Mediawatch (RNZ)
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Mediawatch for 12 May 2013
The media feeding frenzy on Aaron Gilmore trumps important issues; a veteran's view of print media prospects; media freedom in the age of the internet and social media; a startling story from the sporting sidelines.
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Mediawatch for 5 May 2013
A recent survey of media freedom around the world ranked New Zealand as one of the top 10 nations. So Mediawatch asks: Do we need to fret about press freedom here at all? We also look at local newspapers coming back into local ownership in the South Island; why the media were staking out dairies this week; and are text votes on TV shows good value for money?
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Mediawatch for 28 April 2013
Digital TV Switchover in the South Island - and the prospects for local broadcasters; lots of heat about racism - but little light, and; a sense of humour failure over satire.
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Mediawatch Extra for April 2013
The Mediawatch team runs through listeners' queries and comments and updates recent stories from the programme. This month: politicians and public servants failing to front up; BBC news drops off TV One; TV3's 'The Vote'; weather service rivalry; the proposed one-stop regulation shop; Nicky Hager on the response to media lifting the lid on secrecy; trying to be nice; getting adjectives right; the final word on marmite.
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Mediawatch for 21 April 2013
A talkback host and prospective politician who tried to turn the tables on a reporter; a new online initiative aiming to hook creative kids; Australians on the downside of non-stop coverage of politics.
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Mediawatch for 14 April 2013
A confusing front-page story about 'offender-friendly justice'; confusing front-page ads; a global scoop on international tax havens - and Nicky Hager on the pros and cons of leaks; an underwhelming undercover investigation into modelling.
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Mediawatch for 7 April 2013
Brainfades and knuckleheads - the PM and media trade barbs; coverage of Iraq 10 years on - and Afghanistan; a global news service reporting news under the western world's radar; the Broadcasting Minister's rough ride on the radio; a startling slot on a new youth TV show.
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Mediawatch for 31 March 2013
Why are the media here welcoming a one-stop shop to hold them all accountable, while overseas attempts to impose beefed-up watchdogs have caused a huge fuss? Mediawatch also look at how the media marked 10 years since the start of war in Iraq, why BBC TV news is vanishing for free-to-air viewers, and some recent stories which mixed fact and fiction. Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.
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Mediawatch for 24 March 2013
Mediawatch talks to a boss from the BBC about a major shake-up of its international news. Could cashing in on its global appeal put its reputation at risk? Mediawatch also looks at how pre-emptive public relations are taking effect in our media, a PR blunder pushing a 'sick' new idea, and how the media went over the top overseas over the prospect of beefed-up media watchdogs.
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Mediawatch for 17 March 2013
Startling reports of deaths in the news - and the actual risks we face; a new business turns food freebies into free publicity; yet more marmite media madness; investigative reporting in the US - and some pointers for NZ; a mysterious new TV sports channel.
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Mediawatch for 10 March 2013
Is Maori TV trying to monopolise major events?; TV3's new current afffairs show - and Anna Guy's starring role; a fresh push for more local programmes for children.
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Mediawatch for 3 March 2013
Being fast - but wrong; The Hobbit hits the headlines again; reform of the Official Information Act; reporting the victim of a viral video; why a deadly conflict nearby is scarcely mentioned in our media.
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Mediawatch for 24 February 2013
Slavery at sea - but not in the news; recycled rancour on the 'plastic princess';upheaval at a big paper puplisher; strange comments on our ethnic relations; why are broadcasters bothered about Twitter and Facebook.
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Mediawatch for 17 February 2013
One MP's controversial comments - outrageous outburst or journalists' joke?; broadcasters band together to create a brand new watchdog; plug pulled on TV awards and are startling stories about wild weather misleading us?
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Mediawatch Extra for February 2013
The Mediawatch team runs through listeners' queries and comments and updates recent stories from the programme. There are responses to the coverage of the death of Sir Paul Holmes; reaction to reports of Gareth Morgan's cat campaign; the rocky start for Seven Sharp; anger over Igloo; Aussie papers outsourced here; Dick Smith's latest patriotic provocation; a green light for 'Beast of Blenheim', time to reclaim the Nerd?
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Mediawatch for 10 February 2013
Blunt assessments of Seven Sharp; Maori TV's new news boss; a voicemail gone viral makes national news; how PR people misread the Novopay nightmare; can new ways of backing US journalism work here?
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Mediawatch for 3 February 2013
The media's long goodbye to Sir Paul Holmes and the thoughts of a former colleague; Gareth Morgan on copping flak from cat lovers and football fans - and how he gets issues into the media and; knock-backs for news in Auckland.
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Mediawatch for 27 January 2013
Mediawatch asks why critics are carping about a new TV news programme before it has even screened, and looks at some recent news-making interviews: One which took its subject by surprise because he didn't know it was happening, one which actually never happened at all, and Oprah Winfrey's exclusive with back-pedalling cyclist Lance Armstrong.
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Mediawatch for 23 December 2012
Mediawatch looks back at the media in 2012: the year an All Black tackled 'breastfeeding Nazis', Kim Dotcom rocked the government's cabbage boat, and fatty fast food, salty spreads, old biscuits and sugary musicals all took turns to hijack the headlines and much more.
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Mediawatch for 16 December 2012
The chief of the outfit spending our money on broadcasting on how it sets its priorities in tight times; a rash of recent questions on the worth of modern medicines, and; local publications take a punt on putting up paywalls.
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Mediawatch for 9 December 2012
A prank with tragic consequences; TV current affairs thin out while public-funded talent shows prosper; regional TV's struggle - and a new public service channel only on pay TV, and; an embattled MP's rough ride in the media.
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Mediawatch for 2 December 2012
Hobbit hoopla and the anguished analysis of foreign media reports, a hack charged over hacking responds to the UK's epic Leveson report, the risk of ruined reputations world where gossip goes global in a flash, a claim of bias boomerangs on it source.
