"This does not make one better than the other – but it does make them different.

Good on Steve for trying to be non-partisan. But the evidence from the ad-funded web is in, and it's pretty clear anything would be better.

"It is this difference that makes ownership a significant issue. Building an organisation that serves the public interest will bring together quite different people and behave in a different way to one that exists to deliver audiences to advertisers."

#SteveMaharey, 2019

"In essence, public broadcasters acquire funding to make programmes while advertiser funded broadcasters make programmes to acquire money."

#SteveMaharey, 2019

https://www.pundit.co.nz/content/tvnz-and-rnz-a-future-for-public-broadcasting

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