#rnz — Public Fediverse posts
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While I love that #National's ideological bias has crashed headfirst into reality, let's not forget that even the targets they've hit are bullshit:
Less people in emergency housing ≠ people housed, meeting climate targets ≠ doing enough about '#ClimateChange', less people taking up elective surgery ≠ a well run #HealthSystemJobseeker #s climbing, almost 80,000 over target | #RNZ
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics_election-2026/1298748/pm-christopher-luxon-s-targets-jobseeker-numbers-climbing-almost-80-000-over-target
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"Unemployment is at its highest level in more than a decade, but one expert offers a silver lining, saying that could actually be a sign of early economic growth."
#TheDetail, Feb 2026
That's some impressively wishful thinking right there!
This "one expert" isn't named, but a tag on this post says "Robert Walters". I'm guessing the one who runs one of many casual labour exploitation companies in Aotearoa;
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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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"I think Morning Report will definitely be in his sights, and I think he'll want to see better audience ratings from that program, because he'll be comparing it very much to Hosking, at NewstalkZB."
#MarkJennings, Co-Editor, Newsroom, 2026
This is a classic example of the Business Idiocy described in the article by Ed Zitron I've been quoting this morning.
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I'm still catching up on MediaWatch as I struggle back to some level of functioning. Today's listen is the June 28 edition, which covers lobbyist Matthew Hooten becoming editor of the capital's daily paper, and the departing editor becoming a lobbyist for Business NZ.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=61b69c55-de7f-490c-ac20-ff0a127534a0
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Here's a local example of the "Mirror World" Naomi Klein describes in #Doppelganger;
“I believe that public discourse is damaged when a large platform labels or characterises others negatively, particularly in ways that are untrue, with the purpose or effect of silencing or discrediting them."
#JimGrenon, Canadian billionaire, media mogul, 2026
Quoted by Stuff from Grenon's affidavit;
... and read out on #Mediawatch;
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=70b59078-20db-4fad-81cd-a4181277ce49
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Emile Donovan wants to stick with convention and call Pete Hegseth the "Secretary of Defence";
Why? Given the number of wars the US has started or escalated - at least 1 started during this administration too - I think Hegseth's choice of job title is curiously appropriate.
#war #defence #FairnessAndAccuracy #MediaWatch #RNZ #podcasts
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"... younger audiences do just live on these [corporate social media] platforms, and it's very difficult to get them to migrate off."
#AnnaHarcourt, former Head of Content, Re:News, 2026
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=df295b91-b6a9-4c18-b2a8-23391eac2b4a
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"There's a whole lot of AI I used that saved a whole lot of grunt work time in the production process and freed me up for creativity. But if you're dealing with an unreliable research tool, and you're checking up on it, you're not saving time, you're adding labour ..."
#DrLewisTennant, School of Communication Studies, AUT, 2026
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=7ecf3686-c69e-4786-be7c-1d36940b5fa8
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"Transmission via FM ... is a great way for broadcasters to reach an audience. All you need is 1 antenna to reach thousands of people, if not millions ... in a big city like Auckland, for example, and that costs the listeners absolutely nothing to receive. There's no data plan, there's no time lag.
#LeonWratt, Director of Content, MediaWorks, 2026
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=63971767-6465-4128-ae6c-8c1c525ed3ac
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"Removing content standards such as accuracy, balance and fairness, I think invites a significant political risk. You could end up with a rogue media operator with significant market power that chose to ignore them, with impunity. And I think that's politically dangerous, democratically it's indefensible."
#DrPeterThompson, 2026
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=bdb1a4a8-a91f-48a0-ac5e-f81f354a7021
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/594762/mediawatch-putting-down-the-watchdog
This is a very complicated issue, and I'm still figuring out what I think.
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"There are recurring themes, the most dominant of these is probably reining in the overuse of Parliamentary Urgency, including skipping or curtailing the Select Committees process.
Ideas to curb urgency include automatic expiry dates for laws passed without full process, governments needing to convince the Speaker that urgency is necessary, and select committees undertaking post-hoc reviews of laws that bypass them."
#PhilSmith, 2025
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Das war die Ankündigung der RNZ am letzten Freitag.
#Murx #Heidelberg #Altstadt #RNZ #Ankündigung #2025-09-19 @heidelberg
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Das war die Ankündigung der RNZ am letzten Freitag.
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"China has the largest navy in the world."
#JudithCollins, Minister of Defence 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=bff71632-e2e7-4fb6-9482-9155d53aeb5e
You'd hope a defence minister would know, but that's news to me. When did China's navy outstrip the size of the US Navy?
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Ist Euch schon mal der Leitspruch 'MENS AGITAT MOLEM', also 'GEIST BEWEGT DIE MATERIE' im Banner der Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung aufgefallen? Fast immer wenn ich mich in den Kommentaren der RNZ umschaue und an diesen Leitspruch denke, kann ich nur den Kopf schütteln.
#Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung #RheinNeckarZeitung #RNZ #Leitspruch #Kommentare #Kopfschütteln #Gedanken #2024-12-12 @heidelberg
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