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This is the last time I will comment on 2023 election polls. They don't matter nearly as much as the news media seem to think. What matters is policy.

Poll focused coverage turns elections into a horse race between 2 "blocks", as if we're still running elections under FPP. We're not. Thanks to MMP, our elections are no longer a mostly pointless choice between Tweedledee and Tweedledum. They're a choice among many competing visions for the country's future, and policies to support them.

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Strypey 2y ago

"It's OK to report on the optics of politics, but it shouldn't come at the expense of reporting on substance, and newsrooms need to make sure they're getting the balance right.

#DanielBrunskill, politics and economics reporter, Interest.co.nz

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018904936/horse-race-journalism-as-national-takes-aim-at-squeezed-middle

#podcasts #RNZ #Mediawatch

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