This is edition 2025/89 of the Ten@10 newsletter.
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This is the Ten@10, where I collate and summarise ten news items you generally won't see in the mainstream media.
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1. Former Dominion Editor: 'Fed up with the bias'
Philip Crump
- 📰 It’s common to find insightful articles about New Zealand in overseas publications.
- 🌏 Karl du Fresne, former editor of The Dominion, recently published in The Spectator Australia.
- 🚪 Traditional media can't be exclusive gatekeepers anymore; writers now reach readers directly.
- 📱 Politicians increasingly bypass traditional media using social platforms for direct communication.
- 🔄 Concerns raised about media impartiality shifting towards opinion and clickbait.
- 🤝 Winston Peters and du Fresne criticize mainstream media's loss of trust due to biased reporting.
- 📉 Mainstream journalism has shifted from objectivity to opinion and narrative.
- 👩🎓 Young, university-educated journalists are changing journalistic standards.
- 🎭 Journalism schools now produce reporters with different approaches.
- 📚 Journalism training has moved from workplaces to universities, influencing ideological bias.
- 🛌 Strained business models and new journalist profiles challenge media companies.
- 📝 Du Fresne suggests a return to objectivity and balance to restore trust in journalism.
- 🔍 Reflective critique by du Fresne highlights the crisis of trust in New Zealand’s media.
- 🌐 New Zealand’s media faces challenges but can preserve trustworthy journalism by upholding core principles.
