Karl du Fresne
Friday, July 12, 2024
What Diderot might have said about traffic cones
›
What the hell took him so long? That’s the only question arising from Transport Minister Simeon Brown’s belated crackdown on traffic cones ....
2 comments:
Friday, July 5, 2024
Here's the news: life will go on
›
I’ve asked this question before, but it’s time to ask it again: do TV journalists have any idea how precious and self-absorbed they look? ...
9 comments:
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
A monumental piece of work
›
By anyone’s standards, my friend and long-ago employer Ian F Grant leads a very busy life, especially for an 84-year-old. But the past wee...
5 comments:
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Howling at the moon
›
(This post is a one-off. It does not signify a reactivation of my blog.) There’s a crisis in the news media and the media are blaming it o...
29 comments:
Thursday, February 22, 2024
The case for objectivity in journalism
›
The cover story in the latest issue of North & South , headlined A matter of opinion , takes up an issue raised by me twice in recent we...
59 comments:
Friday, January 26, 2024
My little spat with Philip Matthews
›
The news and comment website Newsroom published an article yesterday in which Philip Matthews reviewed a new and slightly revised edition of...
23 comments:
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
The John Campbell question
›
Once again, state-owned TVNZ has obligingly provided a platform from which its best-known (and no doubt highest-paid) journalist, John Campb...
26 comments:
›
Home
View web version