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Broadcasting Standards Authority to be scrapped (www.rnz.co.nz)

submitted 1 week ago by Dave@lemmy.nz to c/politics@lemmy.nz

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The Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) will be scrapped in favour of having the media self-regulate, the media and communications minister has confirmed.

"The suggestion is that the Media Council would become a sort of a self-regulatory body for journalism and holding standards, and so people can go through that process," he told Midday Report.

"Alternatively, they can just turn it off and listen to somebody else. And then any entity, if they find that they're offending everybody and nobody listens to them, will soon be out of business."

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[–] _ed@lemmy.nz 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Talk about an abdication of responsibility.

But it's ok some of the edgelord broadcasters have a solution.

...If misinformation was being spread online, people could complain to those spreading it, he said...

Eyes a rolling.

[–] _ed@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 week ago

At the same time, it is no longer local news organisations, radio and television to manage. How would a modern framework work and what communications would it be able to oversee?