This shouldn't be controversial, it should be the core focus.

The media is as big and as influental a part?

what additional rights do the media have that other New Zealanders do not?
why is each of these rights limited to media, and is the denial of these rights to other New Zealanders justifiable in 2012?

State regulation of who may be a journalist? No thank you.

For me Graeme's question raises the issue of the decline of investigative journalism. How?

informant means a person who gives information to a journalist in the normal course of the journalist?s work in the expectation that the?

I didn't go through formal channels because the time that would take renders it pointless.

Hope you are doing ok now Matt.
I think you are right too. Campbell Live seems to always come across as a show with integrity whenever I watch it. I think it helps that their frontman is genuine.

The proposed criteria that the Law Commission is kicking around are:

...in order to qualify for these special news media privileges and exemptions, publishers must have the following?

So the sources of evidence for Nicky Hager?s books are not protected? Try again, Law Commission.

Possibly a more accurate statement of intent behind this condition could be that "the information disclosed is expected to be published within a reasonable timeframe" ... and possibly also "the informant should be informed in advance of?

The only practical regulation outside the normal constraint of the law that I can think of would be for any registered news media publication to?

When North & South's editor refused to acknowledge that its 'Asian Angst' story was biased and hugely wrong in fact, it was the magazine's membership of?

And on that note ...

Referral of alleged breaches of the Broadcasting Act 1989 and Electoral Act 1993

On 27 February 2012, the Electoral Commission referred?

The Press Council and analogous bodies are justified, it seems to me, because the industry participants have disproprotionate clout in communication — they are not just media, they are *mass* media. They are self-regulating as part of an informal deal with the public that in curbing their?

in the definition of agency in s 2 of the Privacy Act 1993, I would change paragraph (xiii) from the current:

agency means any person or body of persons, whether corporate or unincorporate, ? but ? does not include?
?
(xiii)?

__What the news media do in a democracy is special and worthy of protection. This protection arises because of what they do, not who they are. When others do the same things, they are just as worthy of protection, and that protection is just as important to?

this example does not affect the need to settle on a definition of news media for other purposes ? eg the right to stay in court when others are excluded; exemption from the Privacy Act principles; exemption from s9 of the the Fair Trading Act (which is currently confined?

However.

Here?s the thing. On the one hand you say you saw your story ?twisted through various forms of fiction? and?

This isn't about news?

Just to note that there's a new and more detailed post from the Law Commission, titled 'Who guards the guardians?', about what a new media regulator could look like and how it might act.

Slightly off topic but those numbers are rubbish, they are apparently the total amount requested including one-offs to cover back payments to staff and other expenses. The ongoing amount is much less. William Akel,?

I have run through various scenarios through my head as to how I could have seen news events followed, alas, my lack of media training, chemically and emotionally affected behaviors and memories, etc. probably also contributed to the mess of news reporting I currently am in disagreement with.?

Yes I take your point although in an ideal world the government would be compelled to arbitrate in such matters if the harm is deemed significant enough.

>>"Or perhaps a news?

It states "Online discussion – Who needs the news media? – join the debate.."

I see from this page that the current discussion isn't about needing the media at all, and assumes I've read the DD, which?

The current law suggests to me that those in the news media field, collect the news and publish the news.

And obviously, per above, the news provider is in?

I see no reason to make distinctions as?

The EPMU inherited the Journalists? Union role upon merging, but currently its role in the Press Council?

no longer exist

APNZ

Now that... was embarrassing.
But at least they did exist... right?

Now that really was embarrassing. If there is room for this clown on NZ TV then why do we have to lose TVNZ7?

Regulator probes Sky – TVNZ Igloo venture

It would be a useful test for any new regime to consider specifically how it would deal with people like him who believe the?

I say bury him up to his neck on a rugby field and wait for kick off.