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Podcast: The Mike Hosking Breakfast
Episode: Mike's Minute: The taxpayer can't be the only provider for TV news
Description: There is some angst in some media circles at the moment over funding for Mฤori TV news.ย A couple of programmes are facing some sort of cut, or cancellation, or realignment because of changes in the way money is handed out from the Mฤori funding agency.ย This is not new. Media in this country post-Covid has gone through a fairly major overhaul with many a casualty and a pile of significant change.ย The reality for media that is funded by the state is you are beholden to the purveyor of the purse...