Mediawatch RNZ Radio
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Mediawatch looks critically at the New Zealand media - television, radio, newspapers and magazines as well as the 'new' electronic media.
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Midweek Mediawatch - Kate, Coutts, murder in Moscow
Midweek Mediawatch - Colin Peacock talks to Emile Donovan about the dolphin drama that divided the nation (and the media) last weekend - and royal revelations that overshadowed a terrorist atrocity in Moscow. Also: the PM and party leaders drop hints about upcoming policy to help cash-strapped news media.
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Mediawatch for 24 March 2024
Mediawatch looks at the fallout from Winston Peters' criticism of the media in his State of The Nation speech.
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Midweek Mediawatch - Rod Oram; state of the Winston
Midweek Mediawatch - Mediawatch’s weekly catch-up with Nights. Hayden Donnell talked to Emile Donovan about Winston Peters attacking the news media in his State of the Nation speech - and the death of Rod Oram, a much-admired journalist dedicated to coverage of business and climate change. Also: how many journalists are left in New Zealand - and the rights and wrongs of airing 'hot mic' comments.
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Mediawatch for 17 March 2024
What will government do about the great TV news meltdown?; Stuff deploys AI for DIY news.
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Stuff deploys AI for DIY news
Artificial intelligence tech threatens to take our eyeballs even further away from the outlets which produce news - but it’s also a tool they can use to make more of it. This week Stuff - which has warned AI could wreck the business of journalism - used Chat GPT to write a stories about readers' opinions. Mediawatch asks an unimpressed editor if we all just have to get used to this now.
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Midweek Mediawatch - manic Monday for news & fake photo frenzy
Midweek Mediawatch - Mediawatch’s weekly catch-up with Nights. Colin Peacock talks to Emile Donovan about a manic Monday afternoon of news - cricket, Oscars, terror in the skies . . . and the post-Cabinet media conference. Also: the royal photo fakery frenzy; political responses to the TV newspocalypse; US politics satirised and fact-checked by TikTok; the leap-year community's struggles.
Customer Reviews
Long form media criticism
I listen to this now more than I do it's US counterpar, On the Media. The review of the week's happenings format is well sutied to the topic, although it is pretty quickly apparent who the bad actors are.