Media
TV One Needs a Reboot
What should be done with TV One? In my view, the answer is an easy one. You have to look no further than across the ditch to Sky News Australia. In a country with a population of 25.69 million, 42 per cent, 11.1 million watch the channel during
The BFD Stuff Up of the Day
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ABC Omits Key Facts to Protect Its Pal
The leftist echo chamber continues to shill for its own. Just last week, The BFD reported that disgraced former Canberra top prosecutor Shane Drumgold is now teaching law students at Canberra University. Even more galling, the lawyer who was found by two inquiries to have withheld evidence, and knowingly lied
A British Media Cover Up
Steven Tucker Steven Tucker is a UK-based writer with over ten books to his name. His latest is Hitler’s and Stalin’s Misuse of Science, comparing the woke pseudoscience of today to the totalitarian pseudoscience of the past. mercatornet.com Scarlet Blake is a 26-year-old female
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A Cut Above Them
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From the Desk of a Male Pale and Stale
Critics of “diversity, equity, and inclusion programs” (DEI) highlight that determining the realised value of DEI, of preferring staff according to their immutable characteristics e.g., race, sex, or gender, may be biased, complex, and context-dependent. Rarely acknowledged and almost never reported is that DEI initiatives can be costly,
The Power to Manufacture the Truth
Chris Trotter democracyproject.substack.com HISTORICAL PARALLELS between the impact of the printing press and the impact of the Internet are not new. Both inventions almost immediately began to undermine the command and control hierarchies of their respective societies. In the case of the printing press, the reimposition of elite
Why Should We Reward Failure?
Beginning journalism students are warned about the danger of becoming too sympathetic to their sources, thus colouring their objectivity. At worst, journalists are told, they may fall prey to “source capture”: privileging the interests of their sources and pushing a biased narrative. Especially when the source’s interest too-closely
The BFD Stuff Up of the Day
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How to Fix the News Funding Model
Peter Thompson Associate Professor of Media Studies, Victoria University of Wellington The announcement last week that Newshub would be shut down was not the “canary in the coalmine” some suggested – it was the explosion. If it is not to be the first of many, then New Zealand needs a new
One Rule for Him, One for Them
bobmccoskrie.com There have been some sports stories which the media have covered – but they’ve covered them in very different ways. It’s very clear that there’s one rule for some, and another rule for others – depending on who they agree with. TRANSCRIPT: There have been some sports
What Media Bias Looks Like
lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com When news media took a pummeling last week at both TVNZ and TV3, a number of critics said part of the reason ratings are poor is the public don’t trust them. The public believes that the media is biased. The print media is similarly suspect. An
Dying in the Dark? Oh Please!
As delightful as the demise of the media has been, there seems to be a narrative building, especially from those same media people who failed to read the room, that somehow democracy is dying in the dark because media companies are failing. It is as histrionic as it is false.