If you look into the "comms" budgets of NZ public services, you'll find that every year they give huge pots of money to corporate platforms, to "promote" public service messages to kiwis using them. At the same, they've been considering making those same companies give money to legacy news media companies, instead of funding public interest journalism (FDNBB), and now they're cutting funding to public media.

This is absurd.

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#SocialMedia #PublicService #GovernmentCommunications #FDNBB

Newsrooms in Aotearoa are bleeding staff - again - and some are holding up the Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill as the solution, based on the supposed success of the similar Australian law, the News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code. Now Meta have announced a game of chicken with the government there over whether they have to comply with that law;

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018928918/australia-labor-holds-dunkley-seat-meta-bails-on-news-deal

#RNZ #NineToNoon #NewsMedia ##FDNBB

"But the way it gets framed... is that [going after FB and Google] is the silver bullet, this is what will save journalism... And that's a dangerous argument to make, because it completely diverts our attention from what we really should be focusing on. And that is to try to find non-market means of support for the journalism that democracy requires."

#VictorPickard, Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy, University of Pennsylvania2024

https://techwontsave.us/episode/205_whats_really_killing_the_news_media_w_victor_pickard

#NewsMedia #FDNBB