NZ Herald media writer John Drinnan has a good column reporting on funding for TV3 current affairs show 3rd Degree. Campbell Live is under threat of closure for falling ratings but apparently 3rd Degree was losing money too and only saved by an injection of $567,000 from the taxpayer. IOW, John Key and the National…
Campbell Live celebrated its 10th anniversary in March this year with some of the worst ratings the series has ever had. The average audience for the week ending 30th March was down a disappointing 19% on the previous week to only 154,576 viewers per night with Tuesday and Thursday delivering only 116,040 and 118,590 viewers…
With its 53rd consecutive quarter total audience win, Fox News Channel saw a 10% primetime rise among adults 25-54 in first-quarter 2015 over last year. Nielsen reports that with 321,000 on average among the 25-54s in primetime, Fox News thrashed rivals CNN (187,000) and MSNBC (132,000) with more news demographic viewers than the other two…
Fairfax reports– The jobs of most senior editors at Fairfax Media are changing and some may disappear. Staff were told on Tuesday that seven jobs could be disestablished and 12 new senior roles created as part of a move to “make newsrooms more local content and digital focused.” Executive Editor Sinead Boucher said the changes…
One of the greatest delusions the left suffer from is the belief the media is some kind of huge monolithic right wing force. Here we have yet another authoritative academic analysis that shows the opposite is true. A sweeping study of some 130,213 news articles on the 2012 presidential match between President Obama and Mitt…
I have a data base and in it I store snippets of information from all over the web. Its so huge now I have to be very discriminating about what I store there these days, but today I read something that just has to go in there. Thanks to reader EAD I was directed to…
I think Nigel Farage is popular because he breaks through the “right thinking” wall. Progressives in media and politics and academia have constructed the wall with the idea of keeping those who agree with them on the inside, and those who don’t on the outer. Farage is a popular figure whose support forces the media…
On Feb. 13, Sun News Network shut down putting its 200 staff out of work. Sun News was often called Canada’s Fox News, featuring reporting and analysis from a conservative point-of-view, and serving as a balance to very liberal Canadian news outlets. Unlike the CBC and CTV, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission denied Sun…
Fox News has the most trusted network and cable news coverage in the United States, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released Monday. But network TV is much less trustworthy than it was in the days of Walter Cronkite, American voters say. In comparison rankings, 29 percent responded that they trust Fox News the…
John Drinnan is one of the few NZ journalists I like and he provides an interesting report on the state of Radio New Zealand. A recent Nielson survey shows the broadcaster lost around 70,000 listeners or 13 per cent of the annualised audience for RNZ National and RNZ Concert combined. It was the worst result…
A week ago, Judicial Watch released a batch of critical State Department emails they obtained via a Freedom of Information Act. Those emails make it clear that top Clinton advisors not only knew the assault on Benghazi was an armed attack but knew terror group Ansar al-Sharia claimed credit for it less than two hours…
My good friend at Crusader Rabbit reckons I am mad, but due to my interest in global politics, I watch the ABC show Q and A most times its on. He’s right in that its basically a communist propaganda show, but it has enormous influence across Australia and I think one has to stay abreast…
I don’t like Google, even though they do some good stuff. Their maps and navigations services and Google Earth are all extremely useful devices. However as a corporate they’re far too politically progressive for me, and I don’t like the way they dominate the web and endlessly collect data for marketing purposes. They read your…
Matthew Hooton likes to think of himself as a right winger and I suppose considering the narrowness of the NZ political spectrum he’s reasonably correct. In the US he’d probably attract the label of Liberal. Like Cameron Slater, who also refers to himself frequently as right wing, Hooton is really a social progressive, with a…
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has recorded 241 redundancies since the beginning of the financial year. The ABC’s chief operating officer David Pendleton confirmed the figure during a Senate estimates hearing in Canberra. The ABC announced a redundancy process at the end of last year as a result of the Federal Government’s decision to reintroduce an…
Jon Stewart started his Wednesday night show with clips from the media world commenting on his leaving the Daily Show. Naturally, Fox News had some less than favorable things to say about the late night comedian, including host Megyn Kelly claiming his show’s attacks on her over the years had “no foothold in the facts.”…
Here is how the national news service of the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s reported an event that occurred in Sydney yesterday- A man has been charged after he allegedly married a 15-year-old girl in Sydney’s south-west. Police said the man, who was 18 at the time, and the girl were wed in a private ceremony at…
The meme is out there. Watch the Democrats and their corrupt media cheer squad push it at every opportunity. Potential Democrat Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton complained yesterday that “different media” are dividing the country, making it impossible for people to even have a conversation with each other. She criticized America’s “partisan bunkers” for getting in…
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