Mumbo-schmumbo from the BSA
The letter to The Platform from the Broadcasting Standards Authority resembles an April Fools gag. The RNZ newsreader was barely…
Author: Tim Selwyn
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Gaza-Israel prisoner exchange, Trump’s Knesset speech, Summit at Sharm El Sheik
I started watching the Gaza cease-fire live coverage on Al Jazeera at 6pm NZDT yesterday (13/10/2025). The events kept rolling…
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Hoiking for Hamas Least of Winston’s Bummers
Yesterday’s twitter flame war between New Zealand’s Foreign Minister and The Daily Blog editor Martyn Bradbury was a most amusing,…
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No New Zealand New York Minute: Winston and the Palestine Question
Once the official death toll in Gaza got to 50,000 I stopped following the number. The real toll will be…
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Kumara Sutra: Maori – Indian love as a response to racism
“Curry-muncher!” he retorted apropos of nothing that I could understand. Then he said it again in the plural, “curry-munchers.” He…
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“Incredible Work” Killing Tom Phillips – Did Armed Police hunt 9 and 10 year olds?
He was always going to be gunned down by police – we all knew how it would end. A Lee Harvey…
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Tamaki Makaurau by-election bombshell result
What an emphatic victory – and vindication – for Te Pati Maori and what a humiliating thrashing for Labour. The…
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HALucination: AI Journey Through Sight and Sound
Welcome to mid-2025, mid-twilight zone. Are we asking AI questions or is AI asking us questions? Is AI running tasks…
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AI-dentity crisis: I can’t say why I can’t do that, Dave.
I’m using the laptop’s pre-installed Microsoft AI, Co-pilot, which I refer to as Hal. Hal was activated on the laptop in late…
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RNZ’s existential crisis, Peacock and the Sutherland report
It says a great deal about the culture at Radio New Zealand that the independent report into RNZ by its…