The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 27th November 2016

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    1. Government still actively killing off any remaining independent free speech channels in favour of Corporate MSM.

      http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/201824823/leading-local-channel-ctv-to-go-off-air

      Leading local channel CTV to go off air

      From Mediawatch, 9:11 am today

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      Colin Peacock – mediawatch@radionz.co.nz & @MediawatchNZ

      Christchurch’s CTV channel survived a quake that killed half its staff and wrecked its premises five years ago. But changing technology, media economics and public broadcasting policy have combined to knock the country’s leading local TV channel off the air. ​

      Picture of CTV broadcasting live from the site of their former building on the fifth anniversary.
      CTV broadcasting live from the site of their former building on the fifth anniversary. Photo: screenshot

      In February 2011, the collapse of the Christchurch’s CTV building, named after the local TV channel which had been on the air since 1991, killed 115 people.

      The channel lost more than half its staff that day, including managing director Murray Wood, a veteran of the TV industry.

      At the time, local TV critic Trevor Agnew told Mediawatch the city would miss CTV.

      “They stuck to their knitting with programmes that kept the regional link, and people watched them,” he said.

      “It’s terrible to speak about it in the past tense but it seems CTV as we know it is finished,” said Trevor Agnew, buffeted by aftershocks during the conversation.

      But he spoke too soon.

      “Anyone who gives up in a little bit of adversity is not worth a tin of salt,” said chairman Nick Smith in 2011.

      CTV was broadcasting again in Christchurch less than three months later. It might have been sooner but replacement equipment was held up by – of all things – a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

      Within a year, the ‘The Recovery Channel’ was broadcasting more local programmes than before – north as far as Kaikōura and as far south as Waimate – from new premises.

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  3. The New Zealand Government knows that Saudi Arabia, a country that it has tried to appease by helping to set up a sheep farm, is committing war crimes in Yemen.

    https://willnewzealandberight.com/2016/11/27/new-zealand-turning-blind-eye-to-saudi-war-crimes/

    We can help Yemen by telling Saudi Arabia to stop its bombing of civilian targets and the British and the Americans to stop supplying the munitions and the delivery systems (and in the case of the U.S., the intelligence used for planning the attacks).

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  4. A brilliant discussion on ‘fake news’ !….and ironic the EU oligarchy would like to ban RT and these guys as dangerous Russian propaganda

    Question: Is the EU oligarchy going fascist and totalitarian?

    ‘Fake news’

    https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/368122-mainstream-media-fake-news/

    “It is called fake news and we are told it is dangerous. Maybe we can agree on this. But let there be no mistake – it is governments and mainstream media that have peddled fake news for decades. And this is being challenged.

    CrossTalking with Patrick Henningsen, Vladimir Golstein, and Marcus Papadopoulos.”

    https://www.rt.com/op-edge/368077-eu-parliament-rt-resolution/

    https://www.rt.com/op-edge/368261-eu-mep-resolution-rt/

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    1. Good discussion alright it shows how twisted and despicable the MSM is to try and scare us into accepting their Corporate MSM propaganda and can the ,last free speech RT channel as the only real “investigative Journo channel left now.

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