"Removing content standards such as accuracy, balance and fairness, I think invites a significant political risk. You could end up with a rogue media operator with significant market power that chose to ignore them, with impunity. And I think that's politically dangerous, democratically it's indefensible."

#DrPeterThompson, 2026

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=bdb1a4a8-a91f-48a0-ac5e-f81f354a7021

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/594762/mediawatch-putting-down-the-watchdog

This is a very complicated issue, and I'm still figuring out what I think.

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#BSA #MediaWatch #RNZ #podcasts

MediaWatch this week interviewed Dr Peter Thompson of Better Public Media about Labour's Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018927313/a-lifeboat-to-keep-news-afloat

BPM think that the bill misses the target, and is likely to benefit larger news media companies - if any - more than small ones. Instead, they proposes using an industry-wide levy - say on all digital ad revenues - to fund something like the Public Journalism Fund.

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#podcasts #RNZ #Mediawatch #DrPeterThompson #BetterPublicMedia

"And then of course the harvesting of our personal data - quite apart from the privacy issues - has been used to orchestrate campaigns specifically to undermine democratic process. Both in the Brexit campaign, and in the US presidential election. I haven't got time to talk about Cambridge Analytica today, but Google them.

...I don't think they're all-powerful, but a 1% nudge in a tight election could make quite a big difference."

#DrPeterThompson, 2019

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=c-2Bck-pa_s

#DataFarming