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Mediawatch for 25 November 2012
Rumblings in the news ahead of the Hobbit's big day; making a media meal of Labour's leadership; community broadcasters covering post-quake Canterbury on a shoestring; yet more marketing that uses sex to sell - with help from the media.
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Mediawatch for 25 November 2012
Rumblings in the news ahead of The Hobbit's big day; making a media meal of Labour's leadership; community broadcasters covering post-quake Christchurch on a shoestring; yet more marketing that uses sex to sell - with help from the media.
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Mediawatch for 18 November 2012
The BBC's boss carries the can for failures of its journalism - and Radio New Zealand's boss on where the buck stops here; an American scholar and broadcaster on media as a force for bad and good; radio under the radar - volunteer broadcasters filling big gaps on access radio in Otago.
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Mediawatch Extra November 2012
The Mediawatch team runs through listeners' queries and comments and updates recent stories from the programme. This month: Blogging and busking; the blogger who's helming Truth; figures for the film industry challenged; the PM's off-colour off-the-cuff gags; criticisms of coverage of the arts; are our media still sexist?
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Mediawatch for 11 November 2012
Off-the-cuff comments put the PM in the spotlight; coverage of the death of leading lawyer Greg King - and the front page focus on other lawyers; public radio under the radar on the nation's Access stations.
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Mediawatch for 4 November 2012
Strange connections with 'Superstorm Sandy'; rosy reports of the economic impact of film and television; an expert in the arts says the media fail to cover them properly and; the nation's most notorious blogger takes charge of a national newspaper.
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Mediawatch 28 Oct 2012
A tragic killing which kick-started a campaign to change the law; how an Australian ad campaign went wrong - and how advertisers here now have to be on their guard; freelance journalists can get great stories - but not great money; how hard did the media work on Labour Day?
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Mediawatch for 21 October 2012
A giant leap for marketing; extrordinary exposure for a major musical; New Zealand gets noticed in Frankfurt; the UK's front pages are startlingly sexist - is the story the same on ours?
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Mediawatch for 14 October 2012
For decades experts have studied the effects of crime, conflict and catastrophe on victims - and also on soldiers, paramedics and police officers. But not on so for those also often on the scene at disturbing events - journalists. Mediawatch reports from the first ever gathering devoted to the impact of trauma on New Zealand's journalists.
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Mediawatch for 7 October 2012
Broadcasters blurring the boundary between advertising and journalism; how our universities and polytechnics are engaging the media today - and could contribute more in the future.
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Mediawatch for 30 September 2012
This week the Mediawatch team looks at: the controversial publication of National Standards stats; an overseas investigation unreported here; TVNZ cuts another current affairs show; Paul Henry hassled by critics and; a paper hits a bum note.
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Mediawatch for 23 September 2012
A right royal row over private pictures; shots fired over the blurred boundary between old and new media; The ODT's editor on resisting reinvention; which paper had its eagle eye on the Russia's Tsar?
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Mediawatch Extra September 2012
The Mediawatch team runs through listeners' queries and comments and updates recent stories from the programme - with guest Alison McCullough. This month: The Herald's new format; flaky columns; Christchurch two years on; one small mistake by a man; the La Leche League hits back; chickens on the cover; bloggers vs. the mainstream; a shoutout for Stockholm; who first warned the Tsar?
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Mediawatch for 16 September 2012
The boss of the nation's biggest daily paper on its tabloid transition; a top lawyer calls for a rethink of rules allowing cameras into our courts; how a notorious nickname stuck to a controversial criminal; a sudden surge of media interest in chickens.
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Mediawatch for 9 September 2012
Mediawatch talks to some overseas experts about the ways 'new media' are now colliding with the old - TV, radio and newspapers - in the digital age. Fast-growing online outlets now deliver news quickly, cheaply and directly to people, wherever they are. But by speeding up the news, are they also undermining it? And should the likes of Google contribute more to the creation of the content that they make so freely available online? Also: some startling mistakes made in recent reports of the...
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Mediawatch for 2 September 2012
An outsider's view of the media response to disaster and recovery in Canterbury and Pike River; one year on from the death of the UK's top-selling tabloid, is the world better off without The News of the World?
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Mediawatch for 26 August 2012
A TV veteran tells Mediawatch about four decades in investigative journalism, and why he now fears for the future of it here. Mediawatch also looks at how a minister's move to bypass the media backfired, some rough numbers for our newspapers, and the revival of a long tradition of telling Russia's rulers where to get off.
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Mediawatch for 19 August 2012
The steroid scandal that turned silver into gold at the Olympics; a new proposal to persuade the public to pay for journalism - and the view of a veteran - and; the Aussie entrepreneur spending a small fortune fighting Rupert Murdoch's papers.
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Mediawatch for 12 August 2012
The media burst the bubble after Olympic setbacks; who is broadcasting what - and from where?; another ignored embargo; will the public pay for new journalism in New Zealand?
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Mediawatch Extra for August 2012
The Mediawatch team runs through listeners' queries and comments, and updates recent stories from the programme. This month: the Scott Guy trial coverage and the 'court of public opinion'; the end of public service TV and the meaning of 'free to air'; international interest in marmite; publishing personal pictures without prior permission; Rio+20 ignored; coincidental commentary or sponsor's plug?; what's a whistleblower?; Kim Dotcom's public image.
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Mediawatch for 5 August 2012
Mediawatch looks at who was calling the shots in the coverage of the plan the remake the centre of Christchurch - and why one outlet's under fire for failing to play by the rules; what happened when the PM turned DJ on the radio again; and how one man's big bucks and small sums from citizens are paying for new journalism in Australia.
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Mediawatch for 29 July 2012
Mediawatch looks at new ways of paying for quality journalism overseas, and proposals to revamp a key tool for journalists here - the Official Informational Act. Also this week: why we'll be getting reduced rations of current affairs on prime time TV soon, and why is reporting the Olympic Games still mostly a man's game?
