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July 17, 2022 3:00pm by David Farrar

33 problems with media in one chart

A good graphic. Good media companies could use this as a learning tool – how to avoid each of the 33 issues within.

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Matt Long

Looks like a MSM business plan to me.
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July 17, 2022 3:21pm
- Scott
  
  Matt Long, totally agree. That was the business plan when Trump was president. Prime news here in NZ had at least one anti Trump news segment in every 30 minute bulletin. The New York Times massively increased its circulation by going all Trump, all the time.
  
  DPF assumes media companies want to learn and want to be more balanced. I suggest the opposite. Media companies and big tech were distraught when Trump won in 2016 and vowed to not repeat their mistake. So they systematically worked to destroy him. Trump and Russia, Hunter Biden nothing to see here, the 2020 election result was totally legit.
  
  Trump is just the most egregious example. There are many others.
  The mainstream media on most issues allow one opinion. They are leftist activists rather than objective journalists.
  
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  July 17, 2022 4:11pm
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    Every day there is a hit piece on Luxon and puff piece on Cindy. I never knew $55M can do so much!!! Bribe partners are so sincere. Good on them.
    
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    July 17, 2022 6:38pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Some of them even turned the passing of Ivana Trump into an attack on DJT. No proof, I read it somewhere and it has sort of disappeared
    
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    July 18, 2022 9:29am
TripeWryter

‘Good media companies could use this as a learning tool – how to avoid each of the 33 issues within.’

No. They’re embracing it.
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July 17, 2022 3:21pm
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Yes they are embracing it to do justice for $55M bribe.
  
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  July 17, 2022 6:38pm
MGT

Most of them seem to be present on Kiwiblog!
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July 17, 2022 3:24pm
- Pararoid
  
  Indeed. One would wonder why they’re trying to draw attention to how inappropriate it is.
  
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  July 18, 2022 12:52am
Pararoid

Seems like an odd post from a media outlet that explicitly presents a right-wing perspective.
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July 17, 2022 3:32pm
- Rodion Raskolnikov
  
  To the extent that Kiwiblog has a right-wing perspective, it doesn’t represent itself as being unbiased; unlike the corporate media, which is by and large exclusively and heavily to the left, yet I have never seen nor heard any admission of this fact. As a collective, the MSM represent themselves and their opinions as being normative and simply “the way things are,” so that any view that diverges from theirs is, by their definition, problematic and beyond the pale.
  
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  July 17, 2022 9:37pm
  - Pararoid
    
    Except that the most popular newsperson in the country is Hosking.
    
    The view that media is somehow dominated by the left simply does not line up with reality.
    
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    July 18, 2022 4:48pm
Hollyfield

I suspect a more than a few media companies won’t see these as problems or issues in the first place.
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July 17, 2022 3:36pm
pdm

Interesting that Andrea Vance has just released a book on `Bloodletting within National’ or similar title.

Two questions:
1. Was Dunny (Peter Dunne) her source.
2. Did the Covid Fund finance the book.
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July 17, 2022 3:52pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  It appears to be called Blue Blood: The inside story of the National Party in crisis
  I’m sure any politician quoted in the book excerpt published today would correct any errors.
  But the title is wrong – no politicians would ever agree that their party, or government, is ‘in crisis’.
  
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  July 17, 2022 4:20pm
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    Looks like Andrea Vance is looking for attention….
    
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    July 17, 2022 6:39pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Crisis? The meme Mike. Shows Jaspinda saying ” Crisis? There’s no crisis. We plan to borrow enough to pay off the debt completely”
    
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    July 18, 2022 9:34am
- Grizz
  
  State her name, you already have bias. For example if she tried interviewing me I would run a mile. The last thing I would want is to be lead down a hole I could not escape from.
  
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  July 17, 2022 10:26pm
PaulL

I don’t disagree with the general thrust, but many of those are over simplified click bait in their own right.

There have been good studies on algorithmic radicalisation that conclude that it’s not really happening. Slacktivism isn’t really a problem with MSM, it’s a problem with people. In fact, many of these are problems with people – that’s also why we get tabloidisation (it’s what people want).

At bottom, that’s the problem. In days gone past the media gave us what the media thought we should get, all high minded and publicly worthy. But it turns out that when people can choose their own media, they choose interminable stories about Harry and Meghan. And if we trust these people to vote, we should also trust them to choose their own media.
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July 17, 2022 4:28pm
hullkiwi

The list of 33 titles could be applied to any part of NZ’s current day MSM.

