NZ media

Stuffed story ruling by Media Council
Decision: The complaint is upheld under Principle 1 for unfairness and lack of balance as a result of the failure to seek comment prior to publication.

thebfd.co.nz/2022/09/15/stuff-where-dishonesty-comes-first-journalism-last/

Well that is pretty much par for the course

ignorance - much

"Our first and only Victoria Cross recipient doesn’t love to talk to media, but days before the funeral of the woman he signed up to serve, he’s made an exception."

www.1news.co.nz/2022/09/18/exclusive-willie-apiata-shares-beautiful-memories-of-the-queen/

Analysis of journalists political views and belief in their roles, from a survey


 no surprises to demonstrate how biased they are.

Interestingly I'm in Leon, Nicaragua and today thought I'd better catch up on some news so I had a quick look at a couple of the MSN back in New Zealand only to find that Stuff is Geo blocking if you try to access it from here. I thought I picked up the same thing when we were in El Salvador and Guatemala but put it down to iffy wifi connections. But here I have very good access to the web.

I wonder what Stuffs geo blocking is all about?

and Israel, I think people are getting sick of the social engineering, government control.

more on Today FM from Karl du Fresne
karldufresne.blogspot.com/2023/03/its-true-then-go-woke-go-broke.html
and maybe more is afoot elsewhere, from Karl
Footnote: RNZ has gone big on the TodayFM saga but has been strangely reticent about another radio story of public interest - namely, the unexplained absence for the past few weeks (unconnected, according to the New Zealand Herald) of two of its most popular hosts, Jim Mora and Karyn Hay. Listeners' curiosity can only have been heightened by the PR smokescreen emanating from the RNZ head office, which seemed calculated to deflect attention from the subject of the paper's inquiries. Whatever the explanation, they are two of RNZ's most likeable presenters and I look forward to their return.

The NZ Mainly Socialist Media is really losing it with Winston climbing into them on the PJIF bride fund. Good read here
thebfd.co.nz/2023/12/01/the-media-take-winstons-bait/
excerpt
It’s long overdue for someone to get stuck into these news journalists who think they are the news makers rather than reporters. If I were them I’d be very reluctant to tangle with Winston. Maori are experts at fishing and there will be a lot more bait on offer. Winston will play them every time and a good filleting could well be the end result. It is obvious these journalists can give it but can’t take it. My advice is to take your slanted verbiage and blabber it somewhere else.

and Karl du Fresne has his say on their behaviour
karldufresne.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-medias-war-on-new-government.html
in full
We are in an extraordinary situation where the mainstream media are openly at war with an elected government. This has never happened before in my lifetime, and to my knowledge never in New Zealand history.

Having adopted a nauseatingly sycophantic approach to the former government, consistently ignoring issues that showed it in a bad light and subjecting it to only the gentlest scrutiny while mercilessly savaging the opposition, the media are now in full-on attack mode.

The level of hostility toward the Luxon-led government is striking. All pretence of balance and neutrality has been abandoned.

The message is clear. The mainstream media are sulking because they think the voters elected the wrong government. They are angry and indignant that despite all their efforts, New Zealand swung right on October 14.

They are wilfully tone-deaf to the public mood because they think they know better. It means nothing to them that the voters had had enough of Labour’s ideological excesses. At best, the high priests of the media (or should I say high priestesses, since the worst offenders are female) are indifferent to democracy; at worst, they resent it because it gives power to the hoi-polloi – the deplorables, to use Hillary Clinton’s word.

In effect, the media are functioning as the opposition. A shattered and demoralised Labour Party has disappeared to lick its wounds, so the press gallery has loyally stepped into the vacuum.

War was declared on the day the coalition’s ministers were sworn in. The tone of the media coverage over the ensuing three days has been relentlessly carping, petty, quarrelsome and negative. We are seeing ministers baited and goaded in a way that never happened under Labour.

The sheer aggression is likely to rattle Luxon and his National ministers, none of whom have previously shown much spine in standing up for themselves against media hit-jobs. They will need to harden up fast.

David Seymour will cope far better and Winston Peters, of course, will revel in the combat. Peters is a graduate of the Robert Muldoon School of Media Relations and a lightning rod for the media's antagonism.

Government ministers and MPs must understand that they don’t need to ingratiate themselves with their press gallery tormentors. They should remind themselves that having been elected, they have a moral legitimacy the media can never enjoy. No one voted for the members of the press gallery and they are accountable to no one.

They are not even well-liked. I suspect that an opinion poll taken today would show that respect for the media has slumped to a new low, which would be quite some achievement. If their purpose is to hasten the mainstream media's descent into irrelevance and ultimate oblivion, they are going about it in exactly the right way.