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Mediawatch for 22 July 2012
The coverage of Owen Glenn's big-money plans to change New Zealand; the survival struggle of the US news media; why TV shows you paid for are nowhere to be found; cultural friction with the Germans; sports stars slating the media; a truly bewildering rugby report.
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Mediawatch for 15 July 2012
The focus on a leading lawyer in the Scott Guy trial - and could the coverage of it prompt a push-back against reporting from courts in the furture?; The ACC saga: a triumph for investigative journalism - or a sign of its weakness?
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Mediawatch for 8 July 2012
The media makes a drama of Scott Guy's murder; the Minister of Broadcasting on the government's policy and what we get for the millions spent on broadcasting; newspaper columnists caught out by the news.
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Mediawatch for 1 July 2012
The end of TVNZ7 and what's left for free-to-air viewers; a New Zealand newspaper editor heads for turbulence in Australia - as a former Kiwi colleague walks away from it and Kim Dotcom turns around his public image.
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Mediawatch for 24 June 2012
A big shake-up of the Australian company that owns many of our papers; a scary story that worried women sick; did taxpayers get their money's worth from controversial TV show The GC? and; yet another phony fast food fad in the news.
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Mediawatch for 17 June 2012
Emotional coverage of a high-profile trial; Australian newspapers exporting journalists' jobs here; a redneck radio response to football failure; and confusing commentary from last weekend's test match.
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Mediawatch for 10 June 2012
The backlash after the coverage of the Queen's diamond jubilee; a journalist taking transparency to great lengths; how the bad boy of broadcasting is going down in Australia; a fast-food company spoonfeeds the media - and not for the first time.
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Mediawatch Extra for June 2012
The Mediawatch team runs through listeners' queries and comments - and updates recent stories from Mediawatch. This month: geographical goofs; journalists' conflicts of interest; cash for tweets; opinionated reporting of politics; paying for public TV; not-so-free Freeview; SBS vanishes; freelance rates fall through the floor; Maori journalists recoil from The GC; the hidden hassles of turning titles into tabloids.
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Mediawatch for 3 June 2012
Portraying parents' grief after tragedy in Doha; the Telecommunications Commissioner talks about key issues looming for the media-and his own job; the media's odd attitude to women and beer.
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Mediawatch for 27 May 2012
The campaign for public television gets party political; anguish over racial comments by an unusual political donor; more revelations about the controversial taxpayer-funded TV show 'The GC'; how New Zealand's oldest radio host's been foiled by a pair of pensioners in northern England.
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Mediawatch for 20 May 2012
A media frenzy about a four year-old; the PM pans the press; The Herald’s editor on what will change as the paper prepares to go tabloid; is the ‘Save TVNZ7’ campaign flogging a dead horse?
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Mediawatch for 13 May 2012
TV1+1 to replace TVNZ7; the burgeoning business of online endorsements; a bad geography apology; the push to make cyberspace more civil; a new university-sponsored news show - a model for more intelligent telly or just a new marketing method?
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Mediawatch for 6 May 2012
Memorable media moments featuring John Banks; anger over more taxpayer-funded reality television; TV3's Duncan Garner on provocative political journalism; a bid by broadcasters to head off more state regulation of the media; armed Kiwis on the high seas makes great TV- but not great journalism.
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Mediawatch for 29 April 2012
Influence peddling: are journalists on the agenda of the lobbyists who persuade politicians?; how think tanks are teaming up to increase their impact; a big-name broadcaster confronts conflict-of-interest claims.
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Mediawatch for 22 April 2012
Critics cry foul over ultra-fast broadband - and claim consumers could lose out; loose reporting of a sensitive story in the US; more on compromised coverage of the controversial convention centre deal.
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Mediawatch for 15 April 2012
Will ultra-fast broadband mean broader choice for TV viewers? claims Sky could corner the online market for pay TV; controversial comments about women at work revisited; TVNZ names a new chief and the BBC seeks a new boss.
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Mediawatch for 8 April 2012
A new subscription service offering TV, movies - and competition?; the newsman gambling with his reputation; a play questioning media manipulation in the digital age; good news buried by bad news about a man who made it possible and; are today's teens really more conservative?
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Mediawatch Extra for April 2012
The Mediawatch team runs through listeners' queries and comments - and updates recent stories from the programme. This month: reaction to revelations about Sky City's media clients; anguish over public subsidy for commercial TV shows while public TV dies; 'Marmageddon' and other medi-driven food frenzies and; yet more spurious Nazi comparisons.
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Mediawatch for 1 April 2012
Commercial deals for media personalities - the compromises and conflicts of interest they can create; Finland's fury over a minister's mischief.
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Mediawatch for 25 March 2012
The writing on the wall for evening papers; blogging broadcasters - and broadcasting bloggers; a controversial new law; Marmageddon: the end of the world - or just the media gone mad?
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Mediawatch for 18 March 2012
Clouded coverage of the Ports of Auckland dispute; are we missing old-fashioned industrial reporters?; one man's account of unwanted media attention at a traumatic time; the blurry line between advertising and editorial.
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Mediawatch for 11 March 2012
Non-commercial public TV's disappearing - but the public's still paying for entertainment shows on commercial channels; a bad broadcasting stat that got a great run; reports that a TVNZ's show not getting a Fair Go; the looming deadline for input on a new regime to regulate the media
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Mediawatch for 4 March 2012
Emotional coverage of a law and order campaign; the Fiji regime's hired help; anguish over Wellington's 'spy car'; The Muppets trump welfare reform on TV; the backlash from taking the mickey out of Te Kuiti; rugby's literally got problems.
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Mediawatch Extra February 2012
The Mediawatch team runs through listeners' queries and comments - and updates recent stories from Mediawatch for the first time in 2012. This month: the PM's front-page reflections on Christchurch; the "censorship" scandal which sparked a media breastfeeding frenzy; contempt for our coverage of Occupy; reaction to "Rhinoceros" buying into Fairfax; corporate-style media management of university academics; TV One puts natural history in prime time; what can be called a "holocaust"? ; return...
