Dear NBR – strike Matthew Hooton down and he shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine
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Colin Craig vs Jordan Williams Court of Appeal decision
…as a witness in this case, it was apparent to me that the Judy didn’t seem to have any comprehension whatsoever of defamation law.
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What happened at the NBR with Matthew Hooton?
Whatever you think of Hooton, as a columnist he has the right to criticise and critique politicians and as long as he doesn’t defame that politician by lying about them, then his right to be critical of a politician is supposed to be sacrosanct and backed 100% by his Publisher and Editor.
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Clare Curran’s Public Media Panel feels like an enormous missed opportunity
We need a panel who will re-invent the public square, not tick boxes in a pretence of looking like something is changing. We need to use TV far better than it’s currently being used in association with social media as solutions and i don’t see this panel managing that.
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That gross 60Minute Interview and Twitter Offence
He may as well have conducted the entire interview with a can of warm Fosters in one hand while scratching his balls through his speedos with the other. I was half expecting him to start asking Jacinda how she got up the duff and whether he could see her ‘socially’.
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Chinese quisling tells NZers to welcome our new Totalitarian Communist Overlords
After I asked why the sleepy hobbits of muddle Nu Zilind are so mindlessly apathetic when it comes to Chinese influence in our political system, Chinese quisling Stephen Jacobi demands we all go back to sleep.
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Mainstream media don’t ask Mark Mitchell about dead civilians, they do ask him about saving puppies
FFS – will one of you journalists do your actual job and directly ask…
‘Did you or any of your mercenary mates kill any civilians while on tour in Iraq’
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Fairfax threatened NZ they would gut journalism if we didn’t give them their monopoly and they’ve lived up to that threat
Relying on corporate media to be our fourth estate was always going to be problematic when their focus is on profit over democratic obligation, it’s time for the new Government to seek a new public broadcasting relationship if we are to have watch dogs rather than corporate lap dogs.
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Has anyone worked out what the hell Meghan Markle ever did to Kate Hawkesby yet? WTF was that weird column about?
I know Kate Hawkesby as well as I know Meghan Markle so I don’t want to attribute bigotry unjustly but this is ugly at best and purposely cruel at worst.
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Jeremy Wells to join Seven Sharp – finally a reason to watch Seven Sharp
Jeremy Wells is one of the funniest and sharpest broadcasters we have and if he is allowed to do what he does best, Seven Sharp will become unmissable.