*But* ... the one thing Hipkins ought *not* to lose his leadership role over is stories about his personal life. His private business.

None of us are saints, especially in the eyes of puritan ultra-conservatives and crypto-conservative identi-Moonies. Every one of us has skeletons in the closet that scurrilous muckrakers could dig up as a basis to exclude us from political office.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=358d4088-5010-4c4c-91ba-ecd7538a2ebd

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#podcasts #RNZ #MediaWatch #privacy #MuckRaking #NZPolitics #ChrisHipkins

Mediawatch podcast

A critical look at the New Zealand media.

RNZ
HG warns Western leaders are manufacturing consent for a war on Iran using the same Iraq playbook — media repetition, unverified claims and elite interests. Read: https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2026/03/23/iran-iraq/ 📰⚠️ #Iran #MediaWatch #NoMoreWars
Western leaders are manufacturing consent for the war on Iran using the same playbook as Iraq

The Iraq war is now understood as being based on a seismic lie - the exact same patterns are there to manufacture consent for the war on Iran

Canary

Sad to see history being revised by those in power, steering us in a troubling direction. Surprisingly, CBS (under new ownership) aired a Sunday Morning piece on national parks rewriting history. Apparently that shift hasn’t fully settled yet. Watch here: https://youtu.be/3HSTalQnws0

#HistoryMatters #MediaWatch #NationalParks #Censorship

📰 The FCC’s role is technical. Not editorial. But Carr’s warning has everyone talking. How will this affect the networks and what you watch? Dive into the details 👉🏿 https://tinyurl.com/3hm7a6xk #Trump #FCC #BrendanCarr #MediaWatch #NewsAlert #politics #firstamendment #Journalism #Democracy #Rights 🚨📺

Manchester United have unbelievable plan to avoid Champions League ‘nightmare scenario’

Manchester United, ‘the biggest losers’ of a damaging midweek in which they didn’t even play, have an incredible…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #F365Features #front-page #Homepage #ManchesterUnited #Mediawatch #popular #UK #Uncategorized #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/432864/

MediaWatch: Ma Cecilia Sala è attendibile? https://www.peacelink.it/mediawatch/a/51095.html #MediaWatch
Ma Cecilia Sala è attendibile?

Su Youtube racconta di persone che durante i bombardamenti sarebbero salite sull'ultimo piano dei palazzi per "festeggiare e ridere insieme ai vicini di casa" per la "bomba caduta sull'ufficio della guida suprema che detestavano". Abbiamo fatto delle verifiche con Perplexity e sorge qualche dubbio.

PeaceLink

Cecilia Sala su Youtube racconta di persone che in Iran durante i bombardamenti sarebbero salite sull'ultimo piano dei palazzi per "festeggiare e ridere insieme ai vicini di casa" per la "bomba caduta sull'ufficio della guida suprema che detestavano". Abbiamo fatto delle verifiche con Perplexity e sorge qualche dubbio.

https://www.peacelink.it/mediawatch/a/51095.html

#mediawatch #Iran

Ma Cecilia Sala è attendibile?

Su Youtube racconta di persone che durante i bombardamenti sarebbero salite sull'ultimo piano dei palazzi per "festeggiare e ridere insieme ai vicini di casa" per la "bomba caduta sull'ufficio della guida suprema che detestavano". Abbiamo fatto delle verifiche con Perplexity e sorge qualche dubbio.

PeaceLink
MediaWatch: Iran, la guerra delle bugie https://www.peacelink.it/mediawatch/a/51088.html #MediaWatch
Iran, la guerra delle bugie

Se avevano già nuclearmente "obliterato" l’Iran nel 2025, perché avrebbero dovuto nuovamente bombardarlo nel 2026? O hanno mentito nel 2025 o hanno mentito oggi. Tertium non datur.

PeaceLink

Just caught up with last Sunday's edition of MediaWatch, which surfaced some pretty disgraceful comments about our homeless whānau, in defence of "move-on orders";

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=12ce8006-34c4-490e-b8be-1defeb93f740

As @norightturnnz's excellent piece on this pointed out, move-on orders don't just give the Police the power to arbitrarily evict people from public space, even if they're doing nothing except looking excessively poor. Which is bad enough.

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#podcasts #RNZ #MediaWatch #housing #homelessness #MoveOn

Mediawatch podcast

A critical look at the New Zealand media.

RNZ

How the BBC chose to report on the US and Israeli attack on the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran:

1. It used “dead” instead of “killed,” softening the violence and removing agency.
2. It relied on passive construction, carefully avoiding naming the perpetrators — the United States and Israel.
3. It added “Iran says,” subtly framing the massacre itself as an allegation rather than an established event.

#iran #israel #bbc #news #journalism #Mediawatch #us #trump #genocide #islam