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Climate policies burn on the bread and butter bonfire
9:12 AM.Chris Hipkins won media plaudits for his political strategy after scrapping or deferring some of Labour's policy in his latest policy bonfire, including ones to reduce emissions. But a poll released… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 19 March 2023
9:08 AM.Polls and policy bonfire create climate contradiction; a muted media response to March 15; apology; talk radio outbursts spark apology. Read more Audio
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Mis-match of the day at the BBC
10:00 PM.Midweek Mediawatch - Colin Peacock talks to Todd Zaner about how a former footballer took on the top brass of the BBC - and won. Also: a confronting front-page story about a high-profile death - and… Read more Audio
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Kids and consultants - Media run the rule over opposition policy
9:12 AM.The National Party unveiled two dove-tailed policies last weekend - pumping up childcare subsidies while cutting down on consultants to cover the cost. Mediawatch looks at how the media ran the rule… Read more Audio
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Big bills for aborted media merger - but what next?
9:10 AM.The broadcasting and media minister spoke about the collapse of the public media merger for the first time this week when a Parliamentary committee asked about the sums spent on it. He gave little… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 12 March 2023
9:08 AM.Media run the rule over policy on kids and consultants; Michelle Duff on journalism and switching to fiction; awkwards questions over media merger bills - and what comes next. Audio
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Mediawatch for 12 March 2023
9:08 AM.Media run the rule over policy on kids and consultants; Michelle Duff on journalism and switching to fiction; awkwards questions over media merger bills - and what comes next. Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - transport reporting skids and u-turns
9:58 PM.In this week's Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Susana Lei'ataua about some skids and u-turns in transport reporting, a growing glut of daily news podcasts - and a new online outlet for… Read more Audio
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Documenting the March 2 convulsion one year on
9:12 AM.Coverage of the occupation of Parliament was wall-to-wall in our media as it dissolved into violence and came to an end one year ago this week. An RNZ team has trawled the overflowing archive of… Read more Audio
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Signal to noise - is AM radio really under threat?
9:10 AM.Old-fashioned AM radio was an information lifeline for many during Cyclone Gabrielle when other sources wilted without power. Now a little-known arrangement that puts proceedings of Parliament on the… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 5 March 2023
9:08 AM.Documenting the March 2 convulsion one year on; apology to Tim Beveridge; claims that AM radio is in jeopardy; is the G-word still fit for primetime TV? Audio
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G-word deemed a slur in news, but still fit for primetime TV
9:07 AM.Does a surprising call by our broadcasting watchdog about a fleeting TV news item months ago mean that a primetime TV show shouldn’t really be on our screens right now? Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - contested crime wave claims
10:05 PM.In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Susana Lei'ataua about the media covering claims of a post-Gabrielle crime spike that was questioned by Police; the fiery exit of… Read more Audio
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Claims and counter-claims on post-cyclone crime spike
9:12 AM.Media on the ground in cyclone-hit communities found road-blocks and local people reporting looting, theft and threats backed up with firearms. Meanwhile police and politicians insisted there was no… Read more Audio
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Boring old infrastructure rises to the top of the agenda
9:10 AM.Once the scale of Cyclone Gabrielle’s destruction became clear, politicians of all parties agreed restoring and improving our infrastructure is our top priority. We’re told we’ve underinvested in it… Read more Audio
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Climate minimisation still has a foothold in media
9:08 AM.National MP Maureen Pugh was censured by her bosses and made to walk back her words after calling man-made climate change into question earlier this week. But similar sentiments still find a platform… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 26 February 2023
9:08 AM.Claims and counter-claims on post-Gabrielle crime spike; boring old infrastructure surges to the top of the agenda; climate minimisation still has a foothold in the media. Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - cyclone talkback backlash
9:39 PM.Midweek Mediawatch: Colin Peacock talks to Susana Lei'ataua about coverage of Cyclone Gabrielle's destruction - and the backlash against talk radio hosts who played the disaster down early on. Also… Read more Audio
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Radio hosts fixate on schools closing as Gabrielle closes in
9:10 AM.Cyclone Gabrielle buried homes and took lives, including those of rescuers, this week. But as it bore down on the country, front-rank hosts at Newstalk ZB played down the danger it posed… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch - before and after Gabrielle
9:08 AM.Our media were in emergency mode yet again this week, offering hours of extra coverage on air, online and in print. Outlets in the hardest-hit places reported the basics - even without access to… Read more Video, Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - Covering another catastrophe
7:52 PM.Midweek Mediawatch - Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Nights. Hayden Donnell talks to Susana Lei'ataua about some good journalism - and some ill-advised commentary - on Cyclone Gabrielle. And in… Read more Audio
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Supermarkets shaping the food price story
9:10 AM.Recent media reports have blamed rising grocery prices on supermarket suppliers and even shoplifters. One business journalist is calling on the media to focus on the market power of our supermarket… Read more Audio
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Southlander goes solo to tell southern stories
9:08 AM.Logan Savory spent years covering local stories for the long-established local daily paper Southland Times. Now he’s gone solo in the Southland Tribune - which sounds like a paper but isn’t. Why the… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 12 February 2023
9:08 AM.Media merger out of its misery; supermarkets shaping the food price story; Southlander goes solo to tell southern stories. Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - the day the merger died
7:50 PM.Midweek Mediawatch - Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Nights. Colin Peacock talks to Karyn Hay about the government dumping its public media plans - again - and Karyn talks to National's Melissa Lee… Read more Audio