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Mediawatch for 26 February 2012
The challenge for media in Christchurch - reporting the recovery while rebuilding themselves; how the quake has changed journalists jobs - and their lives; reporting the anniversary from Japan; reborn Beirut bites back.
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Mediawatch for 19 February 2012
Marking the upcoming earthquake anniversary in Christchurch; right of reply on The Panel; newspaper stories with overhyped headlines; a controversial contest backfies on radio - but not really.
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Mediawatch for 12 February 2012
All Black in a media breastfeeding frenzy; who shapes media debate on economic issues?; two political broadcasting rows revived; a misreported comment goes global; Waitangi Day expat antics overblown.
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Mediawatch for 5 February 2012
Has Occupy had a fair go in our media - or the coverage it deserved?; an Aussie mining magnate turned media mogul with a big stake in our papers; an unfairly-outed bouncer; alarming reports of a potential crisis at breakfast.
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Mediawatch for 29 January 2012
Death, danger, disaster and violence dominate summer news; the fallout from a controversial documentary; the teapot tape leak; Blanket Man in the media.
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Mediawatch Extra December 2012
The Mediawatch team runs through listeners' queries and comments - and updates recent stories from Mediawatch one last time in 2011. This month: reaction to proposals for one media regulator to regulate them all; TVNZ's new pay-TV partnership with Sky; good and bad press during the election campaign; a curmudgeonly columnist's churnalism; The Herald goes crime-crazy; Air NZ plays the news media like a puppet on a string
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Mediawatch for 18 December 2011
Controversial proposals to keep the media honest in the future; Mediawatch looks back at the good, bad and the ugly in the media in 2011.
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Mediawatch for 11 December 2011
TVNZ in business with Sky, and what it means for viewers; major freedom surveys back NZ - but not other Pacific countries; and a sensitive interview bungled.
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Mediawatch for 4 December 2011
Political punch-ups, why we could get more details of court cases in the media than juries hear in courtrooms and a international TV star who doesn't watch TV.
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Mediawatch for 27 November 2011 - Election Special
The Mediawatch team looks at the coverage of election night on radio, on TV and online; how the campaign unfolded in the media; how NZ First returned from the media wilderness; and the likely long-term impact of that 'teapot tape'.
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Mediawatch for 20 November 2011
Has the public interest been served in the teapot tape affair?; and an Australian journalist on reporting the Pike River disaster.
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Mediawatch for 13 November 2011
What the political parties contesting the election have in mind for the media; how one woman became the face of poverty.
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Mediawatch
What the political parties contesting the election have in mind for the media; how one woman became the face of poverty.
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Mediawatch Extra November 2011
The Mediawatch team runs through the best of listeners' queries and comments and updates recent stories and issues on Mediawatch - with guest Toby Manhire. This month: one eyed-rugby coverage; what we missed while the Cup was on; exclusions from election campaign coverage; dropping Bomber - and bomber Barbie
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Mediawatch for 6 November 2011
Making sense of the sudden surge of election campaign coverage; Australian inquiries which could have an impact here; the futile hunt for baby seven billion.
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Mediawatch for 30 October 2011
Was the wall-to-wall RWC coverage over the top? And will it change the way sport is covered in future?; some of the mistakes made in the media during the rugby; the election campaign kick-off; do they think we're all on drugs?
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Mediawatch for 23 October 2011
The media mauling of Wallaby Quade Cooper; what visiting journalists made of our media during the RWC - and the picture of NZ painted overseas; how tabloids turned a morbid murder mystery into a cannibal killing.
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Mediawatch for 16 October 2011
The response to disaster in the Bay of Plenty; online anguish over dropped Bomber and how Australia has less rugby, but more satire on screen.
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Mediawatch for 9 October 2011
The groin strain that gutted a nation; Parliament punishes the Herald; and the fallout from the PM playing DJ.
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Mediawatch Extra October 2011
The Mediawatch team runs through the best of listeners' queries and comments, and updates recent stories and issues on Mediawatch. This month: A right royal celebrity frenzy; tabloid tendencies on the rise; scientific shortcomings in the modern media; the reaction to books by Hager and Holmes; Coro Street backlash; rugby wars update.
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Mediawatch for 2 October 2011
The PM as DJ; the focus on political personalities over policies; the ownership of NZ media and mocking McCaw on the day of a milestone.
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Mediawatch for 25 September 2011
Two rugby stars squirm under the spotlight - while two others enjoy the exposure; a kiwi at the cutting edge of celebrity journalism - and a broadcaster from abroad who's shunned the showbiz life.
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Mediawatch for 18 September 2011
"Coverage of the chaos on RWC opening night, Sir Paul Callaghan speaks on the media, the search for the 'Minister of Bad Manners', Cold War cliches nfor Russia vs US".
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Mediawatch for 11 September 2011
RWC gets going; a New Zealand 'News of the World' journalist on the phone-hacking scandal; the response to claims the military spun our media; the Springbok Tour re-imagined and Erebus revisited.
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Mediawatch for 4 September 2011
Signs of earthquake fatigue; the end of the NZPA - and what's planned to fill the void; an ironic political mix-up and putting words in Hone Harawira's mouth
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Mediawatch Extra August 2011
The Mediawatch team runs through queries and comments from listeners and updates recent Mediawatch stories. In this edition: The proposal to televise RNZ National; reaction to the controversial NZSO TV doco; a Kiwi eyewitness in Oslo speaks out; the shock horror Herald; Telecom's fruitless abstinence ads; the price of milk and All Black jerseys.
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Mediawatch for 28 August 2011
Sex and celebrity propel two stories to the front page; a journalist committed to covering some risky regions; RWC media ructions; could your TV really be killing you?
