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Showing posts with label News Media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label News Media. Show all posts
Friday, May 1, 2026

Karl du Fresne: Why the Maiki Sherman-Lloyd Burr incident is a matter of public interest

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A good and respected friend – like me, a former newspaper editor – takes the view that the furore over TVNZ political editor Maiki Sherman’s...
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Sunday, April 12, 2026

John McLean: Pilots of the airwaves

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“Pilot of the Airwaves” is a 1979 single by English singer-songwriter Charlie Dore. The song, which reached #13 on the US Billboard Hot 100,...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2026

JC: A Man After My Own Heart

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Last week I wrote an article on the journalists at Wellington Airport accosting the prime minister following a bad TPU/Curia poll and asking...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Greg Treadwell: 14 community newspapers due to close....

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With 14 community newspapers due to close, too many parts of NZ are becoming ‘news deserts’ When media company NZME proposed the closure of...
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Thursday, July 4, 2024

Kerre Woodham: Where does the media go from here?

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First up today, a suite of announcements around the media. Paul Goldsmith, Minister for Broadcasting, thank heavens, has agreed to progress ...
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Sunday, March 3, 2024

Greg Treadwell: With the end of Newshub.....

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......the slippery slope just got steeper for NZ journalism and democracy If journalism in Western democracies has been on a roller coaster ...
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Monday, February 12, 2024

JC: They Are Playing Foolish Games

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The world is in the throes of two major international conflicts. I do not need to name them. I am writing about a third one: it is domestic....
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Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Karl du Fresne: The John Campbell question

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Once again, state-owned TVNZ has obligingly provided a platform from which its best-known (and no doubt highest-paid) journalist, John Campb...
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Thursday, December 7, 2023

Karl du Fresne: A massive gesture of contempt for the voters

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It’s said that great minds think alike. Unfortunately the same is true, by definition, of conformist minds. As an example, take the politica...
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Saturday, December 2, 2023

JC: The Media Take Winston’s Bait

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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 bai...
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Karl du Fresne: What's behind the media’s low-key treatment of the mosque shootings inquest?

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Has anyone else been struck by the extraordinarily low-key media coverage of the inquest into the Christchurch mosque massacres? Day after d...
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Saturday, October 21, 2023

Karl du Fresne: Suddenly, the media are unimportant - and it hurts

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I sometimes wonder whether political reporters ever pause to think how precious and entitled their behaviour looks to outsiders. I doubt it....
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Saturday, September 9, 2023

Karl du Fresne: I defended the media then; I wouldn't now

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In his media column in the New Zealand Herald today, Shayne Currie reports that media organisations are having to think about security arr...
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Saturday, July 22, 2023

Karl du Fresne: The Family First advertisement you didn't see

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Too hot to handle: the Family First ad that six papers refused to publish. Last Wednesday, Family First launched a campaign of resistance ag...
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Friday, February 17, 2023

Karl du Fresne: We have glimpsed the best of New Zealand

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What an extraordinary week. I’m not just talking about the devastation, the tragedy and the heroism, although all that was remarkable enough...
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Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Denis Hall: Marxism and Communism

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I just read an amazing unpublished book - that explained to me in detail how communism and Marxism suppresses people and takes away all free...
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Thursday, May 5, 2022

Don Brash: Free speech - How free should it really be?

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A speech prepared for delivery at Massey University, 5 May 2022 Ladies and gentlemen This was supposed to be the third speech in a series of...
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Monday, April 11, 2022

Karl du Fresne: Break out those Tui billboards

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Well, hello. The latest Edelman Trust Barometer contains possibly the least surprising research findings so far this century. It confirms th...
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Sunday, April 10, 2022

Chris Lynch: Trust in New Zealand news media nose dives, “No strong case for public funding of commercial news content.”

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Trust in news media in New Zealand has fallen “alarmingly” according to a new study from AUT. From 2020-2022, broadcasters TVNZ, Newshub, RN...
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