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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The landscape for conservative media is getting darker and darker. The BFD is faced with competitors that are hock deep in Government funded troughs and social media giants that stifle freedom of expression. Last year The BFD copped a second 30-day ban on Facebook. Our first one was for posting
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com An RNZ headline reads: High rate of suicide in pregnant and post-natal women “Suicide is the leading cause of death during pregnancy and the postnatal period, and Maori women are three times more likely to die this way, a new report has found.” That’s
Call me a cynic, but when I see the Te Maramatanga, Fact-checked posts on public health and wellbeing, The Whole Truth, on Stuff, my immediate reaction is to do more research of my own; the very action the public is being asked not to do in this pseudo-medical once-over-lightly column,
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
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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
Last month Buzzfeed News announced that it was cutting jobs in a move described by its staff as “gutting” their newsroom. As a result of the staff cuts, three of their editors resigned. A few weeks after Buzzfeed’s announcement, the parent company for The Intercept revealed that 20 of
Karl du Fresne karldufresne.blogspot.com Warning Long read: 4795 words I delivered the following speech (little of which would be new to regular readers of this blog) at a meeting of the Free Speech Union at Victoria University last night. Most of the approximately 80 people who attended were
The legacy media desperately need their dwindling audiences to be locked into a constant cycle of confected outrage. There’s nothing exactly new about media beat-ups, of course. What’s new, in the clickbait age, is the frenzied intensity. The legacy media are increasingly locked into the tiniest world imaginable
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Cancel culture makes people and organisations vulnerable. Activists go after organisations’ ad revenue by complaining to their advertisers. They go after individual’s jobs by complaining to their employers. Last year a Youtuber in New Zealand lost his job after a concerted effort by activists including Maori Party co-leader Debbie
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Isn’t it funny how Covid ended? Talk about not with a bang, but a whimper. Australian governments at all levels have been quietly dismantling their onerous Covid restrictions and mandates. Even the Hermit King of Western Australia and the Dictator of Dandrewstan have almost stealthily wound back some of
The findings on trust in media organisations is out and the left-wing dominated media have taken a flogging. It seems that the public is well attuned to their lying ways and are voting with their feet. Newsroom reports: Less than half the New Zealand public now professes ‘overall trust’ in
