Media
Don’t Go Believing Your Own Lyin’ Eyes
What do you do if you are a news organisation that has signed up to the PIJF (Public Interest Journalism Fund) and some bad news comes along about those in the Labour Government that you signed up to, that might seriously affect their chances at the upcoming election? Well, why
Electric Vehicles Will Not Save the World
The industry has calculated the minus and plus factors of electric vehicles relating to no carbon emissions and other greenhouse gases from manufacture through to their end of life. Any user of an electric vehicle as a means to save the earth, has entered a very expensive exercise in futility.
The BFD Stuff Up of the Day
“dent the car’s windows” Must be a special kind of glass… If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your
The BFD Stuff Up of the Day
Same colour, same page, and two ways to spell it. Well done, NZ Herald. If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to
The BFD Stuff Up of the Day
As usual, Stuff knows 4/5 of 5/8 of Stuff-all when it comes to fractions vs frictions. And this is the same outfit that gleefully pointed out at least twice in an article, that ACT had misspelt the name of Parmjeet Parmar – not the easiest name to spell – in
The BFD Stuff Up of the Day
Stuff gets it wrong again. It’s Brigham Creek Road. If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading experience
A Safe Haven or Big Brother?
Janet Wilson commonroomnz.com Janet Wilson is a freelance journalist and communications consultant. This article was first published at The Common Room In George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, the citizens of Oceania are watched everywhere they go through telescreens by the ruling Party’s omniscient leader Big Brother. To
Credit Where Credit Is Due
Yesterday I was awoken by many people messaging me about Nicky Hager getting an ONZM in the King’s Birthday Honours. They were wondering how I felt about that, asking whether or not I was outraged. My answer to them all left them bewildered and astonished. You see, I wished
The BFD Stuff Up of the Day
Apparently all copies were destroyed 13 years ago. If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading experience more enjoyable
Don’t Trust the ‘Jolly’ Pundits
Tim Graham Tim Graham is executive editor of NewsBusters and host of the NewsBusters Podcast. His career at the MRC began in February 1989 as associate editor of MediaWatch, the monthly newsletter of the MRC before the internet era. newsbusters.org Liberals can be really hateful people on television, and
After Tiananmen: Quotes from the US Media
Rich Noyes Rich Noyes was research director at the Media Research Center from 2003 to 2021. Previously, he directed the MRC’s Free Market Project (1999 to 2003) and served as Director of Media Analysis for the MRC (2001 to 2003). From 1987 to 1999, he was Political Studies Director
Can the Media Be Independent? Not Really
Vincent Geloso Vincent Geloso, senior fellow at AIER, is an assistant professor of economics at George Mason University. He obtained a PhD in Economic History from the London School of Economics. aier.org A small scandal has raised ire on social media after Twitter added the mention of “publicly funded
Oh, So Now You’re Concerned?
After playing at being propagandists and Ardern’s little cheerleaders as she stomped all over our rights during Covid and after taking massive bribes in the form of funding from the Public Interest Journalism Fund, the legacy media are now all of a sudden concerned at the Government’s over-reach