21 May 2012 - 11:10 pm NZ time
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A media frenzy about a four year-old; the PM pans the press; The Herald’s editor on what will change as the paper prepares to go tabloid; is the ‘Save TVNZ7’ campaign flogging a dead horse? (35′31″)
TV1+1 to replace TVNZ7; the burgeoning business of online endorsements; a bad geography apology; the push to make cyberspace more civil; a new university-sponsored news show - a model for more intelligent telly or just a new marketing method? (33′09″)
Memorable media moments featuring John Banks; anger over more taxpayer-funded reality television; TV3's Duncan Garner on provocative political journalism; a bid by broadcasters to head off more state regulation of the media; armed Kiwis on the high seas makes great TV- but not great journalism. (35′34″)
Influence peddling: are journalists on the agenda of the lobbyists who persuade politicians?; how think tanks are teaming up to increase their impact; a big-name broadcaster confronts conflict-of-interest claims. (35′32″)
Critics cry foul over ultra-fast broadband - and claim consumers could lose out; loose reporting of a sensitive story in the US; more on compromised coverage of the controversial convention centre deal. (36′34″)
Will ultra-fast broadband mean broader choice for TV viewers? claims Sky could corner the online market for pay TV; controversial comments about women at work revisited; TVNZ names a new chief and the BBC seeks a new boss. (35′31″)
The Mediawatch team runs through listeners' queries and comments - and updates recent stories from Mediawatch. This month: Reaction to revelations about Sky City's media clients; anguish over public subsidy for commercial TV shows while public TV dies; 'Marmageddon' and other media-driven food frenzies; yet more spurious Nazi comparisons. (38′49″)
A new subscription service offering TV, movies - and competition?; the newsman gambling with his reputation; a play questioning media manipulation in the digital age; good news buried by bad news about a man who made it possible and; are today's teens really more conservative? (35′31″)
Commercial deals for media personalities - the compromises and conflicts of interest they can create; Finland's fury over a minister's mischief. (35′26″)
The writing on the wall for evening papers; blogging broadcasters - and broadcasting bloggers; a controversial new law; Marmageddon: the end of the world - or just the media gone mad? (35′28″)
Clouded coverage of the Ports of Auckland dispute; are we missing old-fashioned industrial reporters?; one man's account of unwanted media attention at a traumatic time; the blurry line between advertising and editorial. (35′23″)
Non-commercial public TV's disappearing - but the public's still paying for entertainment shows on commercial channels; a bad broadcasting stat that got a great run; reports that a TVNZ's show not getting a Fair Go; the looming deadline for input on a new regime to regulate the media (35′34″)
Emotional coverage of a law and order campaign; the Fiji regime's hired help; anguish over Wellington's 'spy car'; The Muppets trump welfare reform on TV; the backlash from taking the mickey out of Te Kuiti; rugby's literally got problems. (35′27″)
The challenge for media in Christchurch - reporting the recovery while rebuilding themselves; how the quake has changed journalists jobs - and their lives; reporting the anniversary from Japan; reborn Beirut bites back. (35′26″)
The Mediawatch team runs through listeners' queries and comments - and updates recent stories from Mediawatch for the first time in 2012. This month: the PM's front-page reflections on Christchurch; the "censorship" scandal which sparked a media breastfeeding frenzy; contempt for our coverage of Occupy; reaction to "Rhinoceros" buying into Fairfax; corporate-style media management of university academics; TV One puts natural history in prime time; what can be called a "holocaust"? ; return of Tuku's underpants. (42′29″)
Mediawatch looks critically at the New Zealand media - television, radio, newspapers and magazines as well as the 'new' electronic media.
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