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    From Tony@21:1/5 to All on Thu Nov 30 02:47:31 2023
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    https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/301017380/coalition-negotiations--why-the-unseemly-rush
    So the MSM were just continuing to try to justify the bribe.

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  • From Gordon@21:1/5 to Tony on Thu Nov 30 04:01:02 2023
    On 2023-11-30, Tony <lizandtony@orcon.net.nz> wrote:
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/301017380/coalition-negotiations--why-the-unseemly-rush
    So the MSM were just continuing to try to justify the bribe.


    It is often a good idea to understand the history of why something is done. Often there are good and valid reasons which still hold today.

    Good to toss that once again an experienced person has laid out the facts
    and reasons why the media was getting all upset, and why there was no need
    for them to become so.

    In short the Forth Estate looks as if it will have a funeral shortly.

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  • From Willy Nilly@21:1/5 to All on Thu Nov 30 05:54:03 2023
    Also funny is https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/503620/is-winston-peters-right-to-call-state-funded-journalism-bribery-or-is-there-a-bigger-threat-to-democracy
    in which a "professor of media studies" does the usual defense of how journalism couldn't possibly be influenced by the payoff, and, at the
    end, that it's "political disinformation" to say so, and then...

    the payoff...

    the disclosure statement at the end, possibly appended by a larrikin,
    showing that the "professor" has been paid off in multiples by:
    "the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, NZ on Air, the Department of
    Internal Affairs, and the Canadian Department of Heritage". HAHAHA

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  • From Tony@21:1/5 to Willy Nilly on Thu Nov 30 07:11:37 2023
    wn@qwert.com (Willy Nilly) wrote:
    Also funny is >https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/503620/is-winston-peters-right-to-call-state-funded-journalism-bribery-or-is-there-a-bigger-threat-to-democracy
    in which a "professor of media studies" does the usual defense of how >journalism couldn't possibly be influenced by the payoff, and, at the
    end, that it's "political disinformation" to say so, and then...
    Hilarious all right - how our universities have become intellectually corrupt in many cases. Articles like this, the cancellation of meetings when they disagree with the speaker's views etc.
    The very notion that universities are defenders of freedom of speech and intellectual integrity is no longer universal and in fact becoming a rarity. That's the corrupt left for you.

    the payoff...

    the disclosure statement at the end, possibly appended by a larrikin,
    showing that the "professor" has been paid off in multiples by:
    "the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, NZ on Air, the Department of
    Internal Affairs, and the Canadian Department of Heritage". HAHAHA

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