RNZ Shake-up: Why Brent Impey Could Be Good for Public Radio
RNZ gets Brent Impey, Paul Thompson heads for the exit and Maiki Sherman’s fall still says plenty about political journalism. Martyn is not pretending to be neutral.

RNZ gets Brent Impey, Paul Thompson heads for the exit and Maiki Sherman’s fall still says plenty about political journalism. Martyn is not pretending to be neutral.

Luxon said Winston Peters mischaracterised him on Iran. Now his own office says the evidence doesn’t exist. That is not a footnote, it is the story.

RNZ is suddenly worried about disinformation. Fine. But who is asking why foreign military intelligence infrastructure operated from Waihopai without ministers knowing?

NZ corporate media gave itself another shiny dinner while the Fourth Estate burns, the BSA gets torched, RNZ gets threatened, and journalism is eaten alive.

The Government is once again selling public service cuts as “efficiency” while New Zealand faces economic instability, climate disasters and collapsing infrastructure. The real debate isn’t bureaucracy, it’s whether the State still has the capacity to function.

The Government’s new policing laws are triggering fears of expanded surveillance powers and the criminalisation of political protest.

Better Public Media says scrapping the Broadcasting Standards Authority would weaken journalism standards just as trust in media is already collapsing.

Corporate media are pearl clutching over collapsing public trust, but decades of elitism, clickbait and consolidation helped create this crisis.

David Seymour attacking RNZ from The Platform is Temu Trump theatre: bully the broadcaster, sneer at journalism, then call it free speech.

Were Kiwis “caught up,” or illegally detained at sea? RNZ’s wording is now part of the story.