Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The colourful history of National Business Review has finally ended after 50 years. It hung on a year longer than I predicted with sales at the end less than a tenth of its heyday, thus suffering the fate of all print media. Three decades back
They say “He who pays the piper calls the tune” but let’s face it, long before the piper was paid out with a Covid grant to media, the New Zealand MSM was already well and truly providing supportive propaganda for this government and avoiding the difficult questions. It’s
Labour Party list Henry Cooke (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern rebrands the post-coronavirus Labour Party with her first real party list Jamie Ensor and Lydia Lewis (Newshub): Dr Ayesha Verrall’s experience could prove ‘helpful’ to Labour post-COVID-19 – commentator Hannah Kronast (Newshub): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern defends Labour’s
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Colonial statues, place names, Black Lives Matter Cherie Howie (Herald): Race relations commissioner Meng Foon calls for dialogue on colonisation-linked statues, place names Jason Walls (Herald): NZ First Leader Winston Peters: Getting rid of historical statues ‘idiocy’ 1News: Winston Peters outraged over ‘idiocy’ of ‘wokeism’ amid statue removal Mark
So now Google has officially DELETED Churchill but kept Hitler and Stalin. Let that sink in. pic.twitter.com/qn6llQpUKX — Avi Yemini ???? (@OzraeliAvi) June 14, 2020
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Data visualisations – “graphs”, to the unitiated – have been an incredibly useful tool for cutting through the fog of bias and misunderstanding to get at the facts. One of the most famous early data visualisations was John Snow’s graph plotting every case in the infamous Broad Street cholera outbreak of
Fox News is getting more left-wing by the day. I don’t know if their wording is a stuff up or if they are seriously suggesting that it was the poor cop’s fault that his skull was fractured by a brick! If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up
Students at St Andrews College in Christchurch and Marist College in Auckland put up Black Lives Matter posters which were promptly ripped down by the authorities. The students were furious and went straight to media claiming systemic racism. From a student at Marist College in Auckland: “We’ve had a
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How do you know that the legacy media are lying about President Donald Trump? They’re talking about him. It’s got to the stage where nothing at all the legacy media say about President Trump should be believed. If CNN reported that Trump was alive, I’d check the
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Election, cannabis referendum Jack Vowles (The Conversation): An election like no other: with 100 days to go, can Jacinda Ardern maintain her extraordinary popularity? Henry Cooke (Stuff): 100 days to go: How parties want to win Election 2020 Claire Trevett (Herald): Election 2020: 99 days out how are Act, the
