We can’t trust the gutless, toothless and self interested NZ Press Council for ethics in Journalism, but seeing as we as a National have surprisingly stood against Israeli aggression at the UN, don’t we owe it to the activists who have fought against Apartheid Israel and who have suffered for that stance the chance to have injustices to them wiped clean?
This is lazy journalism, it’s not news. Imagine what we could do in this country of the media focused on the suicide rate the way they do the bloody holiday road toll.
How is a slavish worship of consumerism on Boxing Day and the continued tedious update of our holiday road toll anywhere near as important as NZs leadership on criticising Israel?
2016, what a year. In a year where ‘fake news’ and online propaganda infected itself upon social media, news consumers had no idea what was actually real and what wasn’t.
Post Dirty Politics, the mainstream corporate NZ media have moved from secretly colluding with a far right hate speech merchant like Cameron Slater for scoops to simply tripping over their own class blindspots for news headlines.
We also need to update you all over the many kind comments we have received in the wake of the NZ on Air funding decision to not fund Waatea 5th Estate next year. The incredible generosity of so many working NZers who saw Waatea 5th Estate as mandatory current affairs viewing overwhelmed us all. We have decided to sit down with some people over the Summer and look to do a crowd funding proposal to produce Waatea 5th Estate for the election and build up The Daily Blog’s bloggers so that their work can get the resourcing it deserves.
It is depressing to think that we will see a 2017 election with the same current affairs gatekeepers doing the same idiocy dressed up as public debate.
IS JOHN KEY really in the running for Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)? Well, yes, according to the NZ Herald’s Deputy-Political Editor, Claire Trevett, he is. Upon closer examination, however, Trevett’s story looks a lot more like fake news than real news.
Duncan Greive’s weird scorn of Viceland in the NZ Herald seems less Opinion piece and more Advertorial.
Oh. My. God Viceland on Sky TV 13 is the best thing to ever happen to NZ Journalism.