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The Bad Newsletter

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  • The bad news for news

    The bad news for news

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    Straight to the point: News media in this country is getting pulped and it’s an absolute goddamn catastrophe. It’s happening so fast, insanely fast, and I worry we’re not even beginning to grasp the sheer loss to society. Newshub will soon be gone, disposed of like so much trash by its megacorporate owners Warner Brothers

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  • The Fifth Columnists

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    This is a long one, so… Let’s begin with a series of interesting facts. Some extracts from the first-ever editorial of the New Zealand Herald, November 13, 1863, which is very concerned with the health of the…

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  • Shit Speech, 2021 Edition

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    A while back – two years, in fact – I wrote an essay about a problem that had been bothering me for a long time. The news media, and the commentary served up alongside it, seemed saturated…

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  • It’s 2021, and the NZ news media is still doing climate change denial

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    The Spinoff’s Bulletin newsletter is always a banger, and the one that came hot on the heels of the IPCC’s catchily-named Sixth Assessment Report was no exception. The roundup was excellent, linking to a number of concise,…

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  • Talkback radio’s racism is a feature, not a bug

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    People all over New Zealand are in shock at the news that someone said something racist on talkback radio. The shock, of course, mainly comes from the fact that there have been actual consequences for saying something…

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  • Chris Liddell: the NZ news media is not your laundromat

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    It’s not a good time to be associated with Donald Trump, and so it’s probably not a good time to be White House Deputy Chief of Staff Chris Liddell. But that hasn’t stopped the New Zealand news…

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