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‘Let them watch Netflix’ – what can be salvaged from the wreckage of the failed TVNZ-RNZ merger?

  • Written by Peter Thompson, Associate Professor of Media Studies, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
‘Let them watch Netflix’ – what can be salvaged from the wreckage of the failed TVNZ-RNZ merger?Getty Images

The government’s decision to abandon the Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media (ANZPM) Bill came as no surprise after months of increasingly negative speculation. Officially, it stems from the prioritisation of “bread and butter issues” during a cost-of-living crisis, but it’s hard not to see this as a significant...

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