Maori Party Overhang Strategy

over red rover just once everyone thinks that raiser should run for uh mp well he's free now isn't he wasn't didn't he get booted from the all blacks coach was it raiser that was there yeah so he's got time who would he run for maybe he could be part of top i don't know just putting it out there maybe hey um I watched you guys last night. and I saw you talking about broadcasting and broadcasters and what is a broadcaster and when we texted today we were like should we talk about that couple of old heads here been around for a while seen a few things and today by chance the AUT most trusted news brand survey came out so let's have a quick look at this and then let's flow into a conversation around broadcasting and broadcasters because I've talked about In October last year when we absolutely obliterated Karen Plunkett's desire not to be a broadcaster by demonstrating how he was, I might play a couple of clips from our October conversation because I saw you ask that question of Hushin last night. I'm like, the answer is yes. It's as simple as that. It's yes. But before we get there, RNZ remains New Zealand's most trusted brand, says the survey. RNZ has held on to the top spot as New Zealand's most trusted news brand. News brand and the latest trust in news in Aotearoa New Zealand report the seventh annual report by AUT's journalism media and democracy research center found found 57 percent of those surveyed trust rnz their target daily times was ranked the second most trusted brand followed by tvnz in third place um yeah yeah good people i agree i actually spoke to them today to see if i could get dr treadwell to come on and they were all very much oh we like we yeah i'm sorry we can't come on we're enjoying bfm bfm bfm and and and you know my question was my question was why haven't you got independent media in there you're in this because i'm sure that i mean they may not be the same height of you know understanding as rnz but you know you should do it on independent media and see how that comes out the other thing i was going to say the thing that i find hilarious about this is all the people who don't trust rnz most of the time when the floods happen or there's a cyclone coming in guess what they're fucking listening to rnz why because it's trusted anyway Go on with the story. RNZ also held the top spot for most trusted news brand in the 2025 survey. The 2026 report found New Zealanders trust in news has overall increased significantly. That word significantly is doing some heavy lifting. About 37% of respondents said they trust, quote, most of the news most of the time, end quote, compared to 32% in 2025, while trust in the news people consumed themselves was up 50% compared to 45% in 2025. General trust in news in Aotearoa is at 37% compared to the 2025 Reuters Digital News Report international average of 48 countries of... of 40%. So, you know, margin of error. Trust was the highest in Finland, 67%, and lowest in Greece and Hungary, both at 22%. I wonder why that is, Mr Alban. And this, I think, is from the head of RNZ. Age is often perceived as likely determination of news trust. Those who are more likely to trust news were 75 years plus, 45%, 35 to 40. Four years old was 44%. 25 to 39 years old was 43%. Those who are most likely to mistrust news, ironically, were over 55 with 54% of those 55 to 64. That's just at the start of Boomer, by the way, just at the end of Gen X. Disagreeing that the news can be trusted, the report also found 78% of New Zealanders are... actively avoiding the news to some degree this is a significant increase from 73 percent in 2025 when asked why New Zealanders were actively avoiding the news 53 percent of respondents said they avoid the news because it negatively affects their mood and 34 percent said they are worn out by the news so that's the ideology of what is it bliss and ignorance ignorance is bliss rather just not know article was actually this is by the actual academics themselves themselves have written this in the conversation and i thought so there's the there's the ratings went from 53 in 2020 and they pop back up to 37 they see it a significant increase i don't know five percent well that's significant maybe maybe not but i thought there's a couple of interesting things in here and this is some of the uh in radio we'd call this a psychographic listener a particular person doing a particular thing so this is a particular person as one male pakiha respondent age 35 to 44 put it traditional news networks and journalists will end up regaining trust because there will be no way to tell whether something is AI bullshit or not. That's what they said. AI had a lot to do with the increase in trust, they reckon. Dum-dum-dum-dum. Male Pākehā respondent 35 to 44 who voted New Zealand first said mainstream media is biased woke swings extremely to the left and is by and large extremely and completely untrustworthy. The distrust is not confined to the political right. A Green voter from the same demographic said most providers are owned by the wealthy and often put a right-wing spin on reporting. Female Pākehā, 45 to 54, voted Green. I trust it because I know how it is produced and I understand its limitations. Māori, 45 to 54 voter, Te Pāti Māori. I trust in the integrity of professional journalism here. Male Pākehā, 25 to 34, voted Labour. I trust the news because one of it's true because one it's true and two it's definitely true it's a nice way of kind of putting it there so let's talk about trusted media to start with and then we'll go over to you know the broadcasting standards and I find it hilarious that all these guys that want to look at the dictionary definition of what is a woman they refuse to look at the dictionary definition of what is a broadcaster but that's for the next conversation he said