Posts by Keir Leslie
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But Hague's fine on that stuff. He ran a DHB after all.
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Legal Beagle: Council Elections: STV Q&A, in reply to Hebe,
Yes --- 14 %age points on the party vote will be hard to make up. I'll be totally honest, I didn't go to the selection meeting, and haven't personally met Poto Williams (living on the other side of town as I do.) However, I'm told by people who've worked closely with her that she's pretty awesome. She's got a very good record of service to vulnerable communities.
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Legal Beagle: Council Elections: STV Q&A, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
I agree --- wouldn't quibble with that.
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Local body politics is a bit of a nightmare for forcing weird strategic decisions, and can be very opaque from outside.
Claims that local body is non-party are weakly supported by evidence. If you look at Auckland/Wellington/Christchurch, there are clear party lines, if not as coherent or extensive as at national level, and obviously differing in detail.
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But without that change in legislation requiring the TVNZ Board on downwards to only make money and give it back to the Government, there’s no reason why TVNZ 7 couldn’t have continued, subsidised by the profits from ONE and 2.
I think that the reality is that cross subsidization of PSB by a primarily commercial organisation is not sustainable across governments. And we need a model that lasts for longer than the next Labour government. I think that the solution has to be more radical and deep. (I am not sure what that solution actually is.)
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Hard News: Moving on, in reply to Sacha,
Mostly because the attempts have been too timid --- not bold enough or far enough to embed themselves firmly enough. I very much agree about need to go beyond TV.
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The actual detailed policy is going to be important, and especially fitting it within a very tight fiscal framework.
In particular, I think big question is: given the current model of NZOA/TVNZ/RNZ plus private players doesn't add up to a public broadcasting service, how do we change the model to make it add up to a public broadcasting service? For instance, would it make sense to, say, merge TVNZ, RNZ, and much of the NZOA funding stream into a NZ Broadcasting?
I think evidence shows that TVNZ-as-SOE won't deliver public broadcasting. Attempts to set up another platform have generally failed. So I think that we have to reorient TVNZ to public service broadcasting, and I think that means some pretty serious legislative and organisational changes, and we have to start looking at how we make the sums add up.
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Hard News: Moving on, in reply to Sacha,
You mean like:
Labour believes in a public broadcasting service that informs, entertains, and uplifts—a service that reflects the diversity of voices in our country. An informed democracy needs a strong, independent, free public-broadcasting media service. Public funding is essential to maintaining that strength.
9.15 Public service broadcasting needs to be engaged with all New Zealanders and give them a way to be heard. While we will all debate and contest different views of the world, to have that debate we need a public sphere where we share opinions and facts.
9.16 Labour knows that the current commercial media market does not deliver this. We believe that public broadcasting should deliver a genuine public good rather than focuses solely the financial needs of its owner (the Crown). We make sure that public broadcasting structures are not unnecessarily duplicative, and that best practice is shared across current service providers.
9.17 Labour believes public broadcasting includes new media. Publicly funded productions should make full use of the possibilities of online media.?
Damian, I agree with you to some extent there, but at the same time isn't the decision to have a funder/provider split part of that problem?
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Have to say, I rather think that announcement was a little mmm, flat? Like, sure, Tim Barnett in a room at Fraser House is pretty adorable, but I wouldn't have minded slightly more razzmatazz.
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I think Paul Eagle has done really good work as far as pushing the Council to be a decent employer goes.