Karl du Fresne

Friday, January 26, 2024

My little spat with Philip Matthews

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The news and comment website Newsroom published an article yesterday in which Philip Matthews reviewed a new and slightly revised edition of...
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Tuesday, January 23, 2024

The John Campbell question

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Once again, state-owned TVNZ has obligingly provided a platform from which its best-known (and no doubt highest-paid) journalist, John Campb...
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Wednesday, January 17, 2024

The striking outpouring of media empathy for Golriz Ghahraman

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Rarely has the media’s all-pervasive pro-Left bias been demonstrated more emphatically than in the outpouring of empathy for Golriz Ghahrama...
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Wednesday, January 3, 2024

The Crewe murders revisited

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No criminal case in New Zealand history has been more thoroughly worked over than the Crewe murders. The killing of Jeannette and Harvey Cre...
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Monday, January 1, 2024

An epic display of dummy-spitting

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As a believer in free speech, I would never question John Campbell’s right to unburden himself of a long, whiny lament about where New Zeala...
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Saturday, December 30, 2023

A grotesque irony in the honours list

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I have just sent the following letter to the Wairarapa Times-Age. It will be interesting to see whether they publish it. I would like to poi...
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Wednesday, December 20, 2023

The gentle whirring of ebikes on the Timber Trail

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A typical scene on the Timber Trail. (Photo: Barnaby Maass) If you look up the acronym oobs, you’ll see that it stands for out-of-band signa...
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Karl du Fresne
I'm a third-generation New Zealander of Irish, Danish and French descent. I grew up in the farming town of Waipukurau and still consider it my turangawaewae, although I can walk the length of the main street these days and not recognise a single face. I've written books about press freedom ("The Right to Know", 2005), wine ("The New Zealand Wine-Lover's Companion", 2009) and music ("A Road Tour of American Song Titles: From Mendocino to Memphis", 2016). In a past life I edited a daily newspaper called The Dominion. I was in journalism for more than 50 years and like many journalists I know a little bit about a lot of things and probably not enough about anything. I didn't go to university and have never won any awards. I don't call New Zealanders Kiwis, I've never sat through a reality TV show, I'm not on X or Instagram, and I haven't written my own Wikipedia entry.The picture accompanying this profile was drawn by my clever grandson Gabriel.
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