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		<title>MEDIAWATCH: Alt-Right Canadian Billionaire inches closer to total NZME takeover in time for election</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 23:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Alt-Right billionaire Jim Grenon nears 20% control of NZME ahead of Election 2026. What it means for media independence and NZ democracy.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Iran a hugely ‘friendly’ country behind the sabre-rattling</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Iran attracts an onslaught of negative media in New Zealand and Western media. But is it fair or deserved? David Robie has spent several weeks travelling in the country on sabbatical and finds the media negativity far from the reality of the “most friendly” country he has ever visited in the first of a three-part series.]]></description>
		
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