#rnz — Public Fediverse posts

"... 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.

#GETS #MediaWatch #RNZ #podcasts

"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

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch/2026/rnz-chair-s-hot-seat-opportunity-s-backlash-political-tax-tussles

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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#NewstalkZB #MorningReport #MediaWatch #RNZ #podcasts

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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#MediaWatch #RNZ #podcasts

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;

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360987361/strongly-held-personal-values-why-billionaire-jim-grenon-supported-defamation-case

... and read out on #Mediawatch;

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=70b59078-20db-4fad-81cd-a4181277ce49

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#RNZ #podcasts

Emile Donovan wants to stick with convention and call Pete Hegseth the "Secretary of Defence";

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch/2026/midweek-anti-nuke-angst-gagging-rich-list-resistance-youth-news-fails

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

"... 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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#MediaWatch #RNZ #podcasts

"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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#MOLE #AI #MediaWatch #RNZ #podcasts

"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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#radio #FM #MediaWatch #RNZ #podcasts

"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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#BSA #MediaWatch #RNZ #podcasts

Why on earth is rnz.co.nz - a website run by 100% publicly-funded RNZ - still quietly serving scripts from third-party domains?

If the software they're running is Free Code they can serve it from their own domain. If it's not, depending on it is a ruinous compromise, in some case with known DataFarms, owned by technofacsists who are cozying up to the antidemocratic regime currently occupying the White House.

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#RNZ #PublicMedia #DataFarms

[#DavidSeymour getting fired for poisoning a customer:]
"My boss is a 'frequent flyer' with HR, complaining about quite a range of my behaviours, as they have the right to do, but I think people need that context."

Parents horrified children ate mouldy mince in government-funded #SchoolLunches
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/580553/parents-horrified-children-ate-mouldy-mince-in-government-funded-school-lunches
#RNZ #NactionalFirst #nzpol

Minister, OT hail boot camp success despite majority reoffending

<<Seven of the 10 young men involved in the controversial military-style academy (MSA) boot camp pilot reoffended, according to Oranga Tamariki.>>

So yes they are working.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/569424/minister-ot-hail-boot-camp-success-despite-majority-reoffending

#RNZ #NZPol #BootCamps

@rnzbot_political

In response to #RNZ publishing random reckons I thought this particular reckon deserved a complimentary counter reckon.

Here’s my reckon.

#NZPol PM Luxon is undeniably incompetent but if he is proven to be foolishly arrogant enough to ignore 90+% of the NZ public and pursue this unconstitutional and anti democratic #AtlasNetwork backdoor assault on NZ democracy and sovereignty then he and the National Party will suffer a backlash so severe he will be wishing he was still working as a simple deodorant salesman.

Unlike Luxon, imo, Winston Peters is neither naive or silly enough not to take advantage of this opportunity to poach a large proportional slice of the National and Act voter base and potentially force a snap election.

In conclusion, having watched much of the 30 hours of oral submissions on the #RSB I am honestly surprised by just how little media attention the devastating demolition of Act and in particular #DavidSeymour the Finance and Expenditure Committe has received.

Perhaps the #NZInitiative aka Atlas Network have threatened media with local advertising boycotts? After all the Act Party and its supporters did threaten and dox an active opponent to this legislation, lawyer Tania Waikato, to the extent she required a security escort when attending NZ Parliament to make her oral submission. These are not nice people, they are white collar criminals who operate like the mob.

Meanwhile NZ media suffers a growing distrust in its reporting…. Wonder why?

RNZ: Zwangssterilisationen in Heidelberg – Vergessene Opfer des Nationalsozialismus

Es ist ein noch unerforschtes Thema der Stadtgeschichte: Erbgesundheitsgerichte verfügten über das Schicksal von Menschen.

Heidelberg. Am Morgen des 15. Februar 1934 betraten Emilie und ihre Mutter das städtische Amtsgericht in der Seminarstraße in der Altstadt. Dort befand sich das Erbgesundheitsgericht, vor dem Emilie auf Antrag des Bezirksarztes erscheinen musste. Der Arzt vertrat die Auffassung, dass die junge Frau wegen ihrer Taubheit als "erbkrank" gelte. Grundlage war das von den Nationalsozialisten eingeführte "Gesetz zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses". In diesen Fällen sah der NS-Staat die Sterilisation der betreffenden Person vor... (weiter) ℹ️

Wirklich schade das die Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung solche Artikel hinter einer Paywall versteckt!

#Hintergrund #Nationalsozialismus #Heidelberg #Opfer #Zwangssterilisationen #Menschen #Nazis #KeinVergessen #RNZ #2025-03-05

I'm in two minds about public media outlets like RNZ publishing the video they produce on YouRube;

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp4OXwfZE1SaCQ4jRAuaoXQ

It makes sense for publicly-funded media to publish anywhere that members of the public might be, especially where we don't have to pay. In fact, any media funded 100% with public money ought to be under a CreativeCommons BY-SA license, or even placed in the public domain. So *anyone* can publish it, anywhere they like.

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#PublicMedia #WebVideo #RNZ #DataFarms

Brandgefahr bei Autos

Ja ja immer diese Verbrennerautos...

rnz.de/region/regionalticker/p…

#Autos #Verbrennerautos #Feuer #Gefahr #RNZ #2024-09-01 @RNZonline

Everyday there's a headline that says Health is underfunded & ##NactionalFirst's answer is "If no one does the work no one can spend the money"

#RNZ: More cuts to come: Health NZ asking for more voluntary #redundancies https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/526389/more-cuts-to-come-health-nz-asking-for-more-voluntary-redundancies
#nzpol

Some intriguing coverage of the issues around newsrooms using #MOLE like ChatGPT;
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018951651/mediawatch-the-good-and-bad-of-ai-in-news-advert-aggravation

One danger that's not discussed is core news media workflows coming to depend on yet another set of remote services offered by DataFarming corporations.

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#RNZ #Mediawatch #AI #DataFarms

"We do not want taxpayers subsidising the work we produce..."

#SineadBoucher
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018908261/mediawatch-for-24-september-2023

... they want a handful of transnational corporate DataFarmers to subsidise it instead. Through government-imposed mandates to pay for commercial license on uses like linking and quoting, which don't violate copyright (or they could take legal action on those grounds).

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#podcasts #RNZ #MediaWatch #NewsMedia #Stuff #DataFarms