The Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) will be scrapped in favour of having the media self-regulate, the media and communications minister has confirmed.
“The suggestion is that the Media Council would become a sort of a self-regulatory body for journalism and holding standards, and so people can go through that process,” he told Midday Report.
“Alternatively, they can just turn it off and listen to somebody else. And then any entity, if they find that they’re offending everybody and nobody listens to them, will soon be out of business.”
This is awful. The nz alt media space is so fucking vile with this gone its going to seep into mainstream programming.
The alt media space is currently dominated by extremists on both ends but the right is much larger so it’s going to be what ends up on TV.