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Media Expertise Under Scrutiny | Christchurch News
Helen Houghton is demanding accountability after media outlets elevated Byron Clark—whose book she says misrepresents her—as an extremist expert, sparking a legal settlement and forcing a reckoning over how “expert” status is granted in journalism. Clark and his publisher apologized following a chapter that inaccurately portrayed her, raising alarms about media vetting and the power of publication to shape political narratives. Houghton insists the line between opinion and fact must be drawn clearly, especially when reputations are at stake—and she’s calling for publishers like The Spinoff to…
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