Sweet Jesus no…
An Auckland-based Canadian billionaire previously linked to an alternative news venture has taken a substantial share holding in NZME, the owner of the NZ Herald, Newstalk ZB and BusinessDesk.
In a release to the NZX today, Canadian private equity tycoon James Grenon has been listed as a substantial holder of NZME, with a total shareholding of 9.3%.
…don’t we have enough alt-right billionaire arseholes manipulating our media as it is?
Grenon joins the ranks of Musk overseas and the Christian Conservative Wright Family here in NZ as just another miserable rich prick who has a gross disgust of poor people and the common good wanting to have their voice heard.
The Centrist is a culture war alt-right news platform that hates poor people, Māori and the Trans community with a frisson that would make your average ZB Troll blush.
The Centrist is hate speech merchant disinformation garbage attempting to appear moderate.
Like a burning cross in an Epsom garden, or Cameron Slater in a tuxedo.
Grenon’s seizing of an almost 10% holding in NZME should be deeply concerning and is the latest move by Alt-right astroturfers and wealthy right wingers feeling emboldened by Trump’s victory and ACT’s race baiting to ‘go there’.
The last thing our media needs is another foaming billionaire taking over our Fourth Estate.
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Well, NZME is already a financial basket case, so this guy’s investment certainly can’t be about trying to make money.
So we can conclude that it’s an effort to influence the media.
We will see censorship and bias only get worse.
Martyn- you keep talking about a class war, well, for the ultra wealthy to control the narrative they have to own the media. They have owned the mainstream media for decades (over a century?) and now they own social media. You know they’re not buying mainstream media outlets to turn a profit. Herald /NZME are boomer and redneck media.
TVNZ, RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald are left run organisations, they are run and operated by left supporting ideals, all you have to do is listen/watch/read the news on these NZ media outlets to see how much they are to the left.
A right leaning news organisation is sorely needed in this country to break up the left strangle hold…this is a good news story, and well overdue.
(There has been many polls conducted on NZ journalists and academics over the years and overwhelmingly the results show left leaning)
Yeah I believe one minute Mike is a commie!
Of course Im right, you are correct.
Mike Hosking left wing, Fran Osulivan left wing, Barry Soper left wing, Du Plesis Allen left wing?
Don’t let facts get in the way of your feel good delusions. You are an idiot.
Gosh the making of an excellent media outlet, four brilliant right wing commentators enough to take on the other 4000 radicalised left wing dullards.
Thanks Squeaky you are all over this.
One Bob the knob dullard promoting arse licking hard right wing sycophant media trash radicalising those that have no capacity to think critically or for themselves.
Thank you Bob the knob, you are all over this like Willis on heat.
You need to clean your ears out before your addled brain implodes
Golly Clive go easy ,you’re being a bit mean to me and you know I’m a sensitive chap.
Gee whizz Bob, give your boyfriend I’m right a cuddle and you’ll get over it.
Thanks the good advice Squeaky but I don’t know Im right personally. What I do know from his comments he’s a well educated decent chap.
the only progressive thing about corporate owned media are the headlines. They know they have to suck in a few liberals to make their business model work because redneck losers don’t have any money
what a load of shit all of them slagged the left at the last election and fed voters with racist hate from the right ,remember these out lets telling us that maori were stealing all the water
Of course gordon walker, you are correct.
Gee whizz T-Cell do you have tomorrow night’s lotto numbers, such is your power of knowing things 15 years in advance of us more modest people.
The seer, the prophet.
Mmm let’s see Bob the knob modest…
Hahahahahahahaha!
Have I got a bridge and some ferries to sell you!
(There has been many polls conducted on NZ journalists and academics over the years and overwhelmingly the results show left leaning) Im Right
Maybe you should cite some of these polls.
But generally I agree with you, that journalists (particularly), are left leaning. but their employers are not. Which is the point being made.
It is all about who has the power and who doesn’t.
When I quote from a news source, I always try to include nor just the publisher of a news report, but the name of journalist who attached their byline to it. That is because I don’t buy into the conspiracy theory that all journalists are corrupt. The news is gathered by human beings just like you and I, I include their names to the reports that they put their reputation and their names to.
Very rarely the imbalance between journalists and their employers are revealed.
Middle East Eye reports on how a report on the killing of a helpless Downs Syndrome man by a BBC reporter was ‘revised’ by the BBC.
https://www.newarab.com/news/shameful-bbc-story-israels-killing-disabled-man-revised
Activists decry BBC coverage of Israel’s killing of Palestinian man with Down’s syndrome in Gaza
The BBC’s headline initially called Muhammad Bhar’s killing a ‘lonely death’, despite him being attacked by a dog and left to die by the Israeli army….
Passive voice is always used by the BBC in the reports of Palestinians being killed. Palestinians are not killed, they die. Israeli deaths on the other hand are always reported as ‘murdered’, except when they are murdered by their own side. That is, if they report what is going on at all.
Here is Owen Jones on the current situation in Gaza and how it being ignored and misrepresented by the Western media, including here in NZ
“Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people of Gaza has resumed. Israel has announced a total siege on Gaza, blocking all humanitarian aid from getting in. It has done this, in theory, to unilaterally impose new ceasefire terms, in defiance of the deal that’s been agreed: in practise, clearly this is a deliberate attempt to collapse the ceasefire and unleash its greatest military mayhem yet, with the aim of implementing Donald Trump’s forced violent removal of the surviving Palestinian population of Gaza.
