This annual New Zealand Media Ownership Report is the only one of its kind. To celebrate the release of this year’s report you are cordially invited to watch it live today here on The Daily Blog. To understand why our media behave the way they do, you need to know who owns them.
In other countries with a sophisticated enough media, such threats by Media Corporates would dominate headlines alongside a critical analysis providing insight into how these media monoliths undermine the quality of our democracy. Unfortunately we live in NZ and have a media with the maturity of your average can of coke.
Heather du Plessis-Allan is getting more media attention by getting dumped from Story than she ever did as a bloody journalist on the network.
I thought I couldn’t stand the endless navel gazing our Media undertakes as they perform autopisies on our national psyche with screams of ‘why we should hate ourselves’ whenever the bloody All Blacks lose.
On the NZ Herald there was breathless news that Mike Hosking uses a vacuum cleaner to clean his studio with and that some of his colleagues played a prank on him by hiding the aforementioned vacuum cleaner.
Comrades, it’s that time of the month when we put out our begging bowl and ask you our dear readers to contribute cash if you believe the NZ media landscape desperately needs a counter voice.
People who are economically hurting and feeling excluded didn’t care about the facts and the legitimate news sources, they were overloaded on information and selected the candidate who didn’t make them feel belittled.
Prime TV and Sky TV deserve to take a bow. Their courageous Pike River Mine doco on Monday night was riveting, full of drama and finally gave NZers a chance to understand the abomination that our insanely under regulated safety standards allowed to occur.
That the news media can be so easily manipulated by forces it only vaguely perceives and understands is a bitter pill to swallow. But it is far from being the most unpalatable of the home truths which Trump’s election served up.
Long live the Queen!