now of the order of 7 billion -the vast majority kept alive in the short-term by the excessive (and unsustainable) use of fossil fuels.
6. Corporatised and internationalised sport has no future.
7. The currently growing gap between the rich and the poor will continue to grow in the short term until a massive crisis is generated, after which the impoverished masses and impoverished ‘middle classes’ will turn on the ‘elites’ in something resembling the French Revolution.
So what TVNZ and Radio NZ have to do is keep the lid on that lot and keep pretending none of it is happening, and that the ‘problems’ we are encountering can be fixed by the banks and corporations and worse-than-useless politicians who got us into this mess.
I need a list of those in the 48% because I have shares in the Auckland Harbour Bridge to sell them.
jay11 – MOST APT/RELEVANT/PERTINENT comment. Thankyou!!
News based on facts, and Opinion free news? I’ll believe it when I read it. Sounds like a cross between a shopping list, and Literature. Should be fun to read.
A boy fell from a roof
10am
Monday
when we say boy, we mean he was preadolescent,
or at least not sexually active (proof pending)
IMPACT
Doctors assume he will live.
The roof was not high
Several people were looking the other way, we weren’t even there.
From which point do we measure the height? From the toe, from the head, did he try to arrest his fall?
If only we had a perspective. What is time?
FACT
He is HUMAN.
GRAVITY.
Monday, is a matter of opinion.
I mean, at least you won’t be swayed to vote National to regain control over your investment property fiefdom. When Martyn Bradbury starts talking about kicking in the walls and windows of slumlord properties, is it opinion, or emphasis done in the Bomber style, or both? Does it make the story more understandable, relateable, complex? Does it ask a question? Does it make a sound? Is it recognisable?
Opinion isn’t really the problem, as long as someone knows opinion exists, and which direction it’s pointed. When Dr. Greg Treadwell was writing for The Gulf News, did the things he write have context and chronology, follow a trend, even when he deliberately tried to create a foil to the trend? Is that an illustration of opinion? Is it a breach of facts, or one of their limitations?
Well didn’t we have the same senario happening when John was our PM Im right, and wasn’t he taking our media on overseas trips and when they came back they appeared to be brain washed. And didn’t we have all those right wing media get all the cushy jobs in Keys time. So what are you moaning about they are having turns and its the lefts turn now, we put up with those right wing whingers for nine long years.
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