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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.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018927944/discovery-warners-to-close-newshub-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.

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Account deleted 1y ago

I worked on a couple productions by Whakaata Māori, good memories.

News are not what they were supposed to be. (Man, the Newsroom was a fun show). Current models pretty much deserve to die. But it won’t, they won’t let it. It’s a too important piece of the PR puzzle. Alternative news at the moment is maybe even worse than mainstream, it’s so cheap it becomes easy for some to flood their content.

Nostr has much to offer in terms of dreaming new models of news. I got stuck in some heated revolt in Thailand years ago. To try to make sense of what was going on around me it was important that I could see the same event under multiple angles, be it with videos of the clashes or ideological angles with the reports. Finding and « vetting » the info was time consuming, nostr can make the same process light speed.

joiestylotus 1y ago

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.

Hazey 1y ago

News is just state propaganda, so good riddance