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Mediawatch for 21 August 2011
This week the Mediawatch team looks at: a proposal for public TV - using Radio New Zealand with pictures; the collapse of an odd ad campaign to abstain for the All Blacks; the week's extreme weather - severe in the south, novel in the north.
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Mediawatch for 14 August 2011
The price of milk - and All Black jerseys; TV3's John Campbell on campaigning journalism and confronting interviewees; former Financial Times editor Sir Richard Lambert on the global market mess and phone hacking; the papers' tabloid take on a truly gruesome accident.
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Mediawatch for 7 August 2011
Norway's recent atrocity - and how one New Zealand witness was mercilessly mocked, low-brow humour in a documentary about high art, a Fairfax fault stops the presses and do mavericks still have a place in modern newsrooms?
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Mediawatch for 31 July 2011
Mediawatch this week looks at: TVNZ's news boss on ethical questions and the future for news after the charter; a fishy mystery and; do political polls really reflect public opinion?
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Mediawatch for 24 July 2011
Mediawatch this weekend looks at a newspaper scoop which raised big questions about Israeli espionage - and how the great and good of the press in Britain are being called to account by the inquiries into phone hacking. Mediawatch also talks to a man who turned the tables on Britain's tabloids - and a veteran photographer who has captured the horror of war down the years and suffered for it.
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Mediawatch for 17 July 2011
The fallout from the phone hacking scandal in the UK. Editors arrested, executives ejected, journalists jailed - and calls for curbs on the press. Will events over there have an impact here? Also: a less-than-full story about Sir Ed's legacy.
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Mediawatch for 10 July 2011
Mediawatch looks at the naming and shaming of the man the media dubbed 'the Jetstar urinator'; and how one politician got the blame for the lack of a crackdown on synthetic cannabis. Also on the programme, the man behind the alternative TV channel Stratos tells us it can fill the void of public service television, but how? And are those clever comedians on TV as off-the-cuff as they appear to be?
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Mediawatch for 3 July 2011
Promoting the comeback of a controversial broadcaster; where to find public service-style programmes on free TV; how British public telly is served up on pay TV; can you trust media reports of a survey on trustworthiness?
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Mediawatch Extra for June 2011
The Mediawatch team discusses the best of listeners' queries and comments, and updates recent stories and issues on Mediawatch. This month: reaction to Christchurch's latest quakes; those controversial comments about working women; anguish over interrupting interviewers; the Dom Post's farming foul-up; is there a "snobbery of death" in the reporting of youth tragedies?
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Mediawatch for 26 June 2011
The future for public television in New Zealand; the reporting of one man's extraordinary comments about women at work.
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Mediawatch for 19 June 2011
The media response to Canterbury's latest quakes; threats of a World Cup media boycott; renowned war photographer Tim Page on the state of the art today; a plan to step up scrutiny of statistics in the media; an online TV forum that's going international.
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Mediawatch for 12 June 2011
Did Darren Hughes get fair treatment in the media?; former Australian finance minister Lindsay Tanner on the news media's sideshow syndrome; the fallout from Murray Deaker's 'N-bomb'.
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Mediawatch for 5 June 2011
How real is reality TV when politicians are stars?; the contrasting coverage of two women whose online relationships went badly wrong; a surprising suggestion from government and; making a mountain out of a molehill on Wellywood.
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Mediawatch for 29 May 2011
How a famous footballer's private life went public in spite of a so-called 'super-injuction'; a startling suicide story; the telethon on the TV news; a career-ending newspaper puzzle prank.
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Mediawatch Extra for May 2011
The Mediawatch team runs through the best of listeners' queries and comments, and updates recent stories and issues on Mediawatch. This month: over-egging Hone Harawira's comments; the burger marketing that made mincemeat of the media; reaction to the interview with RNZ's new chair; interview technique; journalists associating online; an investigation lost at sea.
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Mediawatch for 22 May 2011
Farmers' tax targeted in run-up to belt-tightening budget; Samoa's government vs TV3; big changes in newspaper production; 15 years of fighting for the rights of advertisers; news media spoilers on popular TV.
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Mediawatch for 15 May 2011
Fatty fast food fad sparks a media feeding frenzy; RNZ's cost-conscious Maori news overhaul; update on journalist Jon Stephenson; more mathematical media mess-ups.
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Mediawatch for 8 May 2011
Over the top on Osama Bin Laden, more on Metro's Afghanistan article; a bold proposal fpr RNZ Concert; CTV returns and broadcasting students step up in post-quake Christchurch.
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Mediawatch for 1 May 2011
Royal wedding fever strikes the media; Metro's editor on a newsmaking story about Afghanistan, not Auckland; a new group for former and current journalists.
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Mediawatch for 24 April 2011
RNZ's new chair Richard Griffin on his vision for the broadcaster - and media claims his appointment is political; extraordinary efforts to restore the media in Christchurch; and unexpected reaction to photographers' deaths in Libya.
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Mediawatch for 17 April 2011
Pushing the boundaries in the Scott Guy case; more media closures confirmed; Palmy-bashing fightback; cranky columns and junket journalism.
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Mediawatch Extra April 2011
The Mediawatch team runs through the best of listeners' queries and comments on stories and issues in Mediawatch recently. This month: The demise of our oldest national news organisation - the NZPA; the downfall of Darren Hughes; Lotto fever; media trust surveyed; school bullying in the spotlight.
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Mediawatch for 10 April 2011
The country's biggest publisher pulls the plug on NZ's oldest national news organisation; Lotto fever hits the media - same old story.
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Mediawatch for 3 April 2011
Reporting the downfall of Darren Hughes - and the political fallout; school bullies hit the headlines; and the BBC's Stephen Sackur on coverage of ongoing upheavals in the Arab world.
