So I hear about this closed door meeting between the Disinformation Project and the mainstream media and I get immediately curious.
It’s odd that a closed door event like this gets circulated and I am curious as to know what the Disinformation Project and the Science Media Centre are telling News Producers and Journalists in the lead up to the 2023 election.
Many news organisations are juggling journalistic values of both sides of the debate with the academics who argue censorship to stop radicalisation.
It leads to the type of journalism like the middle class docudrama ‘Fire + Fury’ which only focuses on the feral qanon antivax fear grifters rather than Trevor Mallard’s actions to explain the violence on Parliament’s Lawns.
So I very much wanted to go and see exactly what it is the academics championing censorship were privately telling mainstream media and corporate news producers, so I applied on the 19th to enrol and go check it out.
I didn’t hear anything all of last week, so followed up this week…
…really?
Booked out?
It went out on the 17th, I applied on the 19th. How could the entire event be booked out in only two days?
If The Daily Blog can’t go to hear what the academics want the mainstream media and corporate news media to censor, then shouldn’t we at least know what corporate media and mainstream media are going so that we know they might be self censoring?
We just learned that the entire NZ mainstream media self censored any coverage of rich white social media influencer wankers while our Government pulled punches on Iran.
Shouldn’t we at least know if the mainstream media and corporate news are self censoring particular opinions in the 2023 election?
We will continue to try and gatecrash this meeting, because elites shouldn’t be able to collude in public without backlash.
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Now now Martyn. You know what Chatham House rules mean you couldn’t break the sacred covenant of the Professional Managerial Class and tell us anything about what is being plotted in these meetings. Surely you wouldn’t do that?
Martyn I get that Mallard did the wrong thing but I think you are overlooking the reality that Trevor did not make these people “feral qanon antivax’ types. Those in that category turned up on the lawn like that.
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This is all part of the WEF agenda. They’re pushing for an Orwellian “Ministry of Truth”, where the government and media work together to take complete control of “the narrative”. Jacinda was openly pushing for this at the UN a month or so ago which lead to this parody video (which I’m surprised is still up tbh, given that “Big Tech” firms like Google are very much at the bidding of “Big Government”, including China, which this satirical video of course is also taking a shot at):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyXXFPP3law
Correct. The only thing we can hope for is a red wave in a couple of weeks time as the US revolts against the “great reset” and “build back better”.
One would expect from such experts to know there is only one Chatham House Rule.
How ironic that the numbers of those interested in attending a meeting on censorship should be restricted.
Censorship is about controlling the narrative. And don’t let anybody suggest that’s not been happening forever or that it’s not happening right now. Nor should we allow those calling for censorship to get away with any crap about it being necessary “in the public interest” – to protect us from “disinformation”. Indeed in the world of ‘black propaganda’ the deliberate posting of outlandish material is one of the very tools used to provoke censorship restrictions being instituted, to clear the field for total control of the narrative.
Instead of censorship, what we need is a commitment to something really radical like; telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. If such a commitment were ever to become our media’s guiding light we would be far better informed and far less divided, and far better equipped to deal with those who would lead us to war. But of course it’s for that very reason that we can’t be allowed to have the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. “Divide and rule” is the only maxim that matters to those who hold the reins and so it permeates every aspect of our lives, and will continue do so for as long as we allow it
Agree with everyone here, alarming and anti freedom of speech. I’ve always voted Labour or Greens every election and not sure I can tick them again.
My biggest worry about Labeen is them creating so many fringe groups with big questions about their appointments, huge powers over others and the secrecy that they then demand.
Too many unexplained ‘bullying’ examples of appointments in NZ, such as the strange case of Joanne Kidman now heading a committee about extremism when she seems to be an example of it, and the bizarre appointment process. https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2022/06/09/why-professor-kidmans-appointment-to-an-academy-of-extremism-is-so-problematic/
Very unusual behaviour when the hiring committee then decides to hire themselves after ‘strange’ leaked reports knock out other people who can’t defend themselves with our MSM not being too worried about media standards.
PM’s terrorism, extremism expert Prof Richard Jackson hired then dropped
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/pms-terrorism-extremism-expert-prof-richard-jackson-hired-then-dropped/VBFWQBOOSKWBZPXTCQUXLPSEUM/
“Kidman and Spoonley were two of four people on the hiring panel put together by the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet that chose Jackson as the preferred candidate. Kidman was appointed for three years and Spoonley for a year as an interim co-director.”
Documents released through the OIA material show Jackson was one of six chosen from an initial field of 28 applicants who interviewed for the role in November.
Kidman and Spoonley helped select Jackson as the preferred candidate from the short-list of six people. The others on the appointment committee were DPMC’s strategic coordinator for counter terrorism in the National Security Group, Andy George, and National Security senior policy adviser Julia Macdonald.
Jackson was invited for a second interview on November 23, the same date the panel and DPMC had decided to shift the role to one with co-directors. The OIA material showed Jackson was told this and agreed to it at the second interview.
Then, on December 17, Kidman expressed an interest in the job herself. She applied on January 20. The DPMC summary of events provided to the Herald said: “Once her application was received, she was immediately removed from the selection panel and played no further part in any selection decisions.”
SIOUXSIE WILES COLUMN ON STUFF.CO.NZ BREACHED MEDIA STANDARDS
An article penned by Siousxie Wiles and published on Stuff.co.nz has been found to have breached media standards.
https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/news/siouxsie-wiles-column-on-stuff-co-nz-breached-media-standards/
Note at least one of the professors has already resigned from this job. This is how woke mobs and media without standards seem to operate in NZ, these days.
Oh well Mart, you’ll just have to follow that time honoured NZ tradition and get some old mate to leak it for you.
Surely Hooten will be going, although he has probably been banned for life by this stage! Be interesting to know if Yvonne van D gets to go or whether her free speech article in North and South has made her PNG with the powers that be.
Perhaps the Free Speech Union will take up the case of you being banned from doing your job – journalism?
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