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VICE stops publishing new content and lays off ‘hundreds’ of staff

Once valued at $5.7 billion, the outlet has since descended into irrelevance. Vice.com has stopped publishing new content and laid off several hundred employees, its...

‘Conspiracy theorists’ threaten mainstream media, says Trudeau

Justin Trudeau wants “massive changes” in the news landscape. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday blamed social media for preventing major news outlets from...

Legacy media boss says generative AI is an ‘extinction-level event’

Legacy media bosses are making submissions on the Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill, as they 'cling on by their fingernails' claiming the industry is...

Fake News: BBC ‘misrepresented’ COVID risk to drive lockdown agenda – expert

Professor Mark Woolhouse, a prominent epidemiologist and advisor to the UK government during the COVID-19 pandemic, criticised the BBC for misrepresenting the risk of...

Reporters without shame: Top ‘media rights’ organisation ignores rampant killings of Gaza journalists

Reporters Without Borders’ annual report downplays dozens of deaths of media professionals in Israeli attacks. At the end of 2023, Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans...

Musk responds to WSJ ‘hit piece’

The US news outlet claimed influential figures at the billionaire’s companies were concerned about his illegal drug use. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk hit back at...

Bryce Edwards: The Liberal Vs Conservative anguish over the direction of NZ politics

With the new conservative government well into its first 100 days, there’s been rising anguish from liberals about what all this means. As they come...

The courage to admit mistakes in public

Dear friends, A few weeks ago I was invited to give a speech at the fourth International Crisis Summit in the Romanian parliament – you...

New York Times sues Microsoft and OpenAI

AI chatbots threaten “independent journalism,” the US paper of record has said. The New York Times filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against Microsoft and OpenAI...

Politico announces ‘Borat award’ for diplomacy winner

The gaffe-prone Josep Borrell has repeatedly embarrassed the EU, according to the outlet. The European Union’s foreign policy head, Josep Borrell, was “honored” on Tuesday...

Prince Harry wins phone-hacking case

Piers Morgan and other Mirror editors knew they were breaking the law by tapping the British royal’s phone, a judge has ruled. Britain’s Prince Harry...

BBC accused of bias by own reporters – Al Jazeera

Employees have reportedly complained that the British state broadcaster is downplaying the suffering of Palestinian civilians. BBC journalists have accused the British state broadcaster of...

‘Putin has died of a heart attack’: Inside the Western legacy media’s ‘intelligence sources’ and their fake news about Russia

Where does the Anglo-American propaganda machine get its nonsense stories about the president’s health? Western media is again spreading rumors about a sudden deterioration in...

Confidence in US news media hits record low – poll

Less than a third of Americans say they trust the press to report the news fully and accurately. Only 32% of Americans trust the media...

Guardian ‘fires’ veteran cartoonist over Netanyahu sketch

Steve Bell’s work was reportedly deemed to be perpetuating an anti-Semitic trope. British newspaper The Guardian has ended its four-decade working relationship with cartoonist Steve...

Don’t read American media – Putin

The Russian president insisted that US news outlets often distort reality. Russian President Vladimir Putin has encouraged reporters to read the American media less. The...

Stuff leave Twitter (X)

The legacy media outlet will stop posting and sharing its content on Twitter (X) with immediate effect, the group announced yesterday. The company claimed Twitter...

Tara Reade: Russell Brand rape allegations are the return of the MeToo political zombie

If crimes were committed, they must be investigated and brought before court – but not the biased court of establishment media. Recently, actor and comedian...

NYT exposes Zelensky lie about Donbass missile strike

An investigation contradicts the Ukrainian president’s claim that a Russian attack killed civilians the same day as a visit by the US secretary of...

Russell Brand accused of rape

The British actor and comedian has claimed allegations against him are part of a wider ‘agenda at play’. The British actor and comedian Russell Brand...

