Back in late 2023, I said of TVNZ
"If left to limp along as a for-profit, the few really useful things it still owns (free-to-air broadcast infrastructure, studios, etc) are at risk of neglect and asset stripping."
https://disintermedia.net.nz/reimagining-public-media-in-aotearoa/
What I didn't know at the time was that the broadcast infrastructure is actually owned by a different SOE, Kordia.
But the cancellation of Fair Go and other flagship TVNZ shows was an example of what I meant.
For those who think Jack Tame is biased against the right because he regularly exposes right-wing politicians and their bullshit non-answers, here he is doing exactly the same thing to Chris Hipkins;
https://m.soundcloud.com/qandanz/chris-hipkins-will-capital-gains-tax-have-unfair-outcomes
"Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision was formed by the amalgamation of the New Zealand Film Archive Ngā Kaitiaki O Ngā Taonga Whitiāhua, Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero, and the Television New Zealand Archive between 2012 and 2014."
https://www.ngataonga.org.nz/about-us/who-we-are/about-nga-taonga-sound-vision/#our-story
#HatTip to the audio-visual archivists, helping to defend us all from the Ministry of Truth and the memory hole, one recording at a time : )
#AudioVisual #archiving#NgāTaonga#NZFilmArchive#NZSoundArchives#TVNZ
"... the crisis is looming, as it is in many other countries in the west, we're not alone. You look at Britain, you look at the US, you look at France ... the West has a problem, and when is it going to ween itself off debt."
#RuthRichardson, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORHkxrYatEg
Um, no. What we actually need to ween ourselves off is oil. Finite, polluting, increasingly expensive fossil fuels. That's a problem. This "Debt crisis" is an invention and a distraction.
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