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When MSM Shoots Down its Own Credibility

Jeffrey Lord Jeffrey Lord is a Contributing Writer for NewsBusters. Lord is a former White House political director in the Reagan White House and aide to  HUD Secretary Jack Kemp. After graduating from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania he went on to work for the Pennsylvania State Senate

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Kiwis Don’t Use MSM for News

Kiwis Don’t Use MSM for News

The headline to this article will probably surprise very few. For quite some time now the news media in this country have decided that they are not interested in providing or presenting news in a way that is digestible for the majority of Kiwis. Their aim is to polarise the

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A Legacy Media Person Who Gets It

A Legacy Media Person Who Gets It

Heather du Plessis-Allan is the only legacy media person who seems to get what it was that Winston Peters was trying to say, even as those around her were losing their collective minds. There is a saying on the internet known as Godwin’s law. Basically everyone misquotes it. The

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Hey Stuff – words fail me, just as much as they do you. If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your

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Austism and Social Acceptance in NZ

Austism and Social Acceptance in NZ

[…] An international study released today shows only one in five autistic New Zealanders feel accepted by the people around them. Autism advocates say stigma is common, and workplaces have a long way to go to accommodate people with autism. When Joanne Dacombe told her workplace she was autistic, she said

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Gratuitous hyphen-ation If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading experience more enjoyable click here to browse our Membership

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The End of Long-Form Current Affairs

The End of Long-Form Current Affairs

Sarah Baker Associate Professor, Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology The imminent demise of TVNZ’s Sunday program demonstrates the TV current affairs genre in New Zealand is on its last legs. The death knell was sounded back in 2015 when TV3 axed its nightly Campbell Live program, but this

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The Unhappy Woke 

The Unhappy Woke 

A study surveyed 5,000 adult participants and found that those who are “woke” are more depressed, have more anxiety and lack happiness. As reported, “Being more anxious and depressed and less happy was more pronounced in” those who consider social justice, believe the Net Zero scam and make a

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

From the NZ Herald. If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading experience more enjoyable click here to browse

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Ad-Free Media? No Such Thing

Ad-Free Media? No Such Thing

Viv Forbes saltbushclub.com Viv Forbes has been listening to the ABC for over 70 years, since the days of Rus Tyson and “Blue Hills”. It was once the only station trusted for news, weather and rural news. But now he has even stopped watching “Landline” because it too has

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Stuff is lucky there aren’t penalties for typos. If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading experience more

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Our Readers Enjoy Champagne on a Beer Budget

Our Readers Enjoy Champagne on a Beer Budget

In 2021 Stuff reported on the extent of media bludging from government troughs. It is eye-watering just how much taxpayer coin some media organisations have availed themselves of. Media companies large and small claimed funding from the Government’s media package last year. In April 2020, Broadcasting, Communications and Media

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Watch Out for the Spin

Watch Out for the Spin

Lyn F Having been an editor for over a decade, including subediting newspapers, I’m astounded at the state of New Zealand’s current mainstream media. Have reporters forgotten the creed of their craft? Are they not taught what true reporting is now? I’m beginning to think not. The

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No, I Don’t Trust the News Either

bobmccoskrie.com In the weekend media coverage of Donald Trump’s “bloodbath” comments and Winston Peter’s “Nazi Germany” comments, they were misrepresented. They weren’t given with appropriate context. And the outrage to both comments has been inconsistent from the media. If the media were consistently calling out both

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

I think you mean 2023, NZ Herald: If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading experience more enjoyable click

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