Broadcasting Minister Willie Jackson being interviewed by Jack Tame on TVNZ Q+A. Photo / TVNZ
Editorial
EDITORIAL
Mutualism is a symbiotic relationship where all species involved benefit from their interactions. It could be said that journalism and politics have such an association.
News organisations gain an audience by sharing and analysing political activity; while politicians need the press to explain to the public why legislative change
is needed and what progress is and isn’t being made.
However, care is needed to avoid what may constitute as unhealthy interference.
This is the very territory Broadcasting Minister Willie Jackson strayed into with his belligerent responses to TVNZ interviewer Jack Tame this week on the Government’s aim to create a single public media entity by combining TVNZ and RNZ.