nz's slipping main-stream media

Who would have thought that continuing to push government propoganda and wokist cult crap even while hemorrhaging viewers/listeners was not a good business model?

the left doesn't believe the public can interpret 'facts' without their guidance

they actually question the very concept of 'facts'

as in a 'fact' has no point if it doesn't help the inevitable march of progressive groupthink  progress

kind of explains their hatchet-job on education

Loving how Winston first is still ripping into te media party.


Winston on the media

Winston Peters writes:



Over the past four years the sign-up of media outlets to receive $55 million of public funding through the Public Interest Journalism Fund has cemented that mistrust from the public for obvious reasons – most of which, it seems, is lost on the very media outlets that received those funds.



It is a plain fact that for media organisations to be eligible for funding they had to sign up to certain criteria and conditions – including forcing certain narratives of the Labour government at the time. …



One of those conditions is based on a purely political view that is not supported by many New Zealanders or many political parties. It states that the media organisation must “actively promote the principles of partnership, participation and active protection under Te Tiriti o Waitangi acknowledging Māori as a Te Tiriti partner”. And have a “commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and to Māori as a Te Tiriti partner”.



If they didn’t sign up to this condition, they wouldn’t get the money.



How can a politically neutral and independent media organisation give balanced political commentary, analysis and in particular “opinions”, when this is the basis for the funds they receive for their very survival?



This is the sinister incentivised seed that provides the platform for political bias.



It is a preposterous state of self-denial when they cannot see that the contract they signed is a recipe for bias and corruption.



It has created a media environment where certain leftwing political narratives and agendas have seeped into much of what the media presents to the public – where any opposing views are shutdown, cancelled and labelled as “far right” or “fringe”.



This is spot on. The media should have refused funding which had Treaty partnership belief as a criteria for eligibility. If they had all stood firm, then the criteria would have gone, but they just took the money.

TV3 lost all credibility with me during Covid with their daily Tova and Jessica show with podium of truth.

Apparently TVNZ are about to have a cull too.

Stuffed must be on their last legs. I'm sure most of their readers are only clicking in the same way rubber neckers stare at a mangled car wreck.

and a good summary on Newshub's demise
thebfd.co.nz/2024/03/07/we-are-the-news/
excerpt
Which brings me back to Newshub. Newshub is privately owned. They rely on revenue for their survival. As with Today FM, I’m not sure many journalists have a good understanding or appreciation of this fact. They appear more to live in a self-opinionated bubble believing the audience is hanging on their every word and their existence is non-negotiable. This is where they get into trouble. There appears to be an almost deliberate disconnect with who their audience is. In other words, it’s a case of I don’t care who you are but you will listen to what ‘I’ have to say.
To make matters worse for themselves they present opinions which are heavily biased to the left. That is a turnoff for middle-class people who in this country, history shows, are basically centre-right. Presenting opinions in such a biased way also distorts the facts of a story. Their audience is mainly in the upper demographic and do not want news presented in this fashion; the answer for them is the ‘Off’ button. If you don’t have a large audience you won’t attract sufficient advertising to pay your way. A company like Discovery, now owned by Warner Bros, is not going to treat Newshub like a bottomless pit. Newshub’s finances, like the news they present, are in the toilet.