nz's slipping main-stream media

The media are doing such a good job of kicking sand in their own faces. They seem determined to undermine their own credibilty. Its just bizzare

Jessica sees the writing on the wall now Liebour and the team of $55million are gone, spits the dummy as political editor for TVNZ.
Must be tough being a died in the wool communist journo with our current govt.

So Tova went woke and went broke, now Jessica spits the dummy. I can see a pub quiz question, "Who coined the phrase, Jessica first, then Tova"?

Choice of new gig is interesting though, to say the least:

NZME reported that Mutch McKay’s new role will be at ANZ Bank as the head of government relations and corporate responsibility.

www.stuff.co.nz/national/133517610/tvnz-political-editor-jessica-mutch-mckay-leaves-network-after-15-years

from the comments below karl's story

Campbell laments so many reversals of actions of the previous government

while ignoring that government was never elected to enact such policies

– discarding, ignoring and reversing them is exactly why the new government was elected.

He knows it and is just bitter that a clear majority of New Zealanders want what is happening and want what more is to come - more power to the people

It will be interesting to see how big the texas movement becomes..

Organizers with “Take Our Border Back” say they want to stand up to “globalists” who they believe are conspiring to let migrants illegally flood the country.

nypost.com/2024/01/27/news/convoy-claiming-to-be-gods-army-heading-to-texas-to-protest-border-crisis/

This story is jaw-dropping.
Stuff criticising Chris Hipkins for doing an interview with Sean Plunket on the platform.
Serious.
How threatened and petty are Stuffed sounding?

www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350187936/why-would-chris-hipkins-join-sean-plunket-platform

Sounded like Sean did a good interview, here are some exerts:
While mostly cordial, there was a bit of back and forth when Plunket suggested the Labour party was too “woke” for middle New Zealand and that the Labour Government “tended to cancel and de-platform people” and was “far from tolerant of people ideologically different from it”. Both claims Hipkins denied.

Following the interview, Plunket said “I know the labour party cancelled people and bureaucracy cancelled people, because they tried to cancel me ... So when he says, ‘we didn’t do that, we’ve always been open and inclusive’, I say bullshit”.

pretending middle-nz doesn't exist

and its views aren't relevant for nz's future

hasn't worked too well for labour

so now they're in opposition

they'll pretend to engage, listen etc

but just like jacinda

when given the power

they'll secretly advance their hidden agenda  

and flip the finger to the middle ground that foolishly gave them another chance

a long and thought provoking article from Karl focusing on John Campbell (and other MSM wallies) bias
karldufresne.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-case-for-objectivity-in-journalism.html
excerpt
But at least Rose disclosed his bias. And to be fair, once he gets past his apparent antipathy towards me, he presents a balanced picture of the issues and takes the trouble to present my arguments fairly and accurately. Most importantly, he has helped kick-start an overdue debate about the value of objectivity in journalism, which can only be good.
What's striking about Rose's piece is that several of the people he approached for comment about Campbell – people I might have assumed to be on the broadcaster’s side – voiced misgivings about the increasingly blurred line between fact and opinion in journalism.
Former RNZ chief executive Peter Cavanagh, for example, is described as being concerned by the trend to publish more comment masquerading as impartial news coverage. “Removing objectivity from journalism is a very dangerous trend in an increasingly complex world,” Cavanagh is quoted as saying. “I have no doubt that it’s the blurring of the lines between fact and opinion that is driving the growing distrust many now have of mainstream media.”
This is no crusty reactionary speaking. Cavanagh ran a left-leaning RNZ and previously served as head of news and current affairs for Australia’s impeccably woke SBS.
Rose also quotes his former RNZ Mediawatch colleague Colin Peacock, who says Campbell’s November 25 column savaging the new government “does kind of cross a line for me”. He accurately describes the column as “very condemnatory and very personal – the sort of thing you might see in Metro magazine rather than in the opinion and analysis section of a publicly owned broadcaster”.

Hope Melissa Lee takes some notice of this column. Best thing the government could do is sell off or close down state owned broadcasting. There is no need for it now given the plethora of media outlets from all sides of the political spectrum. There cannot continue to be any justification for continuing state owned media in NZ (and elsewhere) on the basis it is "unbiased", given the total and unashamed left wing bias shown by TVNZ, RNZ, ABC, SBS and BBC (to name a few) in recent decades 
I remember growing up in the the days of the 1 - 2 channel(s) NZBC  with the likes of Philip Sherry and Dougal Stephenson reading the news in a very professional fashion. Will never forget in 1979 the break in on whatever programme was on with Stephenson somberly announcing that Flt 901 was overdue and a couple of hours later a further announcement that they could no longer be airborne as fuel reserves would have been exhausted. As most know the wreckage was found the following morning.

Sadly this appears to be Karl's final column for the foreseeable future, he closes his piece writing
Footnote: This is my last post, at least for the foreseeable future. I am placing my blog in indefinite recess. This has nothing to do with John Campbell or any other issue that I’ve written about. The truth is that after coming back from a recent holiday with family in Queensland, I realised that my heart’s no longer in it. This doesn’t mean I don’t feel as strongly about the issues I write about; rather, it’s the act of writing that I can no longer muster the energy for. Fortunately there’s now no shortage of other conservative (or should I say crypto-fascist?) bloggers, such as Graham Adams, to take up any slack.