Media
Quick Hit – BSA Scrapped: Coalition Kills Regulator After It Tried to Muzzle the Platform
The Platform case exposed how the 1989 act was being stretched to capture internet livestreaming. Removing the BSA reduces the compliance burden on independent outlets and shifts power back to audiences rather than bureaucrats.
Face of the Day
“... we could try and extend the brief of BSA far into sort of social media, or we could say, well, actually, why don’t we just rely on the self-regulation that works fine for print journalism and set the sector free” – Media and Communications Minister Paul Goldsmith.
Good News the Media Won’t Tell You
As the media, through their newsrooms and reporters, refuse to do their jobs and report balanced news, we are reliant on contributing writers to ferret out the honesty of what is happening.
Hamlet and the NZ Media
Some journalists recent behaviour, legal threats, hidden stories and an ideologically captured regulator. The state of New Zealand’s media is akin to a Shakespearean tragedy.
The Scarf, the Activist & the Media
A critical analysis: why NZ Herald’s keffiyeh story on Davien Gray is NOT what it seems.
So the Media Lawyers Up
The chilling effect is coming from inside the house. I received a legal letter this week too.
Is This the Age of Substack?
If mainstream media won’t report on their own then others will have to.
The Missing Man They Won’t Name
How New Zealand's law enforcement became an activist agency protecting a fiction, and the media reinforces the deception.
Unreported for Nearly a Year
Inside the press gallery: power, silence, and the accountability gap in New Zealand media.
Media’s Selective Outrage: A Year of Silence on Their Own Homophobic Slur Scandal
New Zealand deserves better than a media class that holds everyone to account except its own members. The cover-up lasted nearly a year. The damage to their credibility will last much longer.
