Internews and the NZ Mainstream Media
Almost the entire ‘media’ industry here have wilfully played along and jumped, gleefully, on the great ‘vetted’, ‘brand-safe’ train, all the while tooting accusations of ‘disinformation’ at those not on board.
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1News Needs a History Lesson
It’s okay. It’s nothing to be too concerned about, that is, for those of us with the inside knowledge that 1News weekend international politics stories are written by their cadet internship of 12-year-olds from local intermediate schools while the grown-up reporters take a break to relax and interview
Is She Actually up to the Job?
I note several social-media political commenters have expressed concern at the appointment of Ms Pania Gray as one of two investigators into the hot-button issue of the voting and census shenanigans surrounding Manurewa Marae. This disquiet is based on a perceived conflict of professional interest between Ms Gray and a
Is This a Smoking Gun?
Yesterday morning Andrea Vance said in The Post that politicians and government agencies (including Police) are tiptoeing around allegations of scandalous and illegal misuse of Stats NZ and Health NZ data at the Manurewa marae in the run-up to last year’s election. Brian Tamaki, not known for his tiptoeing
Welcome to Elections 101
Good morning everybody, and welcome to Elections 101. In today’s exercise, we’ll look at a very close electoral race, very close indeed. So close that after the counting of 25,123 valid returns the winning candidate’s majority was a razor-thin 42 votes. This occurred during the 2023
Breaking All the Rules
It’s an unfortunate sign of the times that public broadcaster RNZ ‘News’ gave significant editorial space for the acting head of a governmental organisation to openly criticise the Government with a politically skewed and misconstrued rant the day after the budget announcements. This was made worse when the individual,
Hands-Down Winner of ‘Utterly Spineless Bigot of the Day’
How disgusting. Hands-down winner of ‘Utterly Spineless Bigot of the Day (and Tomorrow) (and Into Next Week)’ “It doesn’t say anything about being related to Jews”. Of course not, except: “Vogel is owned by a Jewish immigrant”. Just for Mr Hatred’s information ‘Vogel’s’ is owned by GoodmanFielder,
A Little Bit Sitting on the Fence
No, they’re not; Katie. People are not “a little bit sitting on the fence there” in your 1News poll of support, or opposition to, public service job cuts and, no, it’s not a “slim majority” supporting reducing the number of public servants, it’s a very clear majority.
About as Non-partisan as You Can Get
I listened to a Mediawatch bulletin from RNZ and heard the authors of the Trust in Media report exhorting news outlets to carry less opinion, emphasising that the issue of opinion, and the slant of such, was a major, very major, concern to news-consumers and a huge factor in the
Wellington Is Running Out of Rocks
I’m titillated by the term ‘technical recession’ being bandied about the state of the economy. It’s a bit like ‘technical pregnancy’: you either are or are not experiencing one. We are. We’re in a recession and it behoves those with a public voice to speak to that
Like Teasing a Kitten With a Laser
Mr Peters used hyperbole: the N-word. He plays the media using rhetoric exactly as someone teases a kitten with a laser. My, oh my. They are so stupid. The kitten loses interest after five minutes, and the NZ press still can’t get a grip on themselves forty-eight hours later:
Conservatives Should Not Trust Their Lying Ears
It’s all about the language, apparently. And you, me, all the right-wing nut-jobs, just don’t get it. We’re a bit thick. We need to get out more. There are two clear examples from the last couple of days alone which clearly prove those of conservative ilk should
You Could Listen to Your Audience
Despite their best efforts, missionaries to this beautiful group of islands didn’t manage to convince locals they encountered to end several of their more unpleasant cultural practices for many, many years. One of those was the widespread tangihanga (or mourning) custom among women to slash their face and breast
Good Work, if You Can Get It
I have an unhealthy interest in the doings and goings of the great disinformation debate. The disinformation bogeyman dangled about so readily and so often by our politicians and press, as proof, or disproof, of this or that. When in fact what it often boils down to is simple disagreement:
What Would You Like With Your News?
How thick is the collective New Zealand media industry? Thick as a brick? Think tons of bricks. Yes, they’re that stupid. With mainstream news publishing racing downhill fast, like a runaway jalopy, how stupid would you have to be to step on the accelerator – twice? You remember the first
We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know
Less than a week ago the Prime Minister for the Commonwealth of Australia rose in Parliament House, Canberra and said ‘sorry’ twelve times. That’s quite sorry, by any scale of sorriness. He was apologising for the hurt, not just the physical hurt, but the emotional harm, described by one