Post by Kiwi Frontline on Nov 9, 2023 3:53:36 GMT 12
Graham Adams: WAKEY, WAKEY, MAINSTREAM MEDIA!
The mainstream media has done its very best for years to avoid serious analysis of co-governance even as independent outlets have repeatedly dissected its manifestations in policy and law. The most vital lesson for a journalist to take from the Talbot Mills data should really be that they have failed miserably, despite their efforts, to convince many voters co-governance is fair, equitable and democratic.
Moir is not alone, of course, among mainstream media journalists who happen to stumble across well-known truths belatedly — or even accidentally. Late last month, Newstalk ZB’s Mike Hosking read out part of a column by political commentator Chris Trotter that referred to the eligibility criteria governing access to the $55 million Public Interest Journalism Fund. The requirements to access the cash included presenting the Treaty as a “partnership”.
Some of Hosking’s audience seemed shocked to discover that PIJF cash had strings attached regarding the Treaty. As one listener tweeted: “Did I hear Hosking right this morning? As a condition of the $55 million journo fund being paid… they had to sign up to a new interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi? Please tell me I got this wrong so I can delete this tweet!”
This bewildered cry for help was answered quickly by more than a hundred tweeters, many of whom confidently pointed out the Treaty criteria in the PIJF guidelines, and even referenced NZ On Air’s follow-up guide, “Te Tiriti Framework for News Media”, which makes the criteria for state cash even more explicit. In fact, alarmingly so, given that its radical guidelines insist that Māori “never ceded sovereignty to Britain or any other state” and “our society has a foundation of institutional racism”.
Commenters repeatedly noted they had heard the news on The Platform, which has covered this topic extensively for more than a year. Unlike Hosking’s listeners, no one who regularly tunes into The Platform would have been surprised by the link between the PIJF and coverage of the Treaty. Nor, for that matter, would any of those who regularly read other independent media sites, including the NZ Centre for Political Research, The BFD, Point of Order, the Democracy Project, The Common Room, and Bassett, Brash and Hide.
Of course, it is the MSM’s compromised position on that subject — and its unwillingness to tackle many other contentious topics in depth, including trans issues and climate change — that has fuelled the boom in independent media over the past two years in particular.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/11/graham-adams-wakey-wakey-mainstream.html
The mainstream media has done its very best for years to avoid serious analysis of co-governance even as independent outlets have repeatedly dissected its manifestations in policy and law. The most vital lesson for a journalist to take from the Talbot Mills data should really be that they have failed miserably, despite their efforts, to convince many voters co-governance is fair, equitable and democratic.
Moir is not alone, of course, among mainstream media journalists who happen to stumble across well-known truths belatedly — or even accidentally. Late last month, Newstalk ZB’s Mike Hosking read out part of a column by political commentator Chris Trotter that referred to the eligibility criteria governing access to the $55 million Public Interest Journalism Fund. The requirements to access the cash included presenting the Treaty as a “partnership”.
Some of Hosking’s audience seemed shocked to discover that PIJF cash had strings attached regarding the Treaty. As one listener tweeted: “Did I hear Hosking right this morning? As a condition of the $55 million journo fund being paid… they had to sign up to a new interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi? Please tell me I got this wrong so I can delete this tweet!”
This bewildered cry for help was answered quickly by more than a hundred tweeters, many of whom confidently pointed out the Treaty criteria in the PIJF guidelines, and even referenced NZ On Air’s follow-up guide, “Te Tiriti Framework for News Media”, which makes the criteria for state cash even more explicit. In fact, alarmingly so, given that its radical guidelines insist that Māori “never ceded sovereignty to Britain or any other state” and “our society has a foundation of institutional racism”.
Commenters repeatedly noted they had heard the news on The Platform, which has covered this topic extensively for more than a year. Unlike Hosking’s listeners, no one who regularly tunes into The Platform would have been surprised by the link between the PIJF and coverage of the Treaty. Nor, for that matter, would any of those who regularly read other independent media sites, including the NZ Centre for Political Research, The BFD, Point of Order, the Democracy Project, The Common Room, and Bassett, Brash and Hide.
Of course, it is the MSM’s compromised position on that subject — and its unwillingness to tackle many other contentious topics in depth, including trans issues and climate change — that has fuelled the boom in independent media over the past two years in particular.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/11/graham-adams-wakey-wakey-mainstream.html