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ABC Determined to Out-woke NZ Media
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
Do You Trust the BFD?
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
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Flogging a Dead Horse
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
Shaming and Framing the ‘Right’ as ‘Extremists’
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
With Your Help We Can Win a Lopsided Battle
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
Letter to Andrea
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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Todd Muller’s Forced Retirement
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,
Janet Wilson Is Right about National
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
Australia’s Media Industry Shed 5,000 Journalists to Survive
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,
Smiling Zombies
A quiet revolution is happening in New Zealand right under our own noses and, for the most part, we’re just letting it happen. Karl du Fresne explains. In his best-selling 1976 book The Passionless People, the late author and journalist Gordon McLauchlan characterised his fellow New Zealanders as
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