MEDIAWATCH: Latest alt-Right Billionaire revelations should concern Kiwis

It just gets worse and worse…

Media Insider: Billionaire Jim Grenon inquired about buying Stuff during first Covid lockdown in 2020

The Auckland billionaire wanting an overhaul of media company NZME’s board has confirmed he made an inquiry to buy rival publisher Stuff five years ago.

…to date, the defence for this Alt-Right Canadian Billionaire taking over NZME has been that he’s just your average run of the mill vulture capitalist who will strip assets from NZME and make a quick killing.

All fine and good, however critics like me have pointed to:

• The sly manner NZMEs largest shareholder seems to have worked alongside Grenon to put forward an attack on the current Board that isn’t true.
• His support of anti-vaxx fear grifter Chantelle Baker.
• His war on the Journalists Union.
• His support for a far right fringe alt-right culture war hate blog that has an anti-Trans, anti-Māori, anti-Treaty, anti-vaccine and climate denying editorial line.

What we are seeing with news that he wanted to buy Stuff’s newspapers 5 years ago doesn’t speak of a vulture capitalist wanting to shred assets, it speaks to a radical far right Billionaire who wants media platforms to sell his damaged view of the world.

I keep warning you this alt-Right Canadian Billionaire attempting to take over our largest newspaper and radio station will be deeply damaging to NZ’s fourth estate and democracy.

 

 

Increasingly having independent opinion in a mainstream media environment which mostly echo one another has become more important than ever, so if you value having an independent voice – please donate here.