#mediawatch — Public Fediverse posts
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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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Aerei militari #Usa e #Nato viaggiano con i #transponder spenti?
ChatGPT: “È una prassi comune soprattutto per:
- voli di ricognizione elettronica (es. #RC135, P-8 Poseidon, droni Global Hawk);
- missioni con bombardieri strategici (#B52, #B1, #B2);
- caccia in missione di intercettazione o pattugliamento vicino a confini “caldi”.
#analisimilitare #mediawatch -
#Transponder accesi o spenti?
Gli aerei militari #Usa volano nelle aree di crisi con i transponder spenti? /2
ChatGPT: “Gli aerei militari invece sono esentati: possono spegnere il transponder per ragioni operative, di sicurezza o di segretezza della missione”.
#analisimilitare #mediawatch -
#mediawatch #informazionimilitari
Gli aerei della #NATO comunicano ai russi i loro piani di volo?
Risposta di ChatGPT: “Di norma no. Gli aerei NATO che operano vicino allo spazio aereo russo, ad esempio sul Baltico o sul Mar Nero, non sono tenuti a comunicare ai russi i propri piani di volo. In molti casi volano con #transponder spenti e senza piano di volo depositato, proprio per non dare informazioni sulle missioni”. -
"[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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"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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#JarKacz mówi że mamy rząd niemiecki i a Polacy nie chcą Tuska. #bekazpis
Ps republika nie umie w belki, to nie jest na żywo. To jest fragment programu który realizują na żywo ale prezes idzie z taśmy #mediawatch https://t.co/nVaz7ZL8Xc (via twitter)
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Telewizja Pisowska każdego dnia staje się parodią siebie z dnia wcześniejszego #pis #bekazpis #tvpis #mediawatch
Co tam podpisanie umowy koalicyjnej, ważne że dla PisAP #JarKacz udzielił orędzia. A propagandyści na Nowogrodzkiej i Powstańców już piszą scenariusze na hejtowanie https://t.co/92mMDDZKMc (via twitter)
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@MrLee it's interesting to reflect on the fact that this occurs primarily bc it's so obviously beneficial to govt. The plausible deniability from media is actually given weight bc this practice is nothing new. There is a long provenance for strategic leaking to favourable outlets - William McMahon was renown as Billy the Leak for eg.
As media consumers it's reassuring to know that evidence for this collision is so damning. That's not to say justifiable or even remotely fair - it's a call to arms for more media plurality and accountability. That's the structural (and moral) issue for me. The so-called 4th estate is self serving generally and willing to be engaged and used by govt (with eyes wide open) for clicks & bucks.
Govt or even regulating platforms to pay for media outlet stories must not be ruled out. Governance & oversight beefed up and defo law reformed. A bill of rights might be nice too
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#Kowalczyk zgłasza dymisje, a #TVPInfo nie daje anteny na jego #oświadczenie
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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