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    From Gordon@Gordon@leaf.net.nz to nz.general on Sat Nov 8 22:40:50 2025
    From Newsgroup: nz.general

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/mediawatch/578304/saving-the-marriage-of-journalism-and-the-people

    At last the media is reporting on itself.

    Does seem that they have the bullet points to get back to their job of
    holding the Goverment of the day accountable.

    Whether or not they can get back to business remains to be seen.
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  • From Crash@nogood@dontbother.invalid to nz.general on Mon Nov 10 11:10:36 2025
    From Newsgroup: nz.general

    On 8 Nov 2025 22:40:50 GMT, Gordon <Gordon@leaf.net.nz> wrote:

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/mediawatch/578304/saving-the-marriage-of-journalism-and-the-people

    At last the media is reporting on itself.

    Does seem that they have the bullet points to get back to their job of >holding the Goverment of the day accountable.

    Whether or not they can get back to business remains to be seen.

    This 'trust in the media' thing no longer matters.

    Prior to the internet, each of us had access to relatively few daily
    news sources - probably one newspaper, one TV News, Radio NZ and one
    private radio network (if that). In that context media
    trustworthiness and balance were important.

    Now though there is a huge range of different sources available. We
    can make our own choices, based on how different journalists report on
    the same news event.

    The reality is that all journalists, like all of us, have specific
    political views. It is now their choice on how they report the news.
    While trying to achieve political balance may be desirable it is no
    longer as important as it once was.

    The only is on each of us to do our own due diligence on news sources.
    --
    Crash McBash
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  • From Your Name@YourName@YourISP.com to nz.general on Mon Nov 10 12:48:34 2025
    From Newsgroup: nz.general

    On 2025-11-09 22:10:36 +0000, Crash said:
    On 8 Nov 2025 22:40:50 GMT, Gordon <Gordon@leaf.net.nz> wrote:
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/mediawatch/578304/saving-the-marriage-of-journalism-and-the-people


    At last the media is reporting on itself.

    Does seem that they have the bullet points to get back to their job of
    holding the Goverment of the day accountable.

    Whether or not they can get back to business remains to be seen.

    This 'trust in the media' thing no longer matters.

    Prior to the internet, each of us had access to relatively few daily
    news sources - probably one newspaper, one TV News, Radio NZ and one
    private radio network (if that). In that context media
    trustworthiness and balance were important.

    Now though there is a huge range of different sources available. We
    can make our own choices, based on how different journalists report on
    the same news event.

    The reality is that all journalists, like all of us, have specific
    political views. It is now their choice on how they report the news.
    While trying to achieve political balance may be desirable it is no
    longer as important as it once was.

    The only is on each of us to do our own due diligence on news sources.

    There's also the fact that the actual "facts" and accuracy have become
    less important.

    In ye olde days there was also somewhat less urgency. The newspaper was printed at a certain time, the TV news was a at a certain time. So
    jouranlists could spend more time gathering the facts.

    These days there's always a rush to be "first" and journalists rarely
    get or check the fact properly. This often results in the same news
    story having different "facts" on different news sources - for example,
    one will say 3 people injured and 1 killed, while another will say 5
    people injured and nobody killed, etc.

    This in itself simply makes the news media less reliable and less trutstworthy.


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