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death of the media

Rod Oram told the truth once too often?

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 10:36 am, May 9th, 2017 - 28 comments

Seems that our media no longer has room for balanced voices.

Glorifying ignorance (and why the death of the MSM won’t be all bad)

Written By: Anthony R0bins
Date published: 9:02 am, June 2nd, 2016 - 80 comments

Hey Mike Hosking – how many dead and deformed babies is the precious Olympic schedule worth to you anyway?

Competition lapdog a cert to approve newspaper monopoly

Written By: Simon Louisson
Date published: 7:43 am, May 14th, 2016 - 43 comments

“The newspaper market is buggered anyway. I wouldn’t expect we will have any daily newspapers in ten year’s time,” says Brian Gaynor.

Then they came for the cartoonists

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 11:34 am, June 17th, 2015 - 59 comments

More bad news about our media.

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