Even radio and TV follow the same ways of doing things.
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July 17, 2022 4:35pm
Tom Hunter

Ah huh. Two problems immediately spotted.
First:

Outlets will sometimes adopt the look and feel of credible news outlets without applying the same standards of quality.

What credible news outlets would these be? The ones who don’t fall prey to some/most/all of these 33 points? Is there any such outlet now. The WSJ, maybe??? Bonus laugh points if you immediately thought of the NYT or WaPo.

Second:

The media may elevate unsubstantiated ideas for the sake of argument and to avoid allegations of bias.

Climate Change anyone? Maybe in the 90’s or even the 2000’s but I can’t recall the last MSM outlet to give the time of day to any PhD-equipped scientist who questioned even a tiny piece of the story, let alone economists or engineers who pointed out the practical problems of the “solutions”. Across the Western World the MSM narrative on this is that AGW is catastrophic, that wind, solar, batteries and energy-saving home devices will save us – and shut up.

Or how about the last two years of C-19 “conspiracy theories” turning into, “Well yeah, that might be true” (but shut up about it).

No, I’m afraid this is yet another example of mainstream, status quo “thinking” that doesn’t actually get the problems even as it identifies them; It’s not us. It’s you, whoever “you” might be.
Nah Die MSM, Die, and screw fact-checkers. (the same journos with a different title)
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July 17, 2022 4:35pm
Gravelroad

Yep, journalism has come a long since my day when reporting the news and informing the readers of the facts was really the main thing.
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July 17, 2022 4:48pm
- Rodion Raskolnikov
  
  I may have believed that once, but I have my doubts now. I’m not so sure that was ever the case. Particularly with regard to the mass-media generated Covid debacle, the last remaining scales have been removed from my eyes vis a vis a naive, pre-existing assumption that what we see and hear in the corporate media is, by and large, a fair representation of reality.
  
  On reflection, what reason is there to suggest that the contemporary fundamental role of the media as paid propagandists is only a recent development? Have they degenerated into this position over time, or is it built into the idea of mass-media?
  
  It now makes perfect sense, to one degree or another, seriously doubt nearly all of the core output of the corporate media going back to the late 19th century and beyond. It seems implausible to me that it was never hitherto conceived by the controllers of media that the instrument could be employed dishonestly and deceptively in order to cynically create and disseminate narratives that benefitted the owners of media corporations, at the expense of the consumers of “news.” Mass-media owners have had the means to do so since the beginning, so it is reasonable to suggest that they have always taken advantage of the means at their disposal.
  
  Since the advent of the printing press, it became apparent that he who controlled the output of the press, controlled what the readers thought, and therefore, how they behaved. Only a tiny fraction of what we believe about the world comes from our direct sense-experience. The vast majority of our ideas, thoughts and opinions come indirectly via pre-packaged chunks of information, parcels that have been formed with an intent of having this or that effect on the consumer as an individual, and therefore as a population of individuals. The key consideration is always: who is giving me this information; and what effect do they wish to achieve? Of course, the amount and the scope of manipulation will vary between, say, philosophical treatises, works of history, literature, sociological theories, scientific papers and so on. Generally, though, the most likely and most highly proliferated forms of information to be tainted with propagandistic aims are the easily digestible items that come via the mainstream corporate-owned media.
  
  Oftentimes, the information and concepts that we consume can be tested for validity through a process of logical and rational analysis, as well as by considering whether or not the principles and ideas involved, and specific reports of events described, comport with our own past experiences. Do my existing points of reference make this proposition plausible, or is it a wholly novel idea?
  
  Ultimately, the facts are that we rely on so much indirect information to form our worldviews, with an editorial process taking place by others, in order to self-interestedly determine what is and what isn’t an important event, and the things we should and shouldn’t concern ourselves with, and we are therefore wise to always remain sceptical and to submit our received information to tests for validity and verification.
  
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  July 17, 2022 5:23pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Uptick from me, Rodion. You hit the nail on the head with this:
    
    Since the advent of the printing press, it became apparent that he who controlled the output of the press, controlled what the readers thought, and therefore, how they behaved.
    
    Which explains why the rulers of Russia, China, the Philippines, Hungary, Turkey, and all the other dictators or aspiring dictators, will go to great lengths to suppress independent media.
    
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    July 17, 2022 6:06pm
    - 1920x1080p
      
      You left NZ of your list (PIJF). Or is it different when we do it?
      
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      July 17, 2022 6:57pm
      - Rodion Raskolnikov
        
        Mike genuinely seems to think that he lives in a democracy. Bless him.
        
