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Merja Myllylahti Auckland University of Technology theconversation.com According to a recent survey by the News Media Association, 90% of editors in the United Kingdom “believe that Google and Meta pose an existential threat to journalism”. Why the pessimism? Because being in the news business but relying on social media
Lyn F A long-standing Australian client, a man in his mid-70s and of British origin, sent me a Crikey article published in Australia this week. As I read it, I became increasingly angry. I checked out the author and then understood her aim with this piece of propaganda.
Peter Thompson Victoria University of Wellington theconversation.com Winston Peters had only just been sworn in as deputy prime minister when his long-standing antipathy to the news media emerged in the form of a serious accusation. Referring to the Public Interest Journalism Fund (PIJF) set up under the previous
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Seeing as Wellington is cursed with a drunken mayor and the natural habitat for a useless gaggle of Greens incapable of serving anyone but themselves, why not move the political centre of the country to Auckland? Media can do whatever they want, follow the politicians or not. They are largely
Graham Adams Graham Adams is a freelance editor, journalist and columnist. He lives on Auckland’s North Shore. This article was first published at The Platform bassettbrashandhide.com No one is going to die wondering how some of the nation’s most influential journalists personally view the new National-led
This is my message to you gravy-train Maori Elitists; your days of hoodwinking the everyday Kiwi are over. A massive majority of us have had enough of your bullying and voted to have your manipulative, dishonest grab of New Zealand and its assets stopped. Yes, your arrogance and deceitful
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So, Australia’s taxpayer-funded national broadcaster is running Hamas propaganda campaigns, now? Because that’s the upshot of the featured story on the ABC today, which is wall-to-wall hand-wringing over terrorists getting their just desserts and tendentious justification for Hamas’ murderous rule. And, of course, lots
It’s been an interesting, and worthwhile-watching, week so far – with the entertainment provided by Mr Scab-Ripper-in-Chief Peters turning the tables, so to speak, in holding media to account, a highlight. They don’t like it up ’em, do they Captain Mainwaring? To see the industry
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From the moment the new government was sworn in, the news media have been floundering, They have been thrashing around, having taken the bait laid for them by none other than their long-standing nemesis, Winston Peters. Winston, playing a part equivalent to the artful dodger (a crafty person behaving
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cfact.org The biggest purveyors of “misinformation” and “disinformation” in America today are those who profess to be journalists, especially when it comes to “reporting” on climate issues. It would be understandable to counter this by saying, rather, that it is politicians and their appointees who are the ones conveying
Even in the death throes of their fibs, still the lying goes on, and on, just as a fly dying in a trap manages a defiant buzz or three. Bzzzzzzzz, writes Glenn McConnell on Stuff yesterday morning, bzzzzzzzz, it wasn’t a bribe: “baseless claims”, bzzzzzzzz, “false allegations”. “As part
