Face of the Day
Greta Thunberg has been named Time’s 2019 Person of the Year, becoming the youngest ever recipient of the title. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7780825/Greta-Thunberg-named-Times-2019-Person-Year.
Media
Audio: Nash Does Not Impress on the Mike Hosking Breakfast
The conversation starts at 8.10 on the Wednesday 8.00am to 8.15am time slot. It carries on into the 8.15am to 8.30am times slot and a defensive Nash chirps away around the 3.20 mark – followed then by Hosking and Mitchell having good laugh and mocking
Things That Make Me Go Hmm
Have you ever read a media headline and sworn to ourself that it had changed from when you first read it? Our readers yesterday highlighted the BEFORE and AFTER headline for a Stuff article that stated that our PM Jacinda Ardern thought that her daughter didn’t need her. BEFORE:
Stuff Up of the Day
This article on Stuff caught a reader’s eye because they are walking the Kepler in a few weeks.
Fake News Guardian SMEARS PM Morrison
“Fake news” is rarely just making things up and telling straight-out lies. In fact, the most insidious forms of fake news are “misleading use of information to frame an issue or an individual”, especially via misleading headlines and biased or slanted reporting. The Guardian has gone full Fake News
Things That Make Me Go Hmm
What do you think dear readers? Has the media set her up? Have they put a target on her forehead by publishing this, knowing full well how the public would react? Has this been deceptively edited to make it look like she had nothing but complaints about the new service?
A WARNING to Retailers about the latest Australian Women’s Weekly Cover #TurnArdern
The following e-mail was sent out this week to retailers who sell magazines… IMPORTANT NOTE Australian Women’s Weekly Jacinda Ardern Cover You may have been made aware of a group of people making their way in to various retail outlets and turning around copies of the latest Australian
The Name’s Slackjaw. John Slackjaw. Race-baiter with Knot News
Information Satire *With apologies to the creators of Casino Royale* Hello. Mr. White? We need to talk. Who is this? The name’s Slackjaw. John Slackjaw. Race-baiter with Knot News in New Zealand. Who? I’m calling to insult you. Why? Because you’re White, and male, don’t
‘Car Enthusiasts’ Strike AGAIN
The media have coined a new phrase that exPFC wrote about earlier this year. https://thebfd.co.nz/2019/07/boy-racers-are-now-car-enthusiasts/ Clearly all journalists have got the memo as yet again it has been used in a headline. Now religious overtones have been added to
The Dark Age of Political Intrusion: Part One
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com The medieval Dark Ages refers to the thousand year period in history between the fall of the Roman Empire around 500 AD and the beginning of the Renaissance in 1500 AD. It was a time of feudalism and the Crusades, when society turned its back
Stuff Up of the Day
Well… apart from the fact it isn’t called Mt Eden prison (it’s Mt Eden Correctional Facility), and the building in the photo isn’t it, Stuff have got it pretty much right.
Bob Jones on the Cartoon Controversy
Over on Sir Bob Jones’ blog No Punches Pulled Bob gives his take on the current cartoon controversy. Unsurprisingly Bob has come out strongly in Garrick Tremain’s corner and describes him as “a National treasure.” One of this country’s very best cartoonists is Garrick Tremain and for my