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.
It’s an old wartime trope: it’ll all be over before Christmas! But dare we hope that the Ukraine war will be over sooner, rather than later? The legacy media narrative that Vladimir Putin is losing the war is clearly more wishful thinking than hard-headed analysis. Victory may
Dr. Matt Shelton nzdsos.com Warning Long Read. 2288 words. This has been a very hard post to write, but now a few tears have been shed and I can type again. Who knew a non-writer could suffer a creative block? Maybe that makes one a writer after all.
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
DefendNZ www.defendnz.co.nz If you’ve been following #DefendNZ for a while now, you’ll know that late last year we sent an important Official Information Act request (OIA) to the New Zealand Ministry of Health (MOH). This resulted in us publishing an exclusive article titled, ‘MOH says
Stuff is penny-pinching on words again. “Of” must be expensive. 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
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
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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
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
We live in a time of universal deceit. Consequently, telling the truth is a revolutionary act — so revolutionary, it’ll get you immediately banned by Big Brother. Satirical news website Babylon Bee was reportedly suspended from Twitter on Sunday for what the social media platform determined to be “hateful conduct.
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
I should have known better, but we all slip every now and then. In this case, it wasn’t my New Year’s resolution to lose a few kilos and eat healthy foods but rather, despite my vow to avoid, I watched mainstream media (MSM)! Yes, I should have known
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’
Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of
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