Veteran journalist Ian Wishart is crowdfunding legal action against TVNZ, RNZ, TV3 and the Broadcasting Standards Authority, accusing them of “churnalism”, copying climate press releases without their own fact-checking.
Wishart, editor of Investigate Magazine, has set up a Givealittle Page to raise $35,000 for two High Court challenges. He said trust in the mainstream media is at an all-time low, and regulators like the BSA – which is now being disbanded – have contributed to a lack of standards in reporting. A recent Curia poll taken by RCR, showed 51% of people now trust the independent media more.
The Givealittle page explains the cases in question “concern reports describing a Dunedin rainfall event as the city’s “wettest day in over a century,” and Hamilton experiencing its “hottest days” during a heatwave,” Wishart argued historical records do not support those claims. His own investigations show that Dunedin’s wettest day was actually when 229mm fell in 1923, while Hamilton’s hottest day was in the summer of 1934-35, a heatwave that dwarfed the “shattered records” headline that RNZ was forced to correct.
The case comes as major international outlets over the weekend framed routine summer temperatures as a crisis. BBC reported UK “heat deaths,” while US publications called it a “dangerous heatwave,” both failed to acknowledge that heatwaves have always claimed lives, or that the science tying these specific events to climate change is modelled, not observed.
Wishart said the fight is not about climate change, it’s about making the media prove what they print: “If we win, the public will have created a media law precedent that big bold headline claims need to stack up,” he said. Since its weekend launch the fundraiser is over halfway to its target with just over $21,000 donated.
Watch RCR’s interview with Ian Wishart and this interview from March, or read more at The Centrist, Ian Wishart on Facebook and Givealittle.
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Opening the hatch to see the cheap cogs in the mindless machine that constantly defecates manufactured illusions of consensus.
Good on you Ian Wishart. It is time to denounce the corrupt MSM for its outright lies and deceit.
Can’t be letting facts get in the way of the garbage churned out to squeeze between the ads.
Good man. The misinformation (to use their own parlance) needs to be pushed back against. That said, the MSM are finished, so in the scheme of things, they will be more extinct than their climate change alarm ism, in a few years if not sooner.
Give generously, as though your liberty, property ownership and civil rights depended on it, because…they do!
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/climate-change-lockdowns-yup-they-are-actually-going-there/
Besides; we already know who’s behind the false data, and how THEY benefit from the misery of others…!
https://thezog.wordpress.com/who-is-behind-the-climate-change-hoax/
https://rumble.com/v3c73n4-greg-reese-depopulation-climate-change-and-weather-weapons.html?e9s=src_v1_s%2Csrc_v1_s_o&sci=f559e2a4-df18-4070-b2f6-1bbde908c1ac&__cf_chl_f_tk=FabnzzXTn05L4Xyq9IveW7dBlXDtP7HODQt6E_N3uVA-1782767315-1.0.1.1-LaFBidRHmmfXbpeQU9v2Q330EmufwfU.e5AvLSS3Zn4
https://rumble.com/v69wh07-directed-energy-weapons-burning-homes-to-ash-greg-reese.html
MEDIA IS A PSY-OP; BELIEVE ABSOLUTELY NONE OF THEIR ZIONIST / GLOBALIST-BASED BULLSHIT ..!
https://davidduke.com/dr-duke-exposes-the-real-insurrection-jewish-takeover-of-the-usa-in-politics-media-finance/
The global media is in the hands of the (J3wi$h) perpetrators as noted below-
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1fd471dc-a75f-42fc-b4f2-02fa180e6520_537x402.png
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAGE4jFtxEQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CDaflxJJ0g
WE ARE IN WORLD WAR THREE, ARE FACING LIFE-THREATENING SHORTAGES, NO OFFERED PLAN TO STOP THIS SHIT IS BEING IMPLEMENTED BY THE PTB OR ANY GOVERNMENT, AND ALL TVNZ AND THE REST OF THEIR OFFSHORE ILK PROMOTE IS…FIFA…FIFA…FIFA…RUGBY…RUGBY…RUGBY…CRICKET…CRICKET…CRICKET…BASEBALL…BASEBALL…BASEBALL…
Sports are a tool of distraction and deflection!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQXGSb5PMUw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhQTb_iVuiI
Please obey and trust the eye-darting MSM “experts” and only drive teslas, stay indoors, have an insect diet, ban farming, cover the hills with “friendly” windmills, ban oil and 1080 the forests… that way we can help prevent oceanic submergence from the melting icebergs whilst saving the poor penguins and we’ll all be helping to stop the climate emergency urgency catastrophe. Thank you… baaaaahhh….
I always look for proof (or at least some logical deductions) and don’t need “media law precedent”. And I find accurate news sources in strange ways.
For example, I’ve always looked for independent news reporting about the ongoing Iran-USA war because MSM is full of rubbish. Then, while trawling through the internet to get better information on inaccurate or ambiguous reporting on recent FIFA World cup events, I found this site https://www.omanobserver.om/ which made perfect sense and removed that ambiguity (can’t now recall what the ambiguity was) – my simple logic is that – if the Oman Daily Observer can report accurately on football, then they’ll probably report accurately on everything else – and I always check this site for news on Strait of Hormuz.
There’s no need to trust any media from anywhere. It’s up to us to look around.
Here’s another example of fake, manipulative ‘media’…
Just hours before Futures Markets opened last night, AXIOS reported that both the US and Iran had agreed to cease all kinetic activity and meet in Doha, Qatar for talks to end all fighting. Axios’ storny was FAKE NEWS.
Iran’s lead negotiator Gharibabadi directly rejects Axios report that technical talks are happening in Doha this week, per Iran Nuances. “No date set. No venue agreed. No technical talks,” Gharibabadi stated.
“Routine consultations with Qatar continue, but formal negotiations can only begin when conditions are met otherwise not.”
Axios reported, citing U.S. officials, that Iran and the U.S. agreed to halt attacks and meet Tuesday in Doha. Iran says the report is false.
THIS IS A PATTERN!. Axios has published multiple “deal imminent” scoops — each landing before markets open, each moving oil prices, each rejected by Tehran.
Axios is not a mediator. It’s a market mover — dressed as journalism.
Well done about taking a stand against globalist propaganda. MSM all advertising constantly about choosing them to source their news information, sorry guys but I will never read your LIES.
Finally someone with some balls and a brain.
Make him PM.
My understanding is that Blackrock owns all the mainstream media here in new Zealand.
This is going to be interesting and a pleasure to donate to.
Correct me if I’m wrong
Donated!!
https://envirowatchnz.com/2025/01/05/pimp-my-shot-pfizers-top-owners-blackrock-vanguard-are-top-shareholders-of-parent-companies-that-own-the-nz-herald-newshub-newstalk-zb/