I’m sorry, what?
Think tank.
Radio New Zealand (RNZ) staff are expected to meet with members of the New Zealand-Ukrainian community this week as calls for a Government inquiry into the state broadcaster mount.
One independent think tank says the edits, which appeared sympathetic towards authoritarian regimes in Russia, China, North Korea, Cuba, and the Middle East, gave “legitimacy to terror”.
Oh, an independent think tank, which one?
The Israel Institute of New Zealand’s co-director Dr David Cumin said the edits made to Reuters and BBC stories “pointed in the direction of a particular anti-Western ideology”.
WTF?
The Israel Institute of New Zealand? That ‘independent’ think tank?
The one led by a man who was also on the Free Speech Union that hypocritically tried to have me cancelled for being ‘antisemitic’???
That fucking ‘independent’ institute really?
Side note – you can’t take the Free Speech Union seriously, it’s all free speech right up until you criticise Israel for their brutal occupation of the Palestinian people, and then suddenly it’s cancel culture tactics to shut you down.
ANYWAY – isn’t it a tad on the fucking nose to be pretending the Israel Institute of New Zealand is ‘independent’ especially seeing as the NZ Herald has been caught out time and time and time again for actually publishing straight out Chinese propaganda?
Chinese version of NZ Herald edited translated stories to be more China-friendly
The Chinese edition of the NZ Herald edited translated articles from the NZ Herald to put a better light on the Chinese government.
It has also omitted articles entirely that discuss the Chinese Government in a negative way, in one case taking a much more sanitised version from a Chinese wire service.
The Chinese NZ Herald is the result of a 2016 joint venture between NZME, which own the NZ Herald, and long-running Chinese publication The Chinese Herald. The website and WeChat channel, which use the NZ Herald branding, feature both translated pieces from the English-language Herald, articles from the Chinese Herald, and stories from other Chinese news sources.
There were editorial oversight issues inside RNZ, pretending that is some great hate crime when the level of pro-Israel, pro-China and pro-America propaganda washes through our corporate mainstream media every single fucking day is just too much hypocrisy for me.
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While I agree with Martyn it appears that people only want to hear the ideas that they support & anything else is unbalanced so not worth knowing.
Absolutely agree with you Martyn: hypocrisy it certainly is:
There were editorial oversight issues inside RNZ, pretending that is some great hate crime when the level of pro-Israel, pro-China and pro-America propaganda washes through our corporate mainstream media every single fucking day is just too much hypocrisy for me.
Nearly all our news is Eurocentric! We all know that whiteys never do anything wrong.
When are we going to get some reporting that comes out of Al Jazeera – an honest view of what is going on in that area of the world.
It’s Pandora’s box isn’t it.
Now the lid is off at RNZ we look around and see what garbage we are being served right across the MSM, so much opinion especially incorrect opinion dressed as fact, and not enough or any digging or verifying real facts from those in power.
The media and government cry about misinformation while serving it up in a steaming pile.
The MSM are just forcing the susceptible down conspiracy rabbit holes by not having objectivity – be they Tankies, anti vaxers sovereign citizens, or whatever.
Not great for a sensible cohesive trusting society.
I hadn’t noticed the Free Speech Union attacking Martyn as an anti-Semite and holding a position on Palestine. However I am aware they refuse to hold a position on Julian Assange because they want to only focus on NZ.
How does holding a position on Palestine but no statement on the threat to Press Freedom in NZ ( which the Julian Assange precedent sets) weigh up.
The NZ Free Speech Union should make Australian Julian Assange an honoury member.
The sooner leftists figure out that “Free Speech” is a grift which only serves to protect the far right, the better
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