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# About as Non-partisan as You Can Get
- URL: https://goodoil.news/about-as-non-partisan-as-you-can-get/
- Published: 2024-04-23T20:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-04-23T22:31:17.000Z
- Author: idbkiwi
- Tags: Media, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-06-28 02:24

I listened to a Mediawatch bulletin from *RNZ* and heard the authors of the Trust in Media report exhorting news outlets to carry less opinion, emphasising that the issue of opinion, and the slant of such, was a major, very major, concern to news-consumers and a huge factor in the decline in trust we place in those outlets.

‘Thus refreshed I turned to local rag *The Post* to be enlightened by three long opinion pieces, all by academics, all criticising the Government. What an uncanny coincidence. One was by a fellow Davis, Peter if I recall correctly, head-spokesperson for a ‘Helen Clark Foundation’ which, apparently is ‘a non-partisan think-tank’, which, along with criticising the Government alluded to the importance of non-partisan think-tanks, especially his.

As an illustration of their very good ‘non-partisan’ think-tanking Davis highlighted a ‘recent discussion’ hosted by them: ‘a current policy debate’ which, encompassing the full breadth of New Zealand’s non-partisan political spectrum, included two former prime ministers, one named Helen Clark, the other Geoffrey Palmer. That’s about as non-partisan as you can get, I reckon.

As I digested those three long opinion pieces, all by academics, all criticising the current Government, I recalled the words of several *BFD* commenters who alluded to contemporary news outlets ‘not listening’ to their respective audiences, but frankly, I’m not sure what you’re all talking about. I mean: who wouldn’t pay $3.60 a day to read three long opinion pieces by three academics all critical of the current Government? I can’t fathom why *The Post*‘s readership is in a nosedive rate of decline, but I guess that’s because I’m not blessed with the same genius as their editor.

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