The Media Council has upheld a complaint by Ian Wishart and another seperate complainant Catriona Atkinson against state-funded legacy media outlet RNZ regarding a misleading headline on a February 2025 article about Hamilton’s “heatwave”.
While the body did not find the article itself breached standards, it ruled the headline—originally claiming the heatwave “shattered” records—violated Principle (6) on Headlines and Captions by presenting uncertain scientific opinion as fact.
Wishart cited 1934-35 data showing higher temperatures than 2025, accusing RNZ of failing to adequately research historical context. Although RNZ later modified the headline and added background information, the Council found these changes insufficient to reflect the uncertainty expressed by the quoted climate scientist.
What a smokescreen on all the other LIES the MSM has poured over the public since years! Where is the media cuntsil on all the lies and omissions about covid, the corruption of politicians, the filth between corporates and science, or how health authorities terrorize doctors who are silenced? It’s a sh*t-show and almost all so-called journalists are with their corrupt snouts and sick souls in the trough of corruption.
Once you lose your reputation of fairness and impartiality you will not get it back. And all minions of that sh*t-show will never be forgotten.
Hell hath no fury like mothers scorned!
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The boy who cried wolf comes to mind…..they have now become a laughing stock.
The way to beat this is to not tune into their station. Except for using a VPN they know who tunes in and for how long.
Yes you have to tune in sometimes to see what they are dishing up as truth.
Defunding them isn’t going to happen as the government will have no one peddling their lies. Besides, its your tax dollars funding them.
It seems as if these people are invincible, but I can assure you. They are very worried. They hate protests. Furthermore, they know we know how they operate and worst of all their army is a few thousand, ours is 5 million.
Kudos to Daily Telegraph New Zealand, the freest publication in the world due to this totally free comment section.
I agree, and getting better ALL the time. It’s my first go to news site in the morning. Bravo Daily Telegraph! Covering a wide range of news local and worldwide 👍 and I adore the comments section for venting 😝
I haven’t read stuff for ages and I only look at the Herald headlines and would be lucky if I clicked on 2 articles a week. I certainly would NEVER subscribe to them. They burnt their bridges with me during covid with the dumb 95% vaxed business. They hardly ever get to the nitty gritty of a subject with proper investigative journalism and most of their stuff is PR spin. Plus they are so very clearly biased towards left wing agendas. No thank you.
Defund them. Taxpayers should not be funding media organisations.
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The Media Council is a joke. Without the media you wouldn’t have a council. Joined at the hip.
Flip, I honestly didn’t think of that. Really.
But again, it is another good example of the self-serving, self-propatating, self-propelling and self-defending hydra of bureaucratic parasitism.
Ian should start a new political party. I’d vote for him 👍
Yeah I love the guy. Super well informed about so many important issues. Can’t argue with truth and facts.
Love Ian’s work.
Go Ian right as always. Just wish we could get some traction on the pedo ring Ian exposed covered up by Helen or is it Howard…