1Brian Priestly offers a critical analysis of some of the recent issues in the New Zealand media: including; 1. The National Business Review (NBR) becoming a weekly publication 2. The television programme That's Fairly Interesting 3, Media coverage of the AIDS epidemic 4. Television New Zealand's (TVNZ) coverage of a road fatality 5. Media coverage of the Ministry of Works' (MOW) report on the regions 6. The New Zealand Listener's coverage of the Ministry of Works' (MOW) report on the regions 7. The news media's coverage of poverty