Barry Soper’s King’s Birthday Honour Is a Media Farce
Barry Soper gets a King’s Birthday gong for journalism. Martyn sees something else: a warning label for what happens when bitterness devours a career.
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Jim Grenon Media Influence and the Batchelor Case
Jim Grenon tried to keep his role funding Julian Batchelor’s failed TVNZ defamation case out of the news. The judge said no. That matters.
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Labour Party Leak Shows Amateur Hour
The Labour Party leak is not really about a dumb insult. It is about a party asking to govern while failing to secure its own training room.
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Why wasn’t Ray Chung hounded like Tory Whanau?
Tory Whanau was publicly torn apart for rumours and innuendo, yet Ray Chung’s resignation following police concerns around an emergency response has generated nowhere near the same level of scrutiny. The contrast says a lot about who the media chooses to target.
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TWITTERWATCH: Come on, does anyone believe this Matthew Horncastle story?
If Matthew Horncastle runs for National, critics say it could expose exactly how far culture war politics has consumed the modern Right.
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Mike Hosking’s face has been so whitewashed in new ZB advert he looks like a KKK scrotum with botox
The new ZB advert has polished Mike Hosking so aggressively he looks less like a broadcaster and more like a haunted scented candle with opinions.
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Chantelle Baker And The Russian Media Red Flag
When Russian media starts spotlighting your culture-war grift, maybe stop celebrating and start asking who finds you useful.
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How much of a snowflake has Barry Soper turned out to be?
Barry Soper spent decades dishing it out. Now one 16-year-old grudge has made him look like the most fragile man in New Zealand media.
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MEDIAWATCH: Alt-Right Culture War Billionaire Jim Grenon should pay defamation bill
If you bankroll the fight, should you also pay the bill when it collapses?
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Troy Bowker vs Sinead Boucher, is the oligarchy in action
When the rich can squeeze media they don’t like… is that business — or something else?
