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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I don’t often burst out laughing during the rather dry current affairs show The Nation, but today I did. A rather naive Wayne Brown during recent media time with Newshub made a highly inappropriate, but hilarious, comment while he was ‘miked up’. He called Simon Wilson, who has been
A sneaky and underhand Newshub hit job has given every Aucklander a good reason to vote for Wayne Brown for the Auckland mayoralty. They had their cameras rolling prior to an interview with him, as well as a live microphone, and then proceeded to bait him prior to the interview