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Mediawatch for March 27 2011
More responses to coverage of the catastrophe in Japan; how broadcasters got a break to pay a big bill; reporters' rugby suggestions which didn't deliver dividends; and how the 'Moon Man' maintained his mana with many - even after a media mauling
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Mediawatch for 20 March 2011
The Mediawatch team looks at the media's coverage of the threefold disaster in Japan and examines the progress of al Jazeera into mainstream acceptance while questioning its effectiveness into domestic coverage of civil unrest.
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Mediawatch for 13 March 2011
Grassroots efforts to get news-you-can-use to people in Christchurch's stricken suburbs; TVNZ 6 is gone, TVNZ 7's in doubt - but more channels for pay TV. Is the writing on the wall for public service TV at TVNZ?
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Mediawatch Extra - The Christchurch Quake
The Mediawatch team discusses listeners' questions and comments on the media coverage of the quake: the overuse of images; the lack of news-you-can-use; the Ken Ring vs Campbell controversy; CTV's legacy.
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Mediawatch for 6 March 2011
The fierce reaction to a rebuttal of controversial quake claims, Australian coverage prompts a call for change, a rash rehashing of the scary news and how Lyttleton's local radio has coped.
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Mediawatch for 27 February 2011
This weekend Mediawatch looks at how the media coped with the quake in Christchurch - and the extraordinary efforts many people made to get the news out this week. Hear from the reporters, writers and editors who put the pictures on our screens, the words on the pages - and had to find the words to describe Christchurch's catastrophe.
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Mediawatch for 20 February 2011
A ministry embarrassed by a bad beneficiary - and a pumpkin; theology makes the news; what's the future of radio - and does it even exist any more?
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Mediawatch for 13 February 2011
Koha controversy at Waitangi; alarming reports about our forests; radio's digital future;
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Mediawatch for 6 February 2011
Bowled over by a monster cyclone; caught in Cairo's chaos; what's new on a new TV channel; can journalism survive the internet?
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Mediawatch for 30 January 2011
Suspicion and speculation in a tragic tale in the news; the online revolution and its impact on journalists and; advertisers spoonfeeding the media.
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Mediawatch for 19 December 2010
A look back at the media in 2010 and some of the dubious achievements; have the media lost interest in climate change?
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Mediawatch for 12 December 2010
The current state of current affairs on TV, the future of investigative journalism, and why do some say it's no longer just a job for journalists.
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Mediawatch for 5 December 2010
TV3 news boss Mark Jennings on the coverage of the Pike River coalmine disaster; how a troubled youth ended up in the TV spotlight; publishing under pressure in Nepal; the US response to the latest Wikileaks revelations.
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Mediawatch for 28 November 2010
The efforts the media made during the Pike River coalmine crisis - and claims that some journalists in Greymouth gave their craft a bad name.
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Mediawatch for 21 November 2010
The prospect of a royal wedding moves the media, angst over the Search and Surveillance Bill, is the internet too Wild West and would a sheriff be a good thing?
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Mediawatch for 14 November 2010
Parents hit back at columnists and critics; broadcasting policy up in the air; blending adverts and journalism.
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Mediawatch Extra for November 2010
The online-only edition of Mediawatch, taking in queries and comments from listeners and updating recent stories from Mediawatch. This month - channeling JRR Tolkien; the ethics of secret recording; local election angst; the portrayal of the elderly; a sanction for cheeky DJs; and killing crayfish the nice way.
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Mediawatch for 7 November 2010
Mediawatch investigates why Samoa's government is angry with TV3, and has called in lawyers to pursue its grievances against the broadcaster. We also look at who is behind a new weekly paper that's sprung up in the big cities, and why an unremarkable court case in Wellington was reported all over the country - and overseas.
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Mediawatch for 31 October 2010
This week, losing the plot of the Hobbit,an editor's effort to change the law and reform his readers and checking the facts.
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Mediawatch for 24 October 2010
Mediawatch looks at how one man refused to give a newspaper interview, but still ended up filling the best part of a page. Mediawatch also looks at a big week for a weekly business paper, how there's been no media honeymoon for a newly elected mayor, and talks to a man who turned the tables on Britain's tabloids.
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Mediawatch for 17 October 2010
This week the Mediawatch examines: the media battle for hearts and minds over offshore farm sales; the fallout from the Paul Henry affair and; the tacky treatment of a long-lived lady.
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Mediawatch for 10 October 2010
Paul Henry's insults go global; local election campaigns and covering Auckland's Super City; a claim of dirty tricks in Delhi; an alarming report of an addiction epidemic.
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Mediawatch for 3 October 2010
Today the Mediawatch team examines: The Commonwealth Games - have the media made a crisis out of a drama in Delhi? And are the preconceptions about India colouring the coverage?; Fiji's oldest newspaper under new management and; confusing news about life and death.
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Mediawatch Extra - The Canterbury Quake
The online-only companion to Mediawatch, taking in listeners' feedback and queries about the media coverage of the big quake which hit Canterbury.
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Mediawatch for 26 September 2010
Mediawatch looks at the impact of the 'new media' on the old. Can online amateurs really replace the professional journalism of today? Is it already happening? And if so - what effect is it having on standards?
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Mediawatch for 19 September 2010
Reporting local politics in the wake of Canterbury's quake; former Morning Report host Sean Plunket on broadcasting and; the ethics of deception for a TV investigation.
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Mediawatch for 12 September 2010
Responses to the coverage of the big quake in Canterbury, and what reporters, presenters and editors involved made of the criticism of it.
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Mediawatch for 5 September 2010
Coverage of the Canterbury quake; two rival editors team up and take sides; George Galloway vs The Nation; media men and their new gadget.
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Mediawatch Extra for September 2010
The online-only edition of Mediawatch, which takes in queries and comment from the listeners. This month: the contentious and closely contested media coverage of Middle East conflict; more fallout from 'The Unfortunate Experiment'; reaction to one rugby writer's rant about 'Rip-Off NZ'; slack selection of stock pics in papers; revealing tweets from professional journalists - and trivial ones.
