MEDIAWATCH: Labour’s Media Summit desperately needed
On The AM Show on Friday, Former Broadcasting Minister Willie Jackson spoke about a Media Summit he’s setting up with some of the best journalists and media academics coming together to discuss the state of the media and how to protect Fourth Estate Journalism.
Media isn’t just another business, it has fundamental roles in the functioning of a healthy Democracy and because the audience size in NZ has never ben able to support an advertising based model, it has always required State assistance.
I think people Labour should invite are:
Dr Merja Myllylahti – JMAD
Gavin Ellis – News Academic
Matthew Tukaki – Māori Media Commentator
Professor Wayne Hope – AUT School of Communications
Barbara Dreaver – Award winning Journalist
Joe Atkinson – Media Academic
Mihi Forbes – Māori Broadcaster
Myles Thomas – Better Public Broadcasting
John Campbell – Broadcaster
Michael Wood – E Tu Union
Let’s bring together the real visionaries and leaders in our media landscape to debate the future of public broadcasting.
Willie said he had sent a letter to Broadcasting Minister Melissa Lee to ask her along to this Summit.
Let’s see if she turns up.
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I think you should be included on that list.
Looks like a talk fest.
Labour leaders are still coming to grip with the fact they lost and hoping it was all a bad dream .They hope to wake up with Jacinda back at the head and the public swooning at her every word .
Once the truth sinks in they will gives Hipkins the flick and find a new leader
Hipkins and Jacinda both yesterday’s news. Labour will continue to wallow in inertia until Hipkins goes.
They have both had their time. Whether they acquitted themselves really well or not is of no consequence, they are both yesterday’s people.
Let’s have new blood. Labour has the people, they just have to decide who should lead them. And they need to get on with it. Time is passing and every week we are battered by more arrogant cruelty and casual ignorance from the govt.
Agree with Lone Comet that MB should be part of this media summit.
Also with Nathan, that many news outlets seem scared of public opinion. Even the Herald used to have a great comments section, no paywall to it. What are they so frightened of? Do they really want to know what the public thinks or not?
This hiding behind a paywall means there’s precious little to actually read for free in the Herald. I’m surprised their opinion writers are agreeable to being blocked from sight to so many.
If MB can run this site on the smell of an oily rag, the Herald et al could be doing a lot better.
Excellent opinion.