Peter Allan Williams Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week peterallanwilliams.substack.com The Media Insider column on the New Zealand Herald website each week is a column, funnily enough, about the media.
From a reader: I don’t often go to the Herald, but their journalistic standards seem even worse than those of Stuff – which I doubted was possible. This one article has so many basic errors. Did the constable’s head really “stumble several feet” and if so, how did it
Stuff gets brought and “bought” confused. No one paid for her Stuff. 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
Claire Trevett, if her article in the Weekend Herald is anything to go by, seems to think Labour are still in the game. I hate to give her the bad news re Chippie, but the chips are down and the man and his party are gone-burgers. She says the days
When Amanda Luxon gets gifted thousands in public money in 2024 to create a reality TV show which will be shown on NZ’s taxpayer-funded TV in prime time, the media will avert their gaze and pretend there is “nothing to see here”: like they did when Clarke Gayford was
Every year, our Atheist media keep pushing for shops to be open at Easter. If you enjoyed this article 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
If a shitty, woke, “cartoonist” boycotts an award they’re never going to win anyway, does anyone even notice? Over the last few days, a bunch of lefty cartoonists have made a big song and dance of boycotting the Walkleys. Did you hear them? They’re boycotting! That’s right,
Gobbledegook as usual from Stuff. 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
The Dems really blew it when they shafted Tulsi Gabbard. Instead of a senile, corrupt, Deep State puppet, they could have had a feisty centrist, a serving veteran with first-hand experience of the reality of war, and an “anti-interventionist” “populist”. Oh, wait. Of course she never had a chance in
Six long years and they still can’t spell her surname correctly… 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
Michael Bassett Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former Minister in the 1984-1990 governments bassettbrashandhide.com This election campaign has degenerated into a media circus with endless trivial claims and counterclaims, many of them driven
Oh dear. The Project host Kanoa Lloyd accidentally sparked fits of laughter on Tuesday when she messed up her pronunciation of “chocolate box” when talking about Roses chocolates. The segment was supposed to be a light-hearted piece about the return of some old Cadbury favourites, but Lloyd got a little
I know the horrid gets spelling and words wrong but how on earth do you get the spelling in a picture wrong? 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
Stuff must still be waiting for the advice on what to do… Or maybe the helpline doesn’t know. Or maybe the missing full stop is the problem. If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If
