I am into my 9th decade. I seldom watch TV news. Amongst my friends and acquaintances, that is the norm. Why? Because TV news in NZ is short on news and slanted to the left.
"short on news" but the range of stories covered in "MSM" over the course of weeks and months is so much greater than the agenda-driven snippets promoted online, or in the spheres where the vaccines and Jacinda and trans issues and hate speech laws and how "the media is the enemy of the people" are still the main topics 6 months after Labour were voted out.
Part of the "media crisis" is not just 'bias' - there is alternative opinion everywhere, and TV is probably more likely than alternative media to have more than one view. A big part of the crisis is loss of a shared sense of just what noteworthy events have happened and are worth having commentary about.
I am into my 9th decade. I seldom watch TV news. Amongst my friends and acquaintances, that is the norm. Why? Because TV news in NZ is short on news and slanted to the left.
"short on news" but the range of stories covered in "MSM" over the course of weeks and months is so much greater than the agenda-driven snippets promoted online, or in the spheres where the vaccines and Jacinda and trans issues and hate speech laws and how "the media is the enemy of the people" are still the main topics 6 months after Labour were voted out.
Part of the "media crisis" is not just 'bias' - there is alternative opinion everywhere, and TV is probably more likely than alternative media to have more than one view. A big part of the crisis is loss of a shared sense of just what noteworthy events have happened and are worth having commentary about.