Aotearoa New Zealand might soon be a country without broadcast television news. The primary commercial TV station, the Disney / Warner owned Newshub is being shutdown in June.
And the only remaining other broadcast news will be the te reo maori language tv network and its sister English language tvnz news. The problem is that now the government has just announced major cuts to tvnz’s news departments.
https://thespinoff.substack.com/p/tvnz-braces-for-bad-news-as-seymour
What happens to a country that loses all TV news? Do we have alternative models for funding news on that level? Will we revert to small independent collectives of journalists using their iPhones and social media? I’m no big fan of traditional broadcast media but I’m concerned we haven’t developed a good alternative while the old model dies.
Will the folks like my mom who watches the tv news every night only get their news from facebook now?
Clearly we are trying to build an alternative together here, but it’s a little scary to see how fast the old order is collapsing.
That would be a MAJOR problem for New Zealand!
(I know a Kiwi person, whom I met in 🇬🇧London.)
I still watch TV news (David Muir) every night altho sometimes not since it’s been very stressful watching it lately.
Obviously, I also watch international 📺 news also (🇬🇧BBC) and haven’t watched 🇫🇷France24 nor 🇩🇪DW since no longer available.
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