Indeed, Israel’s military attacks on Gaza resumed yesterday, and bear in mind dozens of Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli army since the so-called ceasefire began in January. All of this is being suppressed and misrepresented by most of the Western media, who once again, cannot do their basic in explaining the inarguable facts, because their coverage is so slanted in favour of pro-Israel narratives.”
So your point is what?
What is your question Bob the knob?
Ba hahahahah aha ahahhahahah !
Heeeeeere they come. As I pointed out would happen more than 15 years ago dumbasses.
The price of freedumbs is eternal vigilance and we were too busy staring up beguiling, neoliberal arse holes and their hollow twinkle-sparkle promises to see it coming.
Solution. Farmers and Maori unite then strike. Everyone else can go to australia and fry on the griddle. You’ll find australia at the end of the extension cord.
Must watch film.
Acid House
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Acid_House_(film)
In, I think. three short stories. The second story is my favourite. It’s where a skin head rents the upstairs flat then begins to take over his meek neighbour in the flat below. I found it so toe curling I had to get surgery on my feet. Metaphor for us and the aussies.
We AO/NZ’ers could be one of the richest countries in the world per head of population. We once had the third highest standard of living in the world when old Sir John Marshal was PM and we had an I think $300,000 million dollar balance of payments credit.
Corrections and comments welcome fuckers.
Sir John Marshall then in came The Pig.
A Natzo. Yep. I know, but keep an open mind. Also, compare coincidenses between what Pig Muldoon did to Gentleman Jack and what roger douglas did to David Lange.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Marshall
Nearly forgot to add this little gem of a plan.
RNZ
“Deep sea power cable across the Tasman designed to trade surplus electricity”
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/543633/deep-sea-power-cable-across-the-tasman-designed-to-trade-surplus-electricity
Just as the scum who rule our electricity spurt out a trans Tasman extension cord, this shit gets shat out.
Remember the film I suggested? Acid House? The skinhead upstairs bashed a hole in his floor thus through the meek fellows flat ceiling below and openly stole his electricity. Metaphor an’ that FYI.
Gee whizz T-Cell do you have tomorrow night’s lotto numbers, such is your power of knowing things 15 years in advance of us more modest people.
The seer, the prophet.
This is what the right does – this is how they build media dominance and hold the narrative and this could be how they win in 2026. They build the political infrastructure and media platforms that align with business interests and the political parties that support them. Lets observe the upcoming Canadian election to understand what we could be facing in Z.
And over the ditch in may
NZ Herald, Newstalk ZB and BusinessDesk … so even more right wing crap to call out … Mike Hosking will be wetting his panties!
Commercial Media depends on advertising and sponsorship for revenue.
That media cannot afford to piss off advertisers.
The result is that commercial media never has been, and cannot be, supportive of anti-capitalism.
A historic example of this was in the depths of the 1930s depression every New Zealand newspaper, but one( the Grey River Argus), told voters that electing a Labour government would be a disaster.
The depth of misery meant voters rejected media information and voted Labour.
In the 1950s and 1960s newspapers censored out anything favourable to the Unions.
In the late 1960s only the Waikato Times criticised this country’s involvement in the Vietnam War.
Whatever personal inclination a journalist has commercial media must always be anti-capitalist and I’m right is right about fuck all.
On the contrary you prove Im right’s assertions, young stevie.
Childlike Bob the knob, on the contrary Stevie is 100 % correct. You however have embarrassed yourself again.
Something else for our Right Wing media hacks to ignore.
Full blown ethnic cleansing cum genocide
ISRAEL’S ‘FINAL SOLUTION’ FOR GAZA IS HERE
Kyle Kulinski
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAG-P1mZ2t0
@0:00 minutes
So it looks like the Israelis’ final solution for Gaza has begun…..
…..Associated Press breaking news:
Israel says it is stopping the entry of all goods and supplies into Gaza….
@1:24 minutes
The Trump Administration has bypassed Congress to approve an emergency $2.04 billion in arms sales to Israel, fast-tracking the transfer of tens of thousands of bombs…..
The deal includes over 35 thousand MK-84 2,000lb bombs designed that kill everything over a two football field sized area. The MK-84 is so destructive that President George W. Bush banned their use during the Iraq war. In these numbers, 35 thousand MK-84s amount to a weapon of mass destruction and genocide. Already. the total amount of destructive explosive force dropped on Gaza is three times the explosive force of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. 4 thousand of the 35 thousand standard MK-84s, come with heavier hardened ground penetrating casings with bunker busting warheads.
These are the type of people that Luxon is fast tracking into NZ .Come on over ,bring $5 million and buy the media and spread as much hate as you can and bottom feeders and brown pepole are open slather fill ya boots buddy .
Apart from Buffet and the bete-noir of the Fascist Right from central Europe (?) billionaires seem to be duffers to a ‘man’. Why we should never have left social democracy after Muldoon. You are quite right about cultural politics destroying economic politics in that case, Martyn.
His ‘The Centrist’ didn’t even fool the Hobson’s Choice idiots. Too middling tripe. Canuckness? The widget guys are so foolish about everything else.
This article is defamatory and ridiculously extreme.
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