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Our Masters’ Voice: Promoting acceptable ideas and suppressing everything that challenges the prevailing orthodoxy may be the winning formu...

Slava Ukraini! The Ukrainian narrative, at least as far as the West is concerned, is not, and should not be, complicated. Like World War II...

Beyond the First Rough Draft of Ukraine ’s  Recent History: Reality is multi-faceted, what you see invariably depends on where you stand. T...

Who’s Missing From This Picture?  The re-birth of the co-governance concept cannot be attributed to the institutions of Pakeha rule, at leas...

Waving Us In - Or Away? Increasingly reliant on pollsters and PR people, Nine to Noon has quite consciously narrowed the range of politica...

Facing The Worst: It was in May of 2020 that RNZ broke the news that the Police had been secretly trialling the Facial Recognition Technolo...

A Friend In Need: I have grown up, and grown old, within earshot of New Zealand’s public broadcaster. Through times of peace and plenty, th...

Worryingly Uninterested: Given Broadcasting Minister Kris Faafoi’s evident uninterest in the classic Reithian principles of public broadcast...

Putting Us In Our Place: RNZ management seems to glory in “disrupting” the expectations of its core audience. Those expectations, based ...

Wise Words: “To retain its taxpayer-guaranteed revenue, RNZ must also retain its most precious commodity: public respect and support. Th...

What Were They Thinking?  RNZ's CEO Paul Thompson (left) and Jim Mather, Chairman of the RNZ Board of Governors, attempt to justify ...

Under Attack:  By sacking not only RNZ Concert’s presenters, but also its producers and librarians, and reducing the station to an automa...