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Shayne Currie: NZME Editor-at-Large on TVNZ launching an independent review into news content · Best of Business

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to a podcast from News Talk zed B
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  Speaker 2: TV and zed's launching an independent review to check its
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  Speaker 2: news for balance and bias. It follows Media Minister Paul
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  Speaker 2: Goldsmith signaling his desire to see trust and media statistics
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  Speaker 2: improve for the state broadcasters. Shane carries the Media Insider
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  Speaker 2: at the held and with.
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  Speaker 3: Me Tonight, Hi Shane evening Ryan.
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  Speaker 2: So are they biased?
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  Speaker 3: It depends depends on the viewer right. Certainly. The feedback
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  Speaker 3: that TV and Z will get, and all media organizations
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  Speaker 3: generally will get, is that some people will like your story,
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  Speaker 3: some people won't. And that is especially so with political coverage.
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  Speaker 3: And I've noticed it just in the last two or
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  Speaker 3: three years covering TV and Z quite closely. The number
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  Speaker 3: of emails I receive about their political coverage especially is
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  Speaker 3: quite telling.
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  Speaker 2: Are they doing too much editorializing off the back of
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  Speaker 2: their coverage? Do you think?
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  Speaker 3: I think that's a really good point, I think, And
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  Speaker 3: that's what the independent review will probably look at. A
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  Speaker 3: guy from the XABC in Australia, a guy called Alan Sunderland,
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  Speaker 3: and what's happening is generally speaking, the coverage of a
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  Speaker 3: particular issue is probably okay. It's seen when the reporter
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  Speaker 3: comes in at the end and gives an opinion or
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  Speaker 3: analysis that the viewer might take asue. With the feedback
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  Speaker 3: we get a lot of is just report the news.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, just to say the facts and then buger.
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  Speaker 3: Off and both sides or as many sides as possible
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  Speaker 3: within reason. I mean with television you know better than
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  Speaker 3: most it's what a two or three minute story. See,
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot to cram in.
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  Speaker 2: I'm wondering, shame, whether this is an issue that's actually
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  Speaker 2: not about today but about the last five years, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I think their reporting has changed considerably, the same with
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  Speaker 2: arn Z, and the stories you see and here today
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  Speaker 2: are actually quite different to the ones you might have
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  Speaker 2: heard during COVID. Yet, well, yeah, are they being punished
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  Speaker 2: for perhaps some behaviors back then.
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  Speaker 3: I think what we saw in COVID was the making
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  Speaker 3: within the sausage factory, right in terms of those daily
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  Speaker 3: one o'clock press conferences, and the journalists and question lines
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  Speaker 3: which were happening for many, many years previous and since,
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  Speaker 3: were suddenly in the spotlight themselves, and people took exception
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  Speaker 3: to some of the questions, the way the press conferences
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  Speaker 3: were handled by the Prime Minister at the time, and
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  Speaker 3: there were some other factors as well that led people
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  Speaker 3: to think, you know, this was a bit of a
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  Speaker 3: cozy club. Wrong in a lot of respects, but still
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  Speaker 3: that's the perception that's emerged, and the media has been
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  Speaker 3: fighting it ever since.
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  Speaker 2: They'll soon be sharing a building. Do you think arn
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  Speaker 2: Z might get a bit of this review treatment.
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  Speaker 3: Too, well? I think aren Z's got its own issues
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  Speaker 3: in terms of that, and possibly even bigger issues than
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  Speaker 3: TV and ZAID. I think that with the TV and ZAID,
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  Speaker 3: I mean Paul Godsmith, the Media Minister has asked both
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  Speaker 3: of them to improve their trust levels. They will both
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  Speaker 3: argue that they are near the top of most surveys,
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  Speaker 3: but as public broadcasters, Paul Godsmam says, they've got to
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  Speaker 3: do a lot better.
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  Speaker 2: Shane Carry, appreciate you on the show tonight, Shane Carry
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  Speaker 2: Media inside It at the Herald. You can read his column. Well,
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  Speaker 2: you do multiple columns per week, really, don't you, Shane.
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  Speaker 3: You're You're the busiest man in media right now.
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  Speaker 2: Mister Bridge. As Shane Carried for
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