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        July 17, 2022 8:35pm
    - Rodion Raskolnikov
      
      You are correct, except that you don’t seem to appreciate the universality of this practice. In fact, in our society, it is essential to have control of much of the media in order to perpetuate the appearance of a functioning democracy, for instance in the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The fact that you seem to distinguish between the so-called autocracies and the so-called democracies shows that the process and methods are very effective. Where do you think “your” idea that “the rulers of Russia, China, the Philippines, Hungary, Turkey” are “dictators or aspiring dictators” came from? Probably from the controlled media you consume. Your comment proves my point perfectly.
      
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      July 17, 2022 8:34pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      NZ and Ardern should be near the top of this list.
      
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      July 17, 2022 11:11pm
  - Tom Hunter
    
    I’m not so sure that was ever the case.
    
    Nope, you can read about Walter Cronkite’s shit here with The Next GOP Hitler.
    
    Dan Rather made his name with the Kennedy assassination by turning the focus away from the actual nutbag communism of Oswald to the “frightening right-wing atmosphere” of Texas, a take that was a joke even then given it had been a solid Democrat state since the 1870’s. I was always glad he got destroyed trying to pull a similar stunt on GW Bush, with ample help in the destruction from a new media outlet called Powerline.
    
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    July 17, 2022 7:43pm
    - Rodion Raskolnikov
      
      Your comment raises a very pertinent question: why, in our popular media and culture creation institutions, is Hitler the go-to villain and paradigm evil dictator to the exclusion of all others, and not some other evil dictators often with even higher death counts, such as Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot or Idi Amin?
      
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      July 17, 2022 8:46pm
      - Cassandra
        
        They were all equal opportunity killers, targeting their perceived enemies. Hitler was different, his focus was on eliminating entire groups of people, many of whom were only guilty of the crime of being Jewish or Roma and so on. Jews who were patriotic Germans went off to the gas chambers along with the communists.
        
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        July 18, 2022 6:44am
yossarian

It is very interesting on how the media landscape has changed.

I think the fundamental change has happened since Journalism has become a ‘university degree’ as oposed the days when it was more like an apprenticeship.

Early journalists would come from mainly working class backgrounds, so had a enbred mistrust of politicians and those in power. They would also start at news organizations at the bottom and work their way up through doggedness and hard work. Politicians were seen as the enemy and the game of cat and mouse ensued.

Now journalists are blatantly middle-class students who after 3 years of university education come away with a degree. Who else are at these same universities? That’s right, middle-class communications and political science students.

If you’re wondering why our journalists are so left wing and support the left wing narrative it is because that’s the result of not having any working class credentials, unlike before.

So the next time you’re being your head against the wall screaming at the journalists to actually ask a left wing politicians a decent question, you have to realize that these journalists feel that they don’t need to explain anything to the public. If you were brought up in their world, what Jacinda and Robertson are doing is exactly what they’d do in the same situation, because they’ve had exactly the same life experiences, education and middle-class upbringing.
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July 17, 2022 5:50pm
- Grizz
  
  So what is the solution here? Add diversity to a media outlet? Employ engineers, entrepreneurs, company executives, tradesmen etc on your staff and offer a different perspective.
  
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  July 17, 2022 10:23pm
- Jack5
  
  Also, Yossarian, the news media have evolved from a heavily male-dominated industry to one in which females now are predominant.
  
  This has affected what is evaluated as “news”.
  
  Women from the elite stratum of society often want to “fix” social problems rather than just report them.
  
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  July 17, 2022 10:43pm
- PaulL
  
  Journalism courses are heavily female. As DPF posted a while back, almost the entire left/right demographic divide consists of unmarried university educated women – i.e. men who go to university don’t become overly left wing, and women/men who don’t go to university aren’t overly left wing. Women who go to university are about 10 or more percentage points more left wing, and it stays that way until they get married.
  
  How many unmarried female university educated journalists do we have?
  
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  July 18, 2022 7:58am
Tom Hunter

There’s also this aside in a more general article about Cuba and the women who survived being tortured by the communist regime, which resulted in a suicide rate of twenty-four per thousand, double Latin America’s average, triple Cuba’s pre-Castro rate, and making Cuban women the most suicidal in the world.

How these women survived years and even decades of such horrors then “took charge of their lives” and “got their groove back,” might seem newsworthy and inspirational. Indeed their stories fairly epitomize the most popular themes of women’s chat shows. You can almost hear Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” as Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg greet these long-suffering-but somehow-surviving Cuban ladies on stage with a standing ovation, sniffles, and teary hugs.

