Can you imagine a New Zealand in which independent media is gone and all that remains is a small group of large media organisations muzzled by funding from the government? It’s not some faraway dystopia. It is already happening. With the rapid corporate consolidation of traditional news outlets and
We’ve been saying it for a very long time: the New Zealand mainstream media are utterly corrupted by government design, subsidies, grants and loans. There can be no denying the total and complete subjugation of our media by a government that is captured and beholden to Maori and Socialist
Tim Graham newsbusters.org 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. When someone wants to complain about how our most
Stuff doesn’t seem to know the difference between “water” and “wastewater”, just as it can’t differentiate between “news” and “propaganda”. 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
There’s a reason my First Law of the Media is: Never Believe a Headline. Don’t just skim a legacy media headline and lede and think you’ve got the truth. Always read the whole article, because, too often, the headline is starkly opposite to what the article is
You will see from the information below that the Government is paying the salaries of MSM Editors so that the Media organisations themselves do not have to fund the positions themselves from their own revenue. This means that the minute the Government stops the funding the Editors will lose their
Two years ago a website was set up to measure media bias in New Zealand. Both Kiwiblog and The BFD were mentioned and rated, as were left-wing blogs and all mainstream media. Back then Newshub was rated as the most biased (towards the left) of all the mainstream media. The
Ignacio Arechaga mercatornet.com Ignacio Arechaga is a Spanish journalist and blogger. Next week the World Health Organization may declare that the recent monkeypox outbreak is a public health emergency of international concern – the highest level of global alert. At the moment, only polio and Covid-19 are in this category.
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The BFD is 95% powered by member dollars and the remaining 5% comes from ad revenue. The Spinoff doesn’t have genuine subscriptions because all their content is free to read. Take a look at the true source of their funding. Hint, it is not their readership. Last year The
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
Global Theatre and a Thousand Words Henrik Ibsen is one of the founders of modernism in the theatre, e.g. Peer Gynt. He is regarded as the “father of realism”, and if you have read many of my columns, you can understand why I am such a fan. Another playwright
Information Opinion So the true position is finally being revealed. The economy started to turn downwards at the beginning of the year. This is a ‘surprise’ to RNZ and a ‘puzzle’ to Stuff, but it is no surprise to most of us. We have been in a decline for months…
Information Opinion Jacinda Ardern is as thick as two planks when it comes to good management and overall has no ability to make a sound executive decision. Things will never come right for ‘Crazy Cindy’s’ ministry until Mahuta is moved on from local government. Change is needed at Health
The NZ Herald sports writer obviously thinks the Warriors keep their money in a cup. 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
The Ardern government is determined to keep a dying industry afloat. But an unflinchingly loyal industry. Its “Public Interest Journalism Fund” is somewhat akin to a government of the 1900s pouring money into the horse and buggy industry, in return for plastering election posters on the horses’ arses. Some of
