Once again, the mainstream media are catching up to independents like The BFD. No, I’m not talking about the first rumblings of dissent with Jacinda Ardern (I’ll deal with that in another post): What I’m talking about is the mainstream media finally admitting the unthinkable. Unthinkable for
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The latest Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) figures for our newspapers make grim reading for Stuff. There were no figures last year because of Covid. Overall, what they show is Stuff’s fleet of papers, from Southland to the Waikato, have lost a devastating third
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Last week, the Australian taxpayer-funded broadcaster’s Four Corners program was described as “embarrassing the whole organisation”. “Hold my beer,” says 7.30. Apparently taking lessons in wokeness from across the Tasman, the program will be peppering its reports with Newspeak that almost no one understands nor wants to
The latest 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
We are essentially a lone voice in a sea of left-wing voices. Do you really want us to disappear or would you rather we powered up our voice? Cancel culture makes people and organisations vulnerable. Activists go after organisations’ ad revenue by complaining to their advertisers. They go after
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Surely it’s long overdue for the New Zealand Herald to desist hammering major law firm Russell McVeagh. Six years ago at the firm’s Christmas party, one of their partners over-imbibed and engaged in age-old drunken behaviour, publicly groping some of the
There’s a war on conservatives, the right, call it what you will. This ‘inclusive’ government of rat-bags and no-hopers is waging it presently with propaganda, the way all wars begin. Too stupid, or gutless, or devious to announce their sordid aims they are subtly moving the pieces
Stuff has 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
Free Press ACT Party Last weekend Andrea Vance wrote a bizarre piece for the Sunday Star about what David Seymour thinks. The Sunday Star Times refused to run this response, which is a shame. We think it’s an outstanding defence of liberal democracy, and the inherent dignity each person
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Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. The biggest story of the week was the unusual announcement by Todd Muller that he was not going to stand again for election in 2023,
In an editorial on Stuff over the weekend which Cam has already summed up from one perspective, Ms Wilson has delivered a glowing expose of her own gushing egoism. She’s right about one thing – National does need some change and good on Judith Collins for starting the much-needed
Matthew Ricketson Deakin University Andrew Dodd The University of Melbourne Matthew Ricketson is an academic and journalist. Presently the professor of communication at Deakin University, He was previously inaugural journalism professor at the University of Canberra between 2009 and 2017. Andrew has been a journalist for over twenty-five years,
