Last week, journalist Rachel Smalley spoke out at TodayFM about the horrendous scenes at Albert Park and her dismay at the bias in mainstream reporting. The TodayFM archive has been pulled, but that segment of Smalley’s is still available elsewhere.
TodayFM was pulled off air because the costs outweighed the income. The entity had been running for a year and didn’t gain enough audience. Oddly, MSM don’t seem to see the problem: they are not reading the room. With the divisions and issues over the last three years and MSM’s complicity (instead of doing their job of reporting all sides and asking the questions), so many Kiwis have switched off MSM and gone to other media sites that are more honest and less biased.
Experienced New Zealand journalist and writer Yvonne van Dongen has also spoken out. “The Death of New Zealand’s MSM” was published by the Spectator Australia on Saturday.
Until recently I was a member of the mainstream media in New Zealand. A proud member. […]
After the visit of Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull this weekend and the debacle that ensued, I realise that the New Zealand mainstream media no longer exists. There is nothing mainstream about it.
Apart from one writer who wrote in favour of free speech, the media here universally panned Keen, repeating the slurs of her critics and the contents of a rubbish Wiki entry, which call her a an anti-trans, white supremacist, Nazi […]
So RIP New Zealand mainstream media. They have joined the ranks of the political and public service urban elite pushing a state-sponsored religion – gender ideology.
Van Dongen discusses how groups that should be protecting women are too scared to speak out against this ideology. How ministers have spun the event and how police stood back at Albert Park. Van Dongen was there. She called 111.
It’s not just gender ideology that is not examined fairly in the media, there are other issues New Zealanders know are being suppressed, such as differing viewpoints and information on the curriculum refresh, the teaching of science in schools and universities, co-governance, Three Waters and anything to do with Maori politics. The fear is that such stories will fuel racism just as an examination of gender ideology and trans activism is believed to fuel transphobia. Perversely, the suppression of debate on issues like this is dividing the nation like never before.
MSM are shooting themselves in the foot and other outlets are reaping the benefits.
Read more here. Discuss it on The BFD.