tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post3421764537555990736..comments2024-03-29T17:12:19.648+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: Willie Jackson’s New Network Will Go Fishing For a New Audience.Chris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-18876742562508912852022-12-14T07:31:05.579+13:002022-12-14T07:31:05.579+13:00"81% of journalists are left of centre 81%&qu..."81% of journalists are left of centre 81%"<br /><br />And the proportion of editors and newspaper owners? I would say close to 0%. And who has the power? Not the journalists when stories are spiked in case they offend large business advertisers.Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-38835659599300953212022-12-13T21:29:19.858+13:002022-12-13T21:29:19.858+13:00" News media are considered untrustworthy by ..." News media are considered untrustworthy by 38% and very untrustworthy by a further 16%"<br /><br />The issue of trust in the media is a world-wide problem, unsalvageable in my view. This isn't really a side issue to the merger question in New Zealand. <br /><br />The Munk Debates are a semi-annual series of debates on major policy issues held in Toronto.<br /><br />This debate is worth watching because Gladwell and Goldberg were incapable of defending themselves. Long, takes 98 mins.<br /><br />'Be it resolved, don't trust mainstream media' - Munk Debate. Nov 30th 2022<br /><br />Douglas Murray and Matt Taibbi argued that the MSN cannot be trusted, New Yorker contributor Malcolm Gladwell and columnist Michelle Goldberg of the New York defended the MSN. Murray and Taibbi won with the largest swing in the event’s history, moving from a 48%-52% voter deficit to a 67%-33% win. ajnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-44270180213199827972022-12-13T14:16:12.563+13:002022-12-13T14:16:12.563+13:00My Two Cents Worth.
Keep RNZ and TVNZ separate.
...My Two Cents Worth.<br /><br />Keep RNZ and TVNZ separate.<br /><br />TVNZ to be ad free or almost so. No more movies where they play the first 20 minutes ad free, then start playing six minutes of movie in between five minute ad breaks.<br /><br />Two free to air channels, TV-1 and Maori TV. Maori TV play a lot of good movies and documentaries.Shane McDowallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09354384369518580573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-42191872610906684192022-12-13T07:50:34.179+13:002022-12-13T07:50:34.179+13:00"Welcome to a world where consumers don't..."Welcome to a world where consumers don't pay for journalism any more, and so the upper class does.<br />Welcome to a world where people no longer vote for their interests or their values, because they have been herded into a social media tribe by the algorithms.<br />Welcome to a world where the facts don't matter, because with enough "influencers" you can just make your own facts.<br />Welcome to a world where democracy is becoming impossible."<br /><br />What's behind the lack of trust of media? I suspect the first 3 statements on this quote. We have long had commercial radio and television, but it wasn't always put at the disposal of people whose desire it is to promote and promulgate neoliberalism. I don't think we have any branches of Murdoch media in NZ – although I might be wrong – but if so perhaps we should be grateful for small mercies.Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-62996232857372641262022-12-13T07:47:55.563+13:002022-12-13T07:47:55.563+13:00Any delusions, frequently presented here and elsew...Any delusions, frequently presented here and elsewhere, that our media are representative of Kiwis generally have been put to rest by this latest study out from Massey University.<br /><br />81% of journalists are left of centre 81%<br />15% right of centre <br />20% left to extreme left<br />1% right to extreme right<br />Ethnic diversity is reasonably representative, gender representation significantly female - approaching 60%. <br /><br />https://www.farmersweekly.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Worlds-of-Journalism-Study-2.0.-Journalists-in-Aotearoa-New-Zealand.pdf<br /><br />I wonder if Willie & Co are concerned about this extremely unbalanced diversity of opinion. David Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04883628159193125307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-28625200125165751942022-12-12T08:18:41.016+13:002022-12-12T08:18:41.016+13:00The Herald had a report on trust in our institutio...The Herald had a report on trust in our institutions - from their WEF suck up series "The New New Zealand: Rebuilding Better". News media are considered untrustworthy by 38% and very untrustworthy by a further 16%. <br /><br />"That’s right, media are the least trusted institution in New Zealand, by a proverbial country mile. Which makes for a hilarious dichotomy when the second-least trusted institution, the government, is creating a modern equivalent of Soviet era Pravda by merging TVNZ and RNZ, on the basis that people no longer trust the media. Willie Jackson can’t see the problem, but I sure can and so can you, without a shadow of a doubt."<br />https://thebfd.co.nz/2022/12/12/trust-the-media-not-any-time-soon/David Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04883628159193125307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-28009886875919983352022-12-11T15:12:24.432+13:002022-12-11T15:12:24.432+13:00Many years ago in a land far from here, then, and ...Many years ago in a land far from here, then, and not so far now, Lucille Ball featured in a programme; 'I Love Lucy' It was a very popular U.S. comedy that made people laugh which the Vietnam War news didn't, and the TV station that slotted the programme into its peak evening viewing knew that advertisers would pay grandly for the right to peddle their goods and services during the course of the programme.<br /><br />And so it was, until a survey revealed that viewers of 'I Love Lucy' were so enamoured by the plots that they would discuss the programme in the frequent advertising intervals, rather than sit woodenly being assaulted by expensively provided commercials. A balancing act was needed. 'I Love Lucy' creators were told to make their product marginally less 'exciting' to better audience receptions for what was thrown at them during the 'breaks'. A 'better balance' apparently.<br /><br />Happy zombies springs to mind.