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"You only have to add a few adjectives in there and then you're telling people what *you* think ... And then you can put 'analysis' at the top. But in today's world the public wants and is ask for a much clearer distinction between news and opinion."
Dr #GregTreadwell, 2026
Maybe news websites ought to have their opinion sections under subdomains, eg opinion.rnz.co.nz, with a recognizably different masthead and page appearance?
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"Research conducted at the Centre for Media, Journalism and Democracy (JMAD) shows public trust in news is falling dramatically in Aotearoa New Zealand. The reasons for this loss of trust are complex ...
But any attempts at rebuilding that trust and its role in a functioning democracy will be futile if the public perceives the production of news to be now largely controlled by self-interested global corporates."