Republished with Permission Original article by Nathan Smith at the NZ Initiative As US military strategist John Boyd said about his “OODA loop” theory (observe, orient, decide, act), if one’s orientation is out by just a millimetre, the entire strategy fails. A new site called mediabias.co.nz measures
When someone like left-wing journalist Glenn Greenwald the founder and editor of The Intercept resigns in disgust you know that the news story is as bad as it is big. The second part to the Biden family’s corruption story is the MSMs deliberate silence, cover-up, deflection and/
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Despite the Murdoch Derangement of the “progressive” left, Murdoch papers like The Australian offer a far greater range of opinion than the ABC or The Guardian. Where, for example, is the ABC’s equivalent to droning old communist Phillip Adams’s regular Oz column? Or to strident feminist Nikki Gemmell?
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com On yesterday’s Herald website, under the heading ENTERTAINMENT, is “Gang member who says he beat up R Kelly sentenced over deaths”. Who precisely the Herald thought would be entertained by this isn’t stated. Possibility other gang members but I have a suspicion few
Alexander Hall papundits.wordpress.com Alexander Hall contributes posts at the NewsBusters site, and he is a staff writer for MRC TechWatch. Twitter has “fact-checked” the president’s tweets and put them behind filters before, but now users themselves are blocked from showing their approval. Twitter censored President Donald
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com In a laughably inane article in the Dominion-Post, Paula Tesoriero, who apparently fills a role of Disability Commissioner, wrote, “I want to unpick why people may want to distance themselves from the words “disability” or “disabled”. You see in doing so it suggests there
New Labour Government Thomas Manch (Stuff): A Cabinet to fill: Who will take the top jobs in the new Labour Government? Matthew Hooton (Herald): Jacinda Ardern’s line on the Greens – and the Cabinet Minister she must remove (paywalled) Maori TV: Maori-Labour caucus will get top cabinet jobs – political
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Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Herald Political Reporter Jason Wells wrote this yesterday. “Greens co-leader James Shaw and Marama Davidson emerged from the second round of formal negotiations with Labour this evening. Those talks were progressing well according to Davidson. But neither her, nor Shaw would outline what was…
Another day, another COVID scare story. If the Wuhan plague isn’t going to kill us all, it’s probably going to unleash hordes of giant, mutant bats, or cause Limp Bizkit to reform. Whatever it takes to keep us scared silly and obediently in line, the media will shriek
Jonathan Turley ronpaulinstitute.org This week, former Vice President Joe Biden was again insisting that the scandal involving Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation despite the direct refutation of that claim by the FBI. No mainstream reporter bothered to ask the simple question of whether this was his son’
National Party Claire Trevett (Herald): The case for Judith Collins to make Deputy Shane Reti and put Simon Bridges in finance (paywalled) John Bishop (Stuff): National needs new values to rebuild Henry Cooke (Stuff): Gerry Brownlee’s deputy leadership in trouble ahead of confidence vote Zane Small (Newshub): National MPs
As I wrote in my series on How Not to Be Fooled, one of my iron rules for dealing with the mainstream media is: Never believe a headline. Case in point, this bizarre piece of taradiddle published in the Sydney Morning Herald, claiming that Most Australians love the ABC and
