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"... the Department of Corrections had posted a procurement notice on the website of GETS, the Government Electronic Tenders Service. Which is often scanned by journalists looking for stories about budget government spending."
#ColinPeacock, 2026
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=1ba02017-cc5b-4b48-b24a-b600be58987c
Not really a secret. So Mitchell not knowing about it is just more evidence that he's not paying attention to what's happening in his portfolio. The kneejerk response is typical though.
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"Dr Bryce Edwards is a transparency campaigner, used to run a thing called the Integrity Institute, which had backing to research these issues, now it's called The Democracy Project ..."
#ColinPeacock, 2026
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=e7df26f7-0add-4051-a4ac-36568ba69994
Really? It's news to me that The Democracy Project is a rebranding of the Integrity Institute. I thought the latter was a newer initiative. Can anyone confirm?
#MediaWatch #IntegrityInstitute #DemocracyProject #RNZ #podcasts
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"When ad spend on media peaked 20 years ago, advertising accounted for 1.25% of our entire GDP. But now, in this increasingly digital days, it's around 0.75%."
#ColinPeacock, 2026
So what does this tell us? What all the wailing and gnashing of teeth about the big DataFarms hoovering up most of the remaining ad spend obscures or avoid admitting;
Advertising is a dying industry. Has been since the net went mainstream.
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🚨 An investigation reveals the Israeli X account Gazawood spreads large-scale disinformation claiming Palestinian "lies" in Gaza. Only 5.75% of its "debunks" are credible. Key figures include an Israeli writer, a US historian & a former Israeli general. Stay informed, question the narrative. 🕵️♂️📉 #Disinformation #Gaza #MediaWatch https://forbiddenstories.org/gazawood-israeli-ngo-links-account-disinformation/
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"[Pattrick Smellie says of future news outlets] they'll be smaller, driven by editorial concerns rather than advertising imperatives. Today's ... news publishers he said, both in Australia and NZ, have in practice now become real estate advertising platforms, with newsrooms attached."
#ColinPeacock, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=a2db3e6a-d412-44ff-880b-c9c90f7a449f
Burn!
For those who can afford to vault the paywall, Smellie's full piece can be read here;
https://businessdesk.co.nz/article/opinion/the-future-of-news-yet-another-reckon
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#Mediawatch
La decisione di #Zuckerberg è meramente economica: sostanzialmente ha colto la palla al balzo per risparmiare. I costi per la #moderazione dei #contenuti sono di fatto enormi e semplicemente #Meta li vuole tagliare. Sebbene l’attenuazione della moderazione sia stata interpretata come una mossa di #destra, potrebbe favorire “le idee di #sinistra”. Per esempio in molti si lamentano delle continue censure relative ai post su #Gaza, accusando Meta di essere pro #Israele.Mauro Crepaldi
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#Zuckerberg dice addio al fact-checking di terze parti su #Meta: cosa significa e come cambiano #Facebook e #InstagramDa un lato, Meta sostiene che il cambiamento favorisca la libertà di espressione e riduca i pregiudizi politici; dall’altro, gli esperti temono che possa aumentare la diffusione di #contenuti falsi e ridurre l’efficacia nella lotta contro #disinformazione e fake news. Alcuni parlano di “avvicinamento” tra Zuckerberg e #Trump.
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"These days innovating means following the audience and operating online. But those who do are not always rewarded with the required revenue.
Unless you can get enough online supporters or subscribers to pay, which also means trying to secure digital advertising - and the vast bulk of revenue from that goes offshore to the companies which have cornered that market."
#ColinPeacock, 2024
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Here's a questionable claim from a NZ public servant:
"There are [internet platform] companies that hold way more information about individuals and businesses than the [GCSB] would ever be able to access..."
#AndrewHampton, Director-General, #GCSB
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"[Voices for Freedom] put out certain flat out misinformation ... that the jab doesn't stop you getting COVID and doesn't stop you transmitting it ..."
#ColinPeacock, #RNZ #MediaWatch
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018849166/midweek-mediawatch-noise-over-nurses