"Sean Plunket ... also had NZ First leader Winston Peters on, and he said the move to regulate online content was 'bordering on fascist', and called for the [Broadcasting Standards Authority] agency to be abolished."

#PhilVine, RNZ Senior Podcast Producer, 2026

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=09e9f485-f47e-492a-9e15-9e43e38ef641

My knee-jerk reaction is people often know their neighbours. So given Dogwhistle Peters has been bordering on fascism for years, he'd know

But seriously ...

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#podcasts #RNZ #MediaWatch #MediaRegulation

Non era un drone russo

#Auvere #mediawatch

Leggete con attenzione, questa è la verifica odierna su Perplexity. Viene smentita la notizia del drone russo in Estonia.

#Russia #Ucraina #droni #mediawatch #Auvere #Estonia

"When ad spend on media peaked 20 years ago, advertising accounted for 1.25% of our entire GDP. But now, in this increasingly digital days, it's around 0.75%."

#ColinPeacock, 2026

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2019028882/who-s-winning-the-war-where-ad-money-goes-chathams-scandal

So what does this tell us? What all the wailing and gnashing of teeth about the big DataFarms hoovering up most of the remaining ad spend obscures or avoid admitting;

Advertising is a dying industry. Has been since the net went mainstream.

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#podcasts #RNZ #MediaWatch #advertising

Il presidente della Federal Communications Commission (FCC) statunitense, Brendan Carr, ha lanciato una minaccia: "Perderanno la licenza le emittenti che distorcono le notizie".

https://www.peacelink.it/mediawatch/a/51125.html

#censura #mediawatch #USA #Iran