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Mediawatch for 29 August 2010
Mediawatch looks at how to preserve serious and significant journalism. The lifeblood of advertising is draining away and emerging generations are choosing news they don't have to pay for. But print media veteran Gavin Ellis says it's not time to write the obituary yet. Mediawatch also looks at a lack of joined up thinking on TV news shows - and the push to open up a previously taboo topic of suicide.
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Mediawatch for 22 August 2010
This week the Mediawatch team looks at: the fallout from a candid confession; number nonsense in the news and; comedians targeting TV news - just taking the mickey or giving us clues about what's wrong with modern media?
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Mediawatch for 15 August 2010
This week Mediawatch takes a look at: the historical roots of journalism - and what that might tell us about its future; Hone Harawira's comment on preferred partners for his kids and; a free service offering journalists new sources - what's the catch?
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Mediawatch for 8 August 2010
Looking again at media coverage of conflict in the Middle East and why it is more closely contested than any other issue; how TV3 played fast and loose with people's privacy; and a programme which breached broadcasting standards three years ago is back on screen again on two different channels.
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Mediawatch for 1 August 2010
The fallout from calling a singing star 'retarded' and the international issue under greater scrutiny than any other - conflict in the Middle East.
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Mediawatch for 25 July 2010
Rugby writer's rant sparks debate on rip-off rates; an outsider's view of our papers; a TV veteran set to depart; who's creating political news?
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Mediawatch for 18 Jul 2010
South Africa defies press pessimism; outrageous self-promotion in the news; apples for no apparent reason; the fear of creating copycats; a big paper now out of print.
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Mediawatch for 11 July 2010
TVNZ's latest news shake-up; how the media handle suicide; the author who turned the drudgery of a newsroom into a best-seller; the price of sports punditry.
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Mediawatch for 4 July 2010
The role of the media in rolling Australia's PM and how Rolling Stone killed the career of a top military man, the state of business journalism as a much-admired weekly paper shuts up shop and a longtime business journalist gets out of the game for good.
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Mediawatch Extra for June 2010
The online-only edition of Mediawatch, which tackles queries and comments from listeners and updates stories from recent editions of the radio programme. This month - World Cup fever in the media; the press pack hunting Chris Carter; a crowdsourcing experiment, programmes marking 50 years of TV miss the mark.
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Mediawatch for 27 June 2010
All Whites draw but PM wins; Greens' main man slammed for pro-Tibet stand; two more views on the future of television; claims a radio presenter's been silenced by politics.
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Mediawatch for 20 June 2010
Hounding an under-fire MP; recruiting readers for newsgathering; Freeview and the digital switchover; the All Whites irritate cranky commentators.
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Mediawatch for 13 June 2010
Media frenzy over ministers' spending; a TV show hoaxing the news media; more views on TV's 50th anniversary; the end of the Independent.
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Mediawatch for 6 June 2010
TVNZ marks 50 years of television with a new channel of shows from the archives. But why is it only on pay TV? And will TVNZ be a public broadcaster in the future? Also: reporting from prison, and foreigners who love us.
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Mediawatch Extra for May 2010
The online-only edition of Mediawatch, which tackles queries and comments from listeners and updates stories from recent editions of the radio programme. This month - bad maths in the news; budget coverage gripes; bullish ads for TV news; the downside of tweeting; update on the PM in Afghanistan; and formal complaints about fatal footage, cow colostrum and the suitability of 'rooting'.
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Mediawatch for 30 May 2010
The debate about prisons, and a rare glimpse of what life's like behind bars; Iceland's initiative for media freedom; how a tragedy in 1975 changed attitudes to journalists' safety.
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Mediawatch for 23 May 2010
The battle for hearts and minds over smoking - and "crowdsourcing" vs "astroturfing"; politics trumps history in two land rights stories; Hanover's head honcho harshly harassed on holiday; GST guesswork and sporting corrections.
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Mediawatch for 16 May 2010
Reporting two stories which traumatised high school students, a Sunday paper's South African scoop, a NZ star of intelligent reality TV, rugby swearing, female cricketers forced to follow on and survey sex gets the media's attention.
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Mediawatch for 9 May 2010
Left out of the loop for the PM's 'secret' trip to Afghanistan, a broken embargo offshore, the partisan British press pick winners prematurely, reporters testing service at service stations.
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Mediawatch for 2 May 2010
Lobbying on the liquor laws, an ANZAC Day tragedy, reports of conflict over promoting peace, bad maths on TV, the spotlight on a rockstar businessman and are working mums really up in arms?
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Mediawatch Extra for April 2010
The online-only companion to Mediawatch, taking in queries and comments from listeners and updating some of the recent stories on the programme. This month: more plugging of 'The Pacific'; verdicts on revisiting the Unfortunate Experiment and climate change; political reporters picking winners; trash talking and trivia on Twitter.
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Mediawatch for 25 April 2010
How the media make use of social networking websites - and why you need to be careful; why political reporters try to pick winners; misunderstanding the nation's nuclear policy.
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Mediawatch for 18 April 2010
Picking over failed finance companies; proposals to curb the media in Fiji; sympathy for the poster boy of dirty dairying; strange reporting from the US.
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Mediawatch for 11 April 2010
The increasingly intense scrutiny of elected representatives, an MP interviews a politician for a change, the outcry over aviolent music video, and some seedy statistics.
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Mediawatch for 4 April 2010
Investment from China brings forth fears on talkback radio; the media focus on young offenders; a classic hoax; spinning Australia's papers - and keeping British ones afloat.
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Mediawatch for 04 April 2010
Investment from China brings forth fears on talkback radio; the media focus on young offenders; a classic hoax; spinning Australia's papers - and keeping British ones afloat.
