Graham Adams Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Graham Adams is a journalist, columnist and reviewer who has written for many of the country’s media outlets including Metro, North & South, Noted, The Spinoff and Newsroom The question of whether National made the right choice last
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’
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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. This year The BFD copped a second 30-day ban on Facebook. Our first one was for
Despite what you are continually told, Donald Trump’s presidency was a string of policy successes. If you’re inclined to scoff at that assertion, well, that’s almost certainly due to perhaps the Donald’s greatest success: he single-handedly broke the mainstream media. By November 2016, the mainstream
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The old saying that “the camera never lies” was always debatable: photographic trickery has been around since at least 1839, when Hippolyte Bayard faked a photo of his supposedly drowned corpse. The advent of Photoshop and other software has made the truthfulness of the photographic image even more suspect. But
The Hunter Biden laptop saga is the biggest stain on an already-long-blackened mainstream media. The mainstream media and Big Tech, along with the US Deep State, blatantly lied and deliberately colluded to bury a story that would almost certainly have changed the course of the 2020 presidential election.
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
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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. This year a Youtuber in New Zealand lost his job after a concerted effort by activists including Maori Party co-leader
So we Kiwi’s go into our summer break and holiday season with a government and their army of uni based scientific advisers pushing rules and regulations that have no basis in common sense.
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The Ponderer Apparently, the Selwyn district has the highest vaccination rate in the entire country. In her October email update, the local MP Nicola Grigg proudly proclaimed that Selwyn had a 95% first-dose vaccination rate as of October 26. Star News claimed 97% on 29 October. The NZ Herald
covidplanb.co.nz A feature of the covid-19 pandemic has been the relentless highlighting of cases, hospitalisations and deaths of covid-19 with very little context to help interpret the statistics. No matter what the mitigating factors, the story of a deathly and fearful virus is maintained by authorities,
