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Quick Hit – BSA Scrapped: Coalition Kills Regulator After It Tried to Muzzle the Platform
The Platform case exposed how the 1989 act was being stretched to capture internet livestreaming. Removing the BSA reduces the compliance burden on independent outlets and shifts power back to audiences rather than bureaucrats.
Face of the Day
“... we could try and extend the brief of BSA far into sort of social media, or we could say, well, actually, why don’t we just rely on the self-regulation that works fine for print journalism and set the sector free” – Media and Communications Minister Paul Goldsmith.
Good News the Media Won’t Tell You
As the media, through their newsrooms and reporters, refuse to do their jobs and report balanced news, we are reliant on contributing writers to ferret out the honesty of what is happening.
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Labour’s Māori Seat Suicide Pact: Butt Hurt vs Butt Hurt in a Pre-Coalition Brawl
This contest is a genuine test of whether these two can ever function together. Labour needs the seats to get close to power. Te Pāti Māori needs to hold them to keep their leverage.
Quick Hit – English Language Bill: Peters Lands a Symbolic Bomb on te Reo Virtue Signalling
Peters is forcing the political class to confront that English is the language that actually unites the country.
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The authority said the majority of members found the comments appeared intended as a humorous anecdote focused on Henry’s friends’ unfortunate travel experiences and could not be said to implicitly refer to, or target, Indian people in this way.