How ‘Fact Checking’ Obliterates Truth

Truth is beauty and beauty is truth and it’s really beautiful when you can manipulate the truth to suit your own ends. Welcome to the...

‘MSM is the mirror image of the political establishment’ – New Conservatives

'The battle of the two Chris' would assume that NZ is still in a First Past The Post electoral system - that's all the...

Released: The Most Explosive New Zealand Investigative Documentary in recent times is launched

Episode One Red Carpet Event in Auckland this Sunday September 3. Press Release - Billy Te Kahika After a year’s work and filming 1800 minutes of...

MSM climate change content was government paid ‘propaganda’

Minister Megan Woods acknowledged in questioning that the government had paid money in exchange for mass media editorial content on 'climate change'. The story broke...

Guy Hatchard: If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is a duck

The UK Daily Mail leads today with a story about the heart attack suffered by Bronny James on the basketball court. According to two UK doctors described...

Guy Hatchard: Something is happening, but what? RNZ wants us to fantasize about it

On Saturday, the UK Daily Express headlined a story “Experts call for urgent investigation as excess deaths spark ‘dangerous’ theories". UK excess deaths in 2023 have...

Google testing journalism AI – NYT

The tech giant’s AI chatbot Bard is already notorious for serving up false information as factual. Google is testing an AI-powered journalism product and pitching...

How to create a fake news cycle

Despite the best efforts of the mainstream media to pillory him as an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is having a moment. A...

Legacy media outlets ‘colluded’ to pull pro-women’s rights ad

The ad was pulled at 'the 11th hour', having previously been approved, says spokesman for Family First NZ  CEO, Bob McCroskie. An advertisement for the...

Unreliable narrators strike again—RNZ on the attack

A group of Scottish medicos are calling for the reintroduction of mask wearing in mid-summer. They’re worried, but why? After three and half years and...

20% of Ukrainian weapons destroyed in just two weeks – New York Times

Kiev’s Western-supplied tanks and armored vehicles “all burned,” one soldier told the newspaper. The Ukrainian military lost 20% of the equipment it sent to the...

Watch: Just Stop Oil protesters gate crash BBC Proms

Environmental demonstrators blared air horns and set off confetti cannons on the stage of a concert in London. Activists disrupted a concert put on by...

South Africa calls out Reuters’ air-raid ‘misinformation’

Sirens reportedly blared as a delegation from Pretoria arrived in Kiev, but a spokesman for President Ramaphosa claimed everything was peaceful. South African presidential spokesman...

Tucker Carlson’s first independent show is a new challenge to the establishment

The former Fox host is as outspoken as ever, and even if his remarks are a bit out there at times, he is opening...

‘The only thing we have to fear is fear itself’, and of course government propaganda

At the height of the fear and panic about possible pandemic outcomes, there is no doubt people acted under a fight or flight psychology. Anyone familiar with...

Prince Harry in UK tabloid case: UK journalism, government at ‘rock bottom’

Prince Harry's appearance on the witness stand marks the first time in over 132 years that a senior member of the British royal family...

A proposal that would make us the Hermit Kingdom of the South Pacific

The Dept of Internal Affairs is proposing a new regulator of online content who can censor and penalise according to ill defined/subjective criteria. It's...

Watch: How ‘The Guardian’ UK went from being a ‘beacon of independent journalism’ to controlled opposition

The UK's Guardian newspaper was once considered a 'beacon of independent journalism'. It was the first mainstream media outlet in the world to publish Wikileaks...

Study of data from 1.5 million subjects in the US healthcare system reveals increased risk of blindness over two years following mRNA vaccination

Fortunately many people are waking up to a multi-billion dollar web of self-interest promoted by our government, the health establishment, the pharmaceutical/biotech industry and...

Tech billionaire to buy Forbes – media

Austin Russell will reportedly acquire a majority stake in the business publication for some $800 million. Austin Russell, a 28-year-old automotive tech billionaire, will buy...

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