"Nobody has yet come up with a credible case for amalgamating Radio New Zealand and Television New Zealand."

"Nobody has yet come up with a credible case for amalgamating Radio New Zealand and Television New Zealand. Even so, the merger proceeds apace, costing the taxpayer a ridiculous amount of money – to no good end. No one truly believes the quality of the broadcasting product will improve. The present audiences of both networks have longstanding gripes with the overall direction of their public broadcasters, but the response of those in charge has been to double-down on the very policies their audiences find most objectionable....
    "Citing the growing strength of the purveyors of misinformation and disinformation on social media, government mouthpieces have presented the new 'entity' as the place where New Zealanders anxious to learn what’s really going on can go to for 'the facts.' They are being encouraged to think of the new entity as a sort of beefed-up version of the Prime Minister’s infamous 'podium of truth' during Covid.
    "God save us!"
           ~ Chris Trotter from his post 'More Than One way to Skin A Cat'