A Warning about the Concentration of Media Ownership in NZ (pn708)

First, the author, then his writing.*

Bryan Gould  was born in Hawera and has Law degrees from Victoria University (B.A. Ll.B.) and Auckland University (Ll.M. first-class honours). A Rhodes scholarship in 1962  led him to Balliol College at Oxford, a futher degree in Law (the B.C.L., with first-class honours)  and careers  as an academic, a  diplomat,  a television journalist, and a Labour Party MP (1974-79; 1983-93).

Returning from the UK in 1994 he was Vice-Chancellor at the University of Waikato until his retirement in 2004, and has continued to be active in a number of tertiary education and research bodies.  He was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (CNZM) and in 2006 was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Waikato. He has written a number of books including  The Democracy Sham: How Globalisation Devalues Your Vote (2006), Rescuing the New Zealand Economy (2007), Myths, Politicians and Money: the Truth behind the Free Market (2013) and publishes a blog Bryan Gould.  He is currently working on a book on moral philosophy. 

In this posting he warns against the concentration and biases of media ownership, issues I've referred to in several posts, for example, pn576 and pn696.

Read, enjoy and heed by  clicking here.

* Note my practise of  saying something about authors. I think this puts their qualifications, experience, personal opinions and biases up front, leaving readers to decide the worth of what they write. So often, with the mainstream media, the former are ignored and the biases are hidden. -- ACW