Ha! Instead, “the national media has never shown the slightest interest in any of our stories,” shrugs Caridad Roque from Miami today. Roque was arrested by Castro’s KGB-trained police at the age of 19 and suffered 16 years of prison and torture in Cuba.

Her torturer, on the other hand, has been fawningly interviewed by feminists from Barbara Walters to Andrea Mitchell and from Maria Shriver to Oriana Fallaci. On a visit to Cuba in 2002, feminist pioneer Carole King (also at the “Women’s March”) sang Fidel Castro a personal and heartfelt “You’ve Got a Friend.”

I was appalled to find out that one of my wife’s friends, a woman I thought was pretty intelligent, basically gets all her ideas and news about the USA from the Joy & Whoopi team on The View.
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July 17, 2022 5:53pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  I’ve never really understood the American fixation with the horrors of Cuba, in contrast to their studied indifference to anything bad done by all the other Latin American regimes.
  
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  July 17, 2022 6:13pm
  - Rodion Raskolnikov
    
    The inconsistency is probably because the US never acts on moral grounds, but only in the interests of its powerful ruling classes (you know, like I’ve been saying for months about their concerns for Ukraine).
    
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    July 17, 2022 8:51pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Yes, I’m well aware that as an opponent of liberal democracy you are eager to maintain that autocracies are qualitatively better governments than any democracy.
      
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      July 18, 2022 7:11am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Mma, the Brits are no better because of their colonial past.
    
    The British Empire expanded across Africa & Asia. The colonial records in both regions was nothing too flash.
    
    Since independence, the British media (with (assistance from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office) nowadays do nothing but romanticise about Africa and Asia, while ignored all but the more extreme instances of despotic failures (eg Rwanda, Ethiopia etc). So, Zimbabwe, or South Africa largely get ignored.
    
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    July 17, 2022 8:54pm
    - Tom Hunter
      
      Contra mm’s usual trolling the point of my comment was that quite clearly the US MSM has done precisely the opposite of fixating on Cuba, and since the 1980’s so has the Democrat Party – except when they want to extoll the Cuban healthcare system. The US Left of course always averted their eyes as they did every commie country, except when extolling just about every aspect of the dump.
      
      It was only the US Right-wing, with some minor media support from obscure magazines like National Review and company, that stuck it to Cuba post 60’s, and clearly even that is too much for some Lefties, hence the lofty, dismissive tone embedded in the word “fixation”.
      
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      July 17, 2022 9:15pm
  - Lenticular
    
    1) It’s mutual.
    2) Cuba did try to point nukes at the USA.
    3) Cuban Republicans are numerous and determined not to let the swine that butchered and jailed them and their families off the hook.
    
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    July 17, 2022 9:43pm
  - Matt Long
    
    Excluding Mexico and the Bahamas, Cuba is their closest southern neighbor and is strategically placed to cause issues for the Gulf States.
    I do recall people also complaining that the US was over exercised about Venezuela’s commo dictators recently also, is it that we feel commos should be given a free pass? Che t-shirts anyone?
    
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    July 17, 2022 10:19pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      No, communists should not be given a free pass. The US fixation with Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua does not help anyone actually suffering there, and creates the impression that those countries are the *worst* places in central America.
      
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      July 18, 2022 7:16am
      - PaulL
        
        Which places are worse? Columbia perhaps. Of the big countries, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico are doing OK. Not perfect, but OK.
        
        I read a great article recently (well, about a year ago) putting the position that the best thing the US could do for Mexico is to invade. Unskilled migrants from Mexico can become illegal immigrants in the USA and just the move across the border increases their average earnings by about $10K a year, even as an illegal. The US’s institutions (broken though they may be) deliver every citizen in the order of $10K more value than Mexico’s. So if the US invade Mexico and put in place US institutions instead, it would immediately make Mexico that much richer.
        
        Thought experiment only of course, since the war itself would destroy the economy.
        
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        July 18, 2022 8:02am
  - Cassandra
    
    Cuba confiscated American businesses without compensation, then teamed up with America’s mortal enemy. Other countries not so much.
    
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    July 18, 2022 6:46am
Thought Criminal

Somehow they left off “taking millions in bribes to support political parties.”

Corruption and the bought and paid for media media are in on it.
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July 17, 2022 6:10pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  you might have missed that this is a description of all ‘media’, whether ‘mainstream’, government funded, owned by corporations and advertisers, or just individuals’ blogs, Facebook ravings or Twitter feeds, etc.
  
