Professor Robert MacCulloch: Don't Trust the Biased AUT "Trust in the News" Survey.

Why blame Winston for weakening democracy & defend RNZ manipulation of Ukrainian war "news"?

How can the Auckland University of Technology "Trust in News" report - which should be a dispassionate reporting of scientific survey results on perceptions of media bias - have an introduction based on a litany of quotes from biased journos all with the terrifying theme, "Trust us, we're from Big Media and We're Here to Help You How to Think". We don't trust them since nearly every outlet in NZ has gone strongly leftist, whereas the majority of NZ'ers voted for a center-right government. So of course people don't trust getting a one-sided diatribe about most issues when its not even the one we support.

David Farrar: The trust in news crisis in NZ

AUT have published their 5th annual trust in news report and the results are devastating. Rather than blame their woes on Google and Meta, every media organisation in NZ should be critically self-reflective on how they have contributed to this distrust, and what they could do differently to improve things.

JC: Is Govt Owned Media a Good Thing?

Without the necessary analysis of government ownership of media, the answer is probably ‘yes and no’. There are pros and cons. How they play out very much depends on the guidelines put in place by the government of the day. Other questions come into play. Should there be a level of independence? How much influence should the government exert on day-to-day operational matters? To what degree should the government set the preferred direction it would like its media-owned outlets to take? The outgoing government was a disgrace in all these respects.