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The Culture Clash at the Heart of the TVNZ-RNZ Merger

The Culture Clash at the Heart of the TVNZ-RNZ Merger

Peter Thompson Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Peter joined the Media Studies Programme at Victoria University of Wellington in 2011. He came to New Zealand in 1997, and lectured at Unitec Institute of Technology in Auckland, where he helped establish the postgraduate programmes in international communication. The 980

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Our Readers Enjoy Champagne on a Beer Budget

Our Readers Enjoy Champagne on a Beer Budget

Last year Stuff reported on the extent of media bludging from government troughs. It is eye-watering just how much taxpayer coin some media organisations have availed themselves of. Media companies large and small claimed funding from the Government’s media package last year. In April 2020, Broadcasting, Communications and Media

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Why I Take MSM Coverage of Populism with a Grain of Salt

Why I Take MSM Coverage of Populism with a Grain of Salt

David Thunder mercatornet.com David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society. There was a time when journalists from respected media outlets like the BBC, the New York Times and the Guardian, at least made a sincere effort to distinguish

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Twice the Macron to make a point? 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 click

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Raise Your Glasses to the BFD

Last year Stuff reported on the extent of media bludging from government troughs. It is eye-watering just how much taxpayer coin some media organisations have availed themselves of. Media companies large and small claimed funding from the Government’s media package last year. In April 2020, Broadcasting, Communications and Media

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Ardern waging war on free speech

Ardern Waging War on Free Speech

While our media waxed lyrical at Jacinda Ardern’s awful speech to the United Nations, the rest of the world is showing increasing alarm at Ardern’s waging war on free speech. It can’t be honestly described as anything other than an attack on free speech. Neil Oliver knows

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Stuff can’t even get a direct quote right!! 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

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Propping up The  Propaganda Press

Propping up The Propaganda Press

Public Interest Journalism Propaganda has received an $18m boost with the announcement of funding for an additional 110 journalists across New Zealand with “a specific mandate to produce stories that keep New Zealanders informed and engaged, and support a healthy democracy”. Don’t you just love the Newspeak? War is

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Auckland Mayoralty a Media-Fixed Handicap Race

Ted Johnston BSc BA LLB Co-leader New Conservative. The news coverage of the Auckland mayoralty in the last 1 or 2 weeks prior to the election, only features the two news media appointed and anointed  ‘favourites’. The news media has winnowed down the number to force a 2 horse race,

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Dilbert Cancelled after Satirising Woke Culture

Dilbert Cancelled after Satirising Woke Culture

Jean Seah mercatornet.com Jean Seah is a social media manager, freelance writer, managing editor of The Daily Declaration and associate editor of MercatorNet. After growing up in Singapore, reading law in Brisbane, running off to a convent in Perth, imbibing liberal arts in Sydney and a brief sojourn in

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Does Govt Funding of Journalism Support a Healthy Democracy?

Does Govt Funding of Journalism Support a Healthy Democracy?

Public Interest Journalism Propaganda has received an $18m boost with the announcement of funding for an additional 110 journalists across New Zealand with “a specific mandate to produce stories that keep New Zealanders informed and engaged, and support a healthy democracy”. Don’t you just love the Newspeak? War is

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Pumping up the Polls

Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio, TV and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

NZ Herald quiz: written by the same bozos who set NCEA exams perhaps? 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

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The BFD Has a Beer Budget but Our Readers Have Champagne Tastes

Last year Stuff reported on the extent of media bludging from government troughs. It is eye-watering just how much taxpayer coin some media organisations have availed themselves of. Media companies large and small claimed funding from the Government’s media package last year. In April 2020, Broadcasting, Communications and Media

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No Filters. No Spin.

One of the things that The BFD offers you that the MSM does not is unfiltered, unspun Political news straight from the horse’s mouth. 1. Political Party Press releases: The MSM re-write them and only publish the bits they want their audience to read. They filter the content and

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Journalists Too Frightened to Tell the Truth

Journalists Too Frightened to Tell the Truth

Alex Hills   Free Assange NZ + Candles 4 Assange The ‘Assange precedent’ means state powers will be able to rip foreign journalists from their country to silence them, and as a result, journalists have become too frightened to tell the truth. Thousands of people have now pledged to surround the British

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