<br /><br />Commerce was everything, and entertainment and information was, and still is, tailored to that end. And so it increasingly is here too. Free-to-Air TV is insufferable, consisting of a deluge of constantly repeated implores to spend,and pitched at the lowest common denominator of audience credulity, intelligence, and patience. Consumption brainwashing!<br /><br />Radio NZ is the only lifeboat really left for those punch-drunk from enthusiastic commercial exhortations. Crapitalism reigns supreme, and its auditory and visual assaults on the captive citizenry of this sad little land are only likely to increase with Willie Jackson's visions for our future.<br /><br />In 'The Time Machine', a far future world is peopled by humans who have evolved into Morlocks and Tweenies. The former live underground, intelligent, creative, and brutal, food-harvesting the Tweenies, who mindlessly cavort in the sunshine above.<br /><br />Hmmm!<br /><br />Alan<br /><br />Alan Rhodesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-72961941756985454882022-12-11T11:44:41.553+13:002022-12-11T11:44:41.553+13:00Jesus Brendan, you obviously never listen to natio...Jesus Brendan, you obviously never listen to national radio at all. Kathryn Ryan is always having businesspeople on to comment about this that and the other, and incidentally get free advertising for their businesses. I can't remember the last time she had a union representative on there.<br />Admittedly, much of the rest of it is fluff these days.Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-75652127136343316272022-12-11T11:20:48.117+13:002022-12-11T11:20:48.117+13:00Chris, I don't think that you can have listene...Chris, I don't think that you can have listened to RNZ National of late. It has become as woke as (to use the New Zealand vernacular). Thank goodness we managed to save RNZ Concert.Jack Scrivanonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-37101771734149177272022-12-11T10:36:53.051+13:002022-12-11T10:36:53.051+13:00Chris
You are overly generous in your praise of t...Chris<br /><br />You are overly generous in your praise of the ABC and RNZ National. Far from representing the views of all Australians and New Zealanders respectively, they are zealously ‘conservative free’ zones. They are an exemplar of Woke in respect to their subject material, their guests, their programming. <br /><br />I drop by occasionally to confirm my observations, and then revert back to the Concert program. I’m not a huge fan of Opera or brass band music but even those segments are preferable to the ideological monotone of National radio.Brendan McNeillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02741263914308842497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-40218511395411176292022-12-11T10:36:12.697+13:002022-12-11T10:36:12.697+13:00We bridled when Willie Jackson cried out," De...We bridled when Willie Jackson cried out," Democracy doesn't work for Maori!" No it doesn't. We can see why. Trouble is it doesn't work for the rest of us either, when limited thinkers of Willie's and Nanaia's ilk get so much power. As we endure this infuriating situation, just praying it can be adjusted when they are swept into oblivion (How long Oh Lord!) we have to ensure a better political structure.nicholastwignoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-42940956676808692022-12-11T06:51:01.984+13:002022-12-11T06:51:01.984+13:00"insufficiently “woke” to be herded in the di... "insufficiently “woke” to be herded in the direction Labour favours"<br /><br />What do you call a government that believes it should be "herding" the people; as this one clearly does?<br /><br />You can't be serious Chris. The ABC and BBC as examples of the type of "platform upon which all New Zealanders, espousing all manner of ideas and opinions, will be made to feel welcome".<br />Those two institutions are openly hostile to anything outside the approved narrative. I've not seen any sort of welcome from them for folk questioning their approved covid, climate or trans or race narrative. Balanced they are not. It's easy to imagine Jackson's totalitarian fantasies finding common cause with those two.<br /><br />TVNZ and RNZ have become woke moralisers as well and, in the case of TVNZ, purveyors of childish tatt. Is there really any justification for their continued existence under tax payer funding. The claim that they fairly represent "all manner of ideas and opinions" is demonstrably untrue; Jackson's Pravda would be worse. Perhaps Jackson & Co really believe that people will just sit there like idiots and be told what to think. What the hell do we want government dicking around with the media for in the first place. Get rid.David Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04883628159193125307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-40366658077984612762022-12-10T21:27:12.533+13:002022-12-10T21:27:12.533+13:00I rather think that the BBC that is described here...I rather think that the BBC that is described here is the BBC that long ago became a long-vanished speck in the rearview mirror. If this article is correct, Willie Jackson's creation will become - unfair, unbalanced, silencing the voiceless - exactly what the BBC is today: a Tory echo chamber. All you have to do is survey the treatment Jeremy Corbyn received at the hands of the BBC over the last 5 or 6 years. It was pitiful. That's just for starters.<br /><br />The fact is that in the entire Anglophone West, the 4th Estate has become so politicised that one hears talk of the emergence of a FIFTH Estate, the longed-for genesis of which has been attributed (among others I can think of) to Julian Assange. God knows we (the people) need an alternate voice. In a way, whatever Willie Jackson creates will be neither here nor there, neither one thing nor another, distinct from the existing service - "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose...".<br /><br />Cheers,<br />IonArchduke Piccolohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15533325665451889661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-43958868261930715822022-12-10T16:27:10.484+13:002022-12-10T16:27:10.484+13:00You are too kin d about Willie Jackson and guessin...You are too kin d about Willie Jackson and guessing what plans he has for the merged entity. The reference to commerciality is relevant. But the requirement to fit with government policy is more to the point, Four months out and we have no idea about content. Jackson lobbied heavily for the ministerial appointment and Ardern give it to him knowing the dangers. It was a cavalier decision from a leader who does not care about broadcasting and journalism<br />John Drinnannoreply@blogger.com