One can hate the mainstream media but OMG you sure will miss it when it’s gone.
Up to 300 jobs are expected to be lost as one of our biggest commercial media company’s newsrooms – Newshub – is set to close at the end of June.
Dozens of high-profile presenters and journalists such as 6pm news hosts Mike McRoberts and Samantha Hayes and new 7pm show frontman Ryan Bridge are among the hundreds about to lose their jobs.
Up to 350 people work at Warner Bros. Discovery in New Zealand with about 200 understood to be devoted to news, in editorial, commercial and backroom roles. A slimmed-down company might see only 50 staff remain, one source has suggested.”
No better evidence that politicians live and breathe mainstream media like a snorkel sustains a pearl diver than Winston Peters being deeply unhappy about it.From Radio New Zealand:
Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters framed the situation as a disaster for the staff and New Zealand.”A critical part of any democracy and free society is the fourth estate, an independent fourth estate, and I’m concerned about where we’re going now,” he said.”Frankly for those 300 or so staff and their spouses and their families, this is an absolute disaster. But it’s also a disaster for this country’s democracy.”He would not make any commitments about possible policy changes for the media industry.”
Far more of the public capacity to hold our political order to account, or to simply promulgate and explain policy, will fall on the shoulders of non-edited news like X, Facebook, and Snapchat.
It is also a reflection on our low-wealth economy that Warner Brothers saw that New Zealand did not have the advertising depth to support it.
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