Peter Allan Williams Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.realitycheck.radio three days a week peterallanwilliams.substack.com In an industry never afraid to report on itself it’s no surprise that this Sunday’s (taxpayer funded) Q and
Willie Jackson, who regularly engages his mouth before his brain, has called Broadcasting Minister Melissa Lee “stupid”. He is making out that Melissa Lee has no idea of how to save the media, while he has all the answers. Willie Jackson, the Labour Party MP who was in charge of
The council says the culling of these rubbish bins will save 9 million dollars a year. Really? They are more than happy to ignore what has always been a Council core service, and spend so much of our hard-earned rates on such things as those extremely expensive rainbow pedestrian
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By way of antidote, perhaps, to the recent spate of Jeremiads railing against Jacinda Ardern in the pages of The Australian, both that publication and fellow Aussie conservative masthead, Quadrant, have published equal-and-opposite hagiographies of Luxon and Co. They might furnish BFD readers with a scoffing chuckle or
Rosemary Abbott whakatakitimes.nz GENIUS STUFF In a bold move to tackle plummeting ratings and revenue, the brains trust at TVNZ has announced its decision to axe one of its longest-running and most beloved shows, Fair Go, along with the midday and late-night news bulletins. The announcement comes
bobmccoskrie.com Media Trust Scorecard is ‘F’ For Fake News or Fail or (no) Future … A new report measures how much Kiwis trust the news media, and it has plummeted to a new low. It should actually be a wake-up call to the media if they want to avoid
Remember Shaneel Lal whining to media that he feared for his life before the arrival of Kellie-Jay Keen for an Auckland Let Women Speak rally? Lal lied – he didn’t actually fear for his life – what he refused to admit was the very real threat that real women pose
Bryce Edwards I am Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington, where I run the Democracy Project, and am a full-time researcher in the School of Government democracyproject.substack.com The media is in crisis, as New Zealand audiences flee from traditional sources of news and information.
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As I’ve repeatedly warned BFD readers, always assume that a so-called “fact-checker” is trying to mislead you. But, if it’s bad enough that professional, often taxpayer-funded, liars in cahoots with the mainstream media are bullshitting you, it’s far worse when a statutory body is
As predicted the media are blaming everyone else for the massive drop in trust. Dita de Boni, who works for NBR, thinks it is a shadowy right-wing think tank destroying trust, and the NZ Herald is blaming AI and misinformation: The media landscape has changed rapidly in the past
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You wouldn’t let Bernie Madoff teach your kids about business ethics. You wouldn’t let Gary Glitter teach them about personal safety. So, why would you let the mainstream media teach them about “the harms of online misinformation and disinformation”? Bryce Corbett […] formerly a journalist for 60 Minutes, the