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Mediawatch Extra 31 March 2010
The online-only companion to Mediawatch, taking in the best of the queries and comments from listeners and updating recent stories from the programme. This month: TV broadcasters plugging their own shows; windfalls for soccer and science; the parachute journalism debate continues; the return of Paul Henry corner; and how big is a postcard?
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Mediawatch for 28 March 2010
A company in crisis helps out a programme investigating its failures, TV3's pursuit of a date with Destiny Church's top man and Toby Manhire on the explosion of comment published by papers - on paper and online.
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Mediawatch for 21 March 2010
A widely condemned security scare scoop; Joanne Morris on six years in the chair at the outfit upholding broadcasting standards; how TV channels use the news to plug their upcoming entertainment shows.
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Mediawatch for 14 March 2010
A courageous Kiwi soldier in Afghanistan is hailed as a hero, but how did he end up in the headlines? An Australian initiative offers journalists here a platform to probe their own industry; more private lives being made public in the press.
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Mediawatch for 7 March 2010
Sounding the tsunami alert last weekend, RWC TV deal finally done, telling the tale of the Princess Ahsika from Tonga and with politicians' spending under scrutiny, do journalists get a free lunch.
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Mediawatch Extra 1 March 2010
The online-only companion to Mediawatch, taking in listeners' queries and comments and following up on recent stories in the programme. This month: the rights and wrongs of fatal footage in the news; more revision of the 'Unfortunate Experiment'; broadcasters using the news to plug their own programmes; and should New Zealanders go abroad for the big stories - or just use the locals?
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Mediawatch for 28 February 2010
Does Radio New Zealand need to be "saved" from the government as campaigners are claiming?; the challenge to a made-up climate change quote; journalists' gripes go global online.
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Mediawatch for 21 February 2010
Dwelling on a death in the TV news, whats the government expects from the governors of RNZ, a presnter pursuing a personal agenda on the air.
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Mediawatch for 14 February 2010
Sunday papers turning tabloid, the media condemn a court ruling shielding a local man from shame and how the PM got bumped by a shamed sportsman while Alan Bollard got gazumped by a pie.
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Mediawatch for 7 February 2010
The iPad, TV in HD and even 3D: hi-tech advances to enhance the future of the modern media? Or will they make the job even harder and confuse consumers, while making a buck for the makers? And - how the loose use of email can end up in the news.
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Mediawatch for 31 January 2010
TV3's Mike McRoberts and Dr Martin Hirst on the journalists getting involved in the catastrophe that's hit Haiti; stumbling upon suppression orders.
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Mediawatch Extra 30 December 2009
The online-only companion to 'Mediawatch' which takes in queries and comments from the listeners and updates recent 'Mediawatch' stories. This month - reviewing reviews of the year; Jim Salinger's sacking; Paul Henry's sanction; a one-sided exclusive; verdicts on the Weatherston trial coverage.
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Mediawatch for 20 December 2009
Mediawatch looks back at the good, the bad and the ugly in the media in 2009 - and gives out a few 'awards' for some of the ugliest.
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Mediawatch for 13 December 2009
Commercial broadcasters cutting costs and jobs. media boss Brent Impey on why he's quitting. a prize to help scientists manage the media and bring out your dead - the art of the obituary.
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Mediawatch for 6 December 2009
TV3 is 20 years old, but its boss for the last 10 years is stepping aside; top-class TV shows about the world around us are made here - but not many are screened; and reviving a survivor - the future of the tabloid Truth.
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Mediawatch for 29 November 2009
A view on the future of NZ newspapers from a man who knows their past; reporting Rotorua's airport controversey; 'newsmercials' and naming names in the news.
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Mediawatch Extra for November 2009
The online-only edition of Mediawatch, which takes in questions and comments from listeners and updates Mediawatch stories from recent weeks. This month: companies covering reporters' costs; taking offence at satire; jazzing up a newspaper; tough and tacky treatment for a luckless new movie.
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Mediawatch for 22 November 2009
This week the Mediawatch team look at: rugby's grip on the sports media - and soccer suddenly in the spotlight; claims that cash-strapped media companies are going soft on the rich and powerful plus; the response to the revelation that a prominent writer has borrowed bits of other authors' books.
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Mediawatch for 15 November 2009
Lack of scepticism in stories about stem cell treatments; the role of the media amid moves for more democracy in Tonga; more on businesses covering reporterscosts.
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Mediawatch for 8 November 2009
This week the Mediawatch team look at: assisted passage - companies encouraging media coverage by covering reporters' expenses; television news leaving little to the imagination and; the quest to get words right in the era of blogging, spellcheck and texting.
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Mediawatch for 1 November 2009
TVNZ promo poses political problems; taking offence at what's in the news; the difficulties of sending up sensitive issues; 3D returns to TV, Hollywood . . . and Stratford.
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Mediawatch Extra 29 October 2009
The online-only companion to Radio New Zealand's Mediawatch programme, taking in comments from listeners and updating recent stories from the show. This month: Samoa's tsunami; covering climate change and copied comment; the 'Mad Men' mocking us with their ads; and those silly schoolboys - fascist or just foolish?
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Mediawatch for 11 October 2009
This week the Mediawatch team: look at the prospect of wall-to-wall rugby on TV; they talk to radio boss Bill Francis on tough economic times and difficult personalities; examine belt tightening at the public broadcaster Radio NZ and; put scantily sourced stories about male vanity under scrutiny.
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Mediawatch for 18 October 2009
Broadcasting the World Cup becomes a political football; a charity unhappy with the income from a top TV show; does the media get it right reporting tragedies? and; is there ever a place for psychics in such sensitive stories?
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Mediawatch for 11 October 2009
Authentic voices reporting from Samoa, the future of free-to-air sport on television and Maori TV's bid for the World Cup gets political and satirical.
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Mediawatch for 4 October 2009
Tsunami strikes Samoa and Tonga - and mixed messages in the media about danger here; Mike King on confronting depression and addiction on the radio; the challenge of reporting climate change comprehensively.
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