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[The Good Oil] Stuff Up of the Day
Check out the latest media stuff ups both locally and around the world.
Media
Japan Rides the Censorship Bandwagon
Freedom of expression is a matter much more significant than words.
Blood on Their Pens
Until mainstream media confront their role in this ecosystem of incitement, the bloodshed will continue – and so too will their culpability.
This Is a Pathetic Attempt
Here are five actual fashion disasters sitting in our House of Representatives that no one in the media has the balls to criticise.
Budget 2025: RNZ Gets a Trim, But the Media Gravy Train Keeps Chugging
This budget move should serve as a warning shot to every media outlet suckling at the government’s teat. You’re on notice: do your damn job. Report the facts, not your feelings.
Face of the Day
TVNZ’s board had “complete confidence in Linda’s professional judgment and capabilities” but a “potential for a conflict” existed.
An Influence They Never Had Can’t ‘Decline’
Mainstream media telling themselves comforting lies again.
The Guilty Leftist
Suddenly the truth was blindingly obvious. The left doesn’t care about women.
Brooke van Velden’s Four-Letter Bomb Exposes the Left’s Hypocrisy and Policy Vacuum
In the end, van Velden’s word wasn’t the scandal. The real scandal is a left so intellectually bankrupt they’d rather debate diction than policy. They’ve lost the plot and, thanks to van Velden’s deft move, everyone can see it.
BBC Fangirls for Hamas Goons... Again
The ‘respected photojournalist’ who was a Hamas propagandist.
Ian Taylor’s Pay Equity Whinge: A Masterclass in Missing the Point
The pay equity debate didn’t sink because of one word. It sank because the left have nothing else to offer. And you, Ian Taylor, are too busy polishing their shoes to see it.
The Climate War Has to Be Stopped
At the heart of it is deception, distortion, and delusion which prey upon people and are as big an existential threat as there is. And the Phony Climate War is an example of it.
All Misogyny Is Bad - Except Ours
A commentary on media double standards in a time of selective outrage.
Brooke van Velden’s C-Bomb Shakes Up Parliament While the Usual Suspects Clutch Their Pearls
The lesson here? If the legacy media wants to sling slurs and gendered insults, they’d better be ready for the blowback. And if they’re going to cry foul when someone like van Velden fights back, they might want to take a long, hard, look in the mirror.