
Mediawatch for 13 August 2023
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The Rise of Public Money in the Media
The amount of commentary opinion analysis that gets thrown at any story these days is enormous. Back in the 90s, it would be a straight news story and there might be a sternum editorial in the Dominion Post about ministerial hijinks. These days, there seems to be a lot more appetite from the audience to consume the commentary... There are a lot more people pumping out a lot more stuff. One thing that has changed, back in the day, if we could put it like that, public money went to the public broadcasters. That was the purpose. Now that's not the case with the local democracy reporting service, which pays local papers effectively to employ or news outlets to employ reporters.
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