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  July 17, 2022 6:16pm
Ronin

No fly zones. In NZ, it’s not so much the automobile industry that they avoid negative press with. It’s the Labour Party as their protected source of income.
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July 17, 2022 6:17pm
Tauhei Notts

All of the above is why I so like Kiwiblog’s posters who write on General Debate about the rugby union test match. The professional journalists are beholden to the powers that be, whereas genuine rugby supporters post on Kiwiblog warts and all.
Those people who have posted about last night’s game; take a bow, and a dram of Scotland’s finest; you help make this the best blog in the blogosphere.
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July 17, 2022 6:23pm
Maggy Wassilieff

OMG!..
Daniel Faitaua TV1 news reporter based in Europe has just told us that expected temperatures in UK tomorrow will melt railway lines.

If I remember my SC chemistry correctly, the melting points of steels are around 1200 – 1400 deg C.

Sensationalism?
Disinformation?
or just plain old ignorance of basic general knowledge?
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July 17, 2022 6:29pm
- graham
  
  Yes, I saw that story too, Maggy. My chemistry knowledge is practically non-existent, but I did comment to my wife that 40 degree heat melting railway lines sounded, err, somewhat unlikely.
  
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  July 17, 2022 7:25pm
  - Jack5
    
    Faitaua meant “bend” or “buckle”, not “melt”. This is from the web site, “World Wide Rails”:
    
    ” … to prevent thermal expansion, welded rail is installed at its stress free temperature (SFT), which is usually 90 to 110 degrees Fahrenheit in the U.S., and 27 degrees Celsius (81 Fahrenheit) in the United Kingdom. If the temperature of the rail exceeds these temperatures, the rail could begin to buckle under the high stress.
    
    Faitaua is a one-man band, shooting everywhere from the borders of Ukraine to London, giving the impression here that NZ’s State TV is a truly international organisation. This is instead of NZ’s State TV buying video from the myriad of international TV and news services.
    
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    July 17, 2022 10:50pm
cjn

The information posted by DF would provide lesson plans for the lecturer in Communications at Waikato University. Well done.
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July 17, 2022 6:50pm
Little Tons

I long thought that the entire reason that the evening news included something as boring as the weather report was to have daily content that the average joe can look out their window to verify. This builds a form of trust, albiet subtly, and helps them sell the rest of the tabloid based idiocy of the broadcast as ‘truths’. I know that is a reach, but I do know the greatest lies have confectionary sprinkles of truth on them to ‘make the medicine go down….’
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July 17, 2022 7:09pm
- PaulL
  
  Hmm. If so, then it’s not really working. The weather is no subject to just as many tabloid click bait headlines as the general news – “major storm coming, hundreds impacted” to turn out that it only impacts Stewart Island (if that). Catastrophising the weather is another thing that could go on that chart.
  
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  July 18, 2022 8:04am
Tom Hunter

An accurate description from Leftist Matt Taibbi: The New Kremlinology: Reading the New York Times

The main aspect of which is that readers have to discern the real story by noting what’s missing from the narrative as much as what’s in it.
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July 17, 2022 7:53pm
hullkiwi

Mma you are spot on. It is even more fundamental than he he who controls the printing presses.

Historically, it was he who wins the war, writes the history & with it control the media and you control the story. This is something that exercised Tony Blair & Alistair Campbell so much, that Blair & Campbell flew to Australia in January 1995 to speak with & do a deal with Rupert Murdoch. This deal remained in place until Blair stood down as PM, then the gloves were off.

However, over the Blair/Brown period & into the era of Cameron all the UK media introduce many of the 33 factors or problems we are seeing with the modern MSM.

This post is in response to Mikey above.
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July 17, 2022 8:03pm
Tom Hunter

The perfect description of the MSM – and musical too! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂: We both reached for the gun.
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July 17, 2022 8:07pm
Lenticular

Replace all 33 boxes with one saying “They’re stinking woke propagandists”.
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July 17, 2022 9:25pm
WaveyDavey

Typical hand-wringing US-centred graphic

If you ever wondered why stories in US publications are long-winded and overwritten then most of those 33 “problems” will tell you why

It starts from a premise that says that the “official” media is the gatekeeper of news content – they know what’s best for you and will give you what they think you ought to have

The last raging by a sunset industry against the dying of the light

The internet and social media, while having many problems of their own, have finally democratised news content and taken ownership from media conglomerates and their “high priests” and that is a good thing
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