Thursday, September 16, 2021

Why we should be more sceptical than ever about the media

Freelance journalist Graham Adams has written an excellent piece for The Democracy Project on the government’s Public Interest Journalism Fund, aka the Pravda Project, and its implications for media impartiality. You can (and should) read it here.

10 comments:

Odysseus said...

Thanks for sharing this Karl. Sadly we all KNOW that the media have been corrupted by this government's funding which comes with strings attached, eg the "Public Interest Journalism Fund" with its criteria for race-based propagandizing. We have also witnessed the "cancellation" and then the purge of centre-Right voices like Sean Plunket and Peter Williams (a "taonga" of broadcasting). I welcome each new day with the hope that "Stuff", perhaps the most craven media outlet of them all although it's hard to beat RNZ admittedly, will this day go broke and collapse. Labour have done a consummate job in subverting the media and one can only have great admiration for a Waikato University Bachelor of Communications degree.

Doug Longmire said...

Excellent article, which analyses and describes the situation exactly.
Of course - this article will never be published in the Pravda MSM.

Graham Adams said...

Thanks for posting, Karl. If anyone wants to watch the exchange between Ardern, Seymour and Collins (and then Seymour's Point of Order being brushed off by Mallard), it begins around the 5:52 mark. (Question 2 - Hon Judith Collins to the Prime Minister)
https://ondemand.parliament.nz/parliament-tv-on-demand/?itemId=219431

Ross said...

Although maybe the money isn't a big factor since so many of those journalists are on board with all Jacinda's 'values' anyway?

Phil said...

Graham,

Thanks for the great article. I also watched Jack Tame's interview with Nanaia Mahuta and no mention of the 3 Waters governance structure. Quite clearly our country is in trouble. Jack may not see it as an issue but there are plenty of people out there who do and there is no way the Government is going to slip that through quietly without protest. Many Councils are fighting back, I see Gary Moore in Christchurch is working on a resistance plan if his Council capitulates.

hughvane said...

I urge readers and responders to view Garrick Tremain's latest (top left of his page here https://garricktremain.nz/cartoons.

Kimbo said...

If this comes to pass from Sean Plunket it will be a welcome and long-overdue corrective.

And interestingly as per the interview, it was Plunket who first pushed for more te reo on Radio NZ:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/126414149/sean-plunket-putting-the-unfashionable-back-on-air

Unknown said...

Thanks, great of you to point out this well written piece.

Russell said...

Graham Adams has just published another excellent piece about the NZ media's selective use of 'facts' at DP. Link here https://democracyproject.nz/2021/09/24/graham-adams-going-where-the-media-wont/

kiwhig said...

Another example is the NZ Herald refusing to print Chris Bishop's op-ed which criticises the govt's Covid response. Bishop is the Nats spokesperson on Covid-19, but that status was apparently not sufficient to print his views. (But note that Kiwiblog did publish Bishop's article, and a rocking read it is too.)