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The End of Long-Form Current Affairs
Sarah Baker Associate Professor, Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology The imminent demise of TVNZ’s Sunday program demonstrates the TV current affairs genre in New Zealand is on its last legs. The death knell was sounded back in 2015 when TV3 axed its nightly Campbell Live program, but this
The Unhappy Woke
A study surveyed 5,000 adult participants and found that those who are “woke” are more depressed, have more anxiety and lack happiness. As reported, “Being more anxious and depressed and less happy was more pronounced in” those who consider social justice, believe the Net Zero scam and make a
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Ad-Free Media? No Such Thing
Viv Forbes saltbushclub.com Viv Forbes has been listening to the ABC for over 70 years, since the days of Rus Tyson and “Blue Hills”. It was once the only station trusted for news, weather and rural news. But now he has even stopped watching “Landline” because it too has
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Our Readers Enjoy Champagne on a Beer Budget
In 2021 Stuff reported on the extent of media bludging from government troughs. It is eye-watering just how much taxpayer coin some media organisations have availed themselves of. Media companies large and small claimed funding from the Government’s media package last year. In April 2020, Broadcasting, Communications and
Watch Out for the Spin
Lyn F Having been an editor for over a decade, including subediting newspapers, I’m astounded at the state of New Zealand’s current mainstream media. Have reporters forgotten the creed of their craft? Are they not taught what true reporting is now? I’m beginning to think not. The
No, I Don’t Trust the News Either
bobmccoskrie.com In the weekend media coverage of Donald Trump’s “bloodbath” comments and Winston Peter’s “Nazi Germany” comments, they were misrepresented. They weren’t given with appropriate context. And the outrage to both comments has been inconsistent from the media. If the media were consistently calling out both
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Democracy Dies in Darkness
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A PR Offensive Won’t Save Their Jobs
According to Herald Media Insider, Shayne Currie, a number of well-known TVNZ faces, including Miriama Kamo, Jack Tame, Indira Stewart and Anna Burns-Francis feature in an E tu union publicity campaign – all lending support to the importance of news and current affairs. This, to my mind, is a
Like Teasing a Kitten With a Laser
Mr Peters used hyperbole: the N-word. He plays the media using rhetoric exactly as someone teases a kitten with a laser. My, oh my. They are so stupid. The kitten loses interest after five minutes, and the NZ press still can’t get a grip on themselves forty-eight
A One Size Fits All Protest
Students will take to the streets on April 5 in Christchurch, Auckland, Dunedin and Hamilton (I’ve spared you the Maori names) aided by free nationwide news coverage provided well in advance. “…biggest protest yet…” is embedded in the headline promising something that hasn’t happened yet and includes video