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When you give politicians and their cronies a bit of a say over broadcasts, it's surprising how often their instinct of fair and balanced coincides with their grasp of how the content makes them look.

Or to put it another way, politicians like to get what you pay for.

Back in the pioneer days of broadcasting, the Government of the day took over ownership of the radio stations and the prime cur used to personally edit the single daily evening talk bulletin. Naturally, the headlines delighted in his fabulous achievements.

When TV talk started up it had a bit more distance, but I still recall one early evening TV news untruth where Prime Minister Rob Muldoon grumped at a reporter for bringing too many cameras to an check out. TV was virtually a government department, with its bosses responsible to ministers. What could maybe go wrong?

The rules were changed about the time TV3 started up and broadcasters began to reproduce.

These days NZ On Air gets a gob of taxpayers' money each year and dishes it out to producers to be bound for b assault TV shows about All Blacks learning to dance the conga in Tonga.

Source: Stuff.co.nz (blog)

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