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How Not to Get Fooled: Picture This [Updated]
Data visualisation is a useful tool which can easily be twisted into fake news.
Media
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[The Good Oil] Stuff Up of the Day
Check out the latest media stuff ups both locally and around the world.
What Privilege Looks Like in 2025
A similar self-centred blindness to real-world interests and concerns seems to permeate the entire Stuff universe. There’s a word for this: privilege.
Open Letter to Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith
I hope you agree that the HRRT’s actions need to be addressed by parliament.
Will Winston Go Right or Left?
Winston does not have the issues he had with National in 2017 and if he can’t finalise a deal with them, then I think Chris Trotter might well be right – the cross benches await.
More Cold Water
Politically, pouring ‘cold water’ onto challenging issues in New Zealand is common place – be it the recent police scandal or instances of foreign interference. It’s time to sustain conversations.
PBS Glamorizes the Underground Network
The story was not entirely unanimous. Out of almost 10 minutes, about a minute was granted to dissent.
How Not to Be Fooled: You Can Quote Me on That
There are rules to quoting: use them to spot media lies.
This Backlash Is Only the Media
Athletes should be free to play and free to say “no thanks” to political messaging without the threat of cancellation hanging over them.
[The Good Oil] Stuff Up of the Day
Check out the latest media stuff ups both locally and around the world.
When Journalism Was Fun
When I accepted a voluntary redundancy deal in 2002, I was able to reflect that I’d come a long way in the 34 years since I’d started in the Post’s reading room. By my calculation it was about 30 metres.
Right vs Left Media Viewers
Just because a media outlet is government-owned, one must not therefore assume it is more trustworthy. Safer to assume the opposite.
The Club That Hid the Epstein Story
New York media heavies of the day included many who might have had reason to sympathize with poor Jeffrey Epstein.
The BBC and MSM Media Crisis
We should not have to put up with biased media. Journalism should be independent, impartial, and balanced. Their mission should be to inform citizens, not manipulate them.
Why Can’t We Talk Like This in 2025?
Dare we not to have these conversations again in person, since people seem to have a remarkable propensity to blank-out the political issues of the 20-50 years before they were born?