At a time when the media as such is the subject of controversy, here are some verifiable facts and informed analysis. This year’s Journalism Media & Democracy (JMAD) media ownership report finds that the basic pattern of national media ownership remains: shareholder and private-equity owned corporations, smaller private independent companies, and crown-owned broadcasters. The first sector is dominated by New Zealand Media and Entertainment (NZME), Sky, MediaWorks and Warner Brothers/Discovery. Overall, these entities are owned by financial institutions (listed and unlisted) and telecommunications/media entertainment behemoths with global holdings.
Our report reveals the following significant events:
- TVNZ and RNZ merger process terminated.
- Financially owned Mediaworks abruptly closes radio newstalk station, TodayFM.
- The Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill provides a nationally inclusive statutory framework for negotiated agreements between news publishers and platform operators.
- The Public Interest Journalism Fund (PIJF) ceases operation.
During 2023, broadcasters, print and online publications confronted, to varying extents, the economic power of platforms, streaming companies and financial media owners. The recently elected National-Act-New Zealand First Government won’t advance remedial measures. Broadcasting Media and Communications Minister Melissa Lee is unlikely to support the Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill, or compensatory levies for news publishers on social media platforms. New public journalism initiatives and the very principle of a new public media entity would be resolutely opposed by all coalition partners. Meanwhile, far-right disinformation from the dark web circulates outward into websites, podcasts and the blogosphere. At the same time, Māori broadcast media and their online networks maintain cultural resilience. Nevertheless, in Aotearoa New Zealand, the mediated public sphere is under siege.
What’s the difference between “far-right disinformation from the dark web” and the 6pm News?
Oh, about 2 years.
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Longer than two years, Hoskings was on longer than that and he is far right.
You mean Hoskings is a far right Trump supporter? I’m shocked!
MHK-Agreed.
Andrew – Agreed
Meh! This guys says it for me, Die MSM, Die!
It almost looks like a slow moving coup.
If we don’t pull our heads out from up our arses we’ll lose our AO/NZ. These, are incremental steps slid in under the carpet while we munch down on our Mac N Fries as we gawp at brain-rot tee vee. Peters deserves better than this. He deserves a proper, public, royal commission of inquiry into his Machiavellian role in helping introduce, normalise and popularise the virus some of us refer to as neo-liberalism. Peters should, in fact, be in prison.
( I’m fucking serious man. You got to wake the fuck up and resist! Or we’re fucked! )
Resistance is futile. Accelerate the change…we’re fucked either way.
Enjoy the ride!
Peters is Luxon’s and Rimmer’s useful sideshow to distract from their serious agenda. MSM are generally buying into it.
Nevertheless, Clark and Cullen made it clear Labour is forever tethered to neoliberalism.
Labour are the biggest obstacle to any effort to reverse neoliberalism’s grip.
As long as Labour exist they will remain main benefactors of all effort by left leaning voters to avoid the horrors of the hard-right NAct faction.
Labour have no incentive to move left. None. They haven’t the bottle for any real fights.
It’s become perpetual rinse, repeat.
Supporters of the left should understand this by now or admit to being stupid.
The Labour Party is the prime obstacle to real change.
I completely agree @ R+C.
Who wrote: “The best way to achieve victory is from within the enemy” ? I think I’m paraphrasing BTW.
Oh! Here it is. My old mate Sun Tzu. Funny that. Art of war and all that.
Sun Tzu.
https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780191843730.001.0001/q-oro-ed5-00010536
“Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be defeated. The worst policy is to attack cities. To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.”
Labour’s two term finance minister, Roger Douglas, was lobbied. There can be no denying that based upon the dire evidence now staring us, rat like, in the face after 40 years. david seymour. The roger-clone. There he is. Pinch-lipped with darting, beady little eyes.
Roger and his corrupted caucus did us in and that was a generation or so ago.
That’s why I keep carping on about a public, royal commission of inquiry into the very facet’s of the inner workings of our politics-economy. Our economy, our politics, our very lives are a fiction and that needs to dragged out into the glorious sunlight so we can bleach the lice off our skin. BEFORE ! !!! ! ! ! ! ! !! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !!! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
PAYING ATTENTION PEOPLE! BEFORE! YES! BEFORE!!!!!!!! We’re fucking sold like the subservient little slave-minions they now have us believing we must be.
40 Fucking years of asset stripping and exploitation. Forty years of dutifully building 14 multi-billionaires, 3118 multi-millionaires and all while feeding the rapacious greed of the four foreign owned bankster crocodiles and all that was dropped on us by a short, moustache bristling fucking pig farmer and by farmer, I mean he just kept those poor creatures permanently in small pens and terminally pregnant. Sound familiar?
National, vile sleazemore and Whiny the Dirty fucking traitor to his whanau are mere real estate brokers. The National party, ACT and NZ First have absolutely no interest in us as a people at all. They’re there to cash in on their treachery and they’re there because of a twisted, perverted, sabotaged, toothless Labour party perhaps more correctly identified as a Zombie rendered thus by roger douglas and his confederates.
This YouTube TED talk describes the chain of events leading to our political Zombie Land perfectly. Warning. Metaphor alert!
Ed Yong: Suicidal wasps, zombie roaches and other parasite tales
https://youtu.be/CfqO1U6lfDs?feature=shared
I need to correct a foolish typo on my part in earlier comment:
“benefactors” should read, beneficiaries.
40 years too late, neoliberalism snuck in with Lange’s lot. You want a royal commission the worst of that lot are still alive to answer your questions – like Kissinger even the devil doesn’t want them.
This will be Winstones last hoorah! so, he might as well enjoy it. He will leave a legacy of turmoil and cultural upheaval. As he will be 81 years old at the next election that will be the end of NZF, a one-man band. Winstone is already showing he is losing it, must be from too much tin foil and it has affected his brain (fog), and to make matters worse he is shitting majorly on his own people. He has conspiracy theorist and a Hobson choice senior member in his ranks and how can we justify having a Hobson choice member in roles like the police and health, what hat will Casey Castello be wearing when she makes major decision.
Grab some popcorn or better yet, buy shares in the popcorn factory.
Christopher Clusterfuxon says ‘hold my beer.’
“The end is nigh!” Thank fuck we’re on the home straight!
If you believe Stephen and TPM you’ll be sitting in a slit trench trying to defend your privilege
Going to be an interesting few years.
Maybe the MSM will believe in democracy at the end of it
The fourth estate has been neutralised as N.Z. has it’s first dictatorship government in history…..
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/government-sitting-on-potentially-scathing-review-of-ev-policy-using-new-rules-to-refuse-releasing-report-to-public/ar-AA1lpP98?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=a6f93d95b8b54f8c853c9e78e888bffb&ei=10
So it’s 2008 all over again. Willis cancels funding to Infrastructure of Picton ferry upgrade.
So the underfunding in Infrastructure starts all over again. National/ACT and NZ First have destroyed this country, after it was just getting going again after Nationals previous 9 years.
the bbc was right up the tories bums over brexshit, now a few at this late date are showing some spine…cosmetics only and careerists bailing
Yuri if you think the BBC was pro-Brexit, you have serious problems with reality.
pope check the coverage for instance question time confessed to specifically recruiting pro brexit audiences…and we won’t even mention kussenburg etc hows your reality???