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Is Winston Peters right to call state-funded journalism ‘bribery’ – or is there a bigger threat to democracy?

  • Written by Peter Thompson, Associate Professor of Media Studies, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington

Winston Peters had only just been sworn in as deputy prime minister when his long-standing antipathy to the news media emerged in the form of a serious accusation.

Referring to the Public Interest Journalism Fund (PIJF) set up under the previous Labour government (and no longer operating), the NZ First leader claimed “you can’t defend...

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