"Changes" to our media

[Lilith7]

Having cut fundibng to journalism - especially independant journalists - there may not be much left of media if this continues.


https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/thedetail/543...sy-process

[Zurdo]

Sports commentators, they'll be safe surely ?

[Oh_hunnihunni]

I am in two minds about our media and the changes we are seeing. Technology has made the playing field very different and the audience - us - have chosen a range of alternative options to access the media offerings. And the old form did have some evils - the way it created star performers, hugely overpaid, contributing to other social imbalances as it did so was no gift to any community. We see the extreme results of that now in the US, but it has been a slow process and not limited to them. Look at our own screens, we had media stars here earning vast salaries, stars now doing their damnedest to be podcast heroes, and demonstrating those same egoes for their followers to worship. In the process they boost division, create hate groups, magnify inequality, and drum up social unrest.

It is a powerful tool, our media. And we have let the even more powerful get control of it, just as we have let them hoover up other social necessities. How we fix it without a huge revolution I have no idea...

Maybe we can't.

[Zurdo]

Yes, back when Judy Bailey earned twice as much as Helen Clark. Media boosting reporters to be far more than they really are. How we access news now is taking reporting back to it's roots - a reporter reporting the news or some event...it's all we need to know...and all they need to be paid for.

[Oh_hunnihunni]

And then there's THAT press conference. Which should - but probably won't - change the world.

Sadly.

[harm_less]

Yes, back when Judy Bailey earned twice as much as Helen Clark. Media boosting reporters to be far more than they really are. How we access news now is taking reporting back to it's roots - a reporter reporting the news or some event...it's all we need to know...and all they need to be paid for.

Back in the day when reporting was accurate and non-biased with knowledgeable media personal. Now it's reduced to infotainment and rapidly loses credibility as 'upticks' and surreal' are tossed around like chicken feed for the dumbed down masses.

[zqwerty]

Agreed, "infotainment" sums up the present offerings very well. I mostly don't watch tv anymore.

[Lilith7]

Indeed - reporting used to be when,where,why,who,how.

And I'm old enough to remember a time when any natural disasters or accidents made little or no mention of how much it would cost; just how many people were hurt & how badly.

[C_T_Russell]

Having cut fundibng to journalism - especially independant journalists - there may not be much left of media if this continues.


https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/thedetail/543...sy-process

They are not independent if they receive govt funding.

[Oh_hunnihunni]

What about elections? They are government funded from taxation... Independent? Or not?

[Lilith7]

What about elections? They are government funded from taxation... Independent? Or not?

Jeez...awkward question!