Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: Members of the Press

Sacha

Tue, 01 Apr 2014 21:37:41 +1300

they oft prefer a liquid diet :)

David Reade

Tue, 01 Apr 2014 15:20:14 +1300

In particular, Justice minister Judith Collins and Broadcasting minister Craig Foss rejected the Commission’s central proposal: that existing media standards bodies – the Broadcasting Standards Authority and the New Zealand Press Council plus the broadcasters’ new online standards spawn, OMSA – should be rolled up into a single, independent cross-media…

Kumara Republic

Sat, 29 Mar 2014 03:53:30 +1300

If the Press Council is toothless, then what about the Commerce Commission?

Rich of Observationz

Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:15:20 +1300

This certainly shows Fairfax and TRN in their true colours. I'm not sure how independent and free of obligations to their news sources holding love-ins with the National party in the venue of one of the Nats favourite pork recipients is.

Geoff Lealand

Thu, 27 Mar 2014 20:12:10 +1300

My experiences with the Press Council is that they are weak as shit when it comes to inflammatory material eg when I registered a complaint about ACT acolyte Garry Mallet running a series of columns fostering race hatred under the guise of a 'Paid Advertisement' in a local community newspaper.…

Moz

Thu, 27 Mar 2014 17:44:26 +1300

The Press Council having more say over where compelled notices of correction/retraction are published is a great development.

That is very good news. Having had that experience, another common one is to put it in a couple of lines at the end of an editorial. Complete waste of time for…

Graham Dunster

Thu, 27 Mar 2014 17:20:26 +1300

Groucho Marx.

Clubs.

'Nuff said?

Matthew Poole

Thu, 27 Mar 2014 14:46:14 +1300

The Press Council having more say over where compelled notices of correction/retraction are published is a great development. No more hiding the retraction in two column inches on A8 below the fold when the original sin was the whole front page.

Sofie Bribiesca

Thu, 27 Mar 2014 14:39:49 +1300

National Inc?

Ha! National Ink.... geddit ;)

lprent

Thu, 27 Mar 2014 14:22:22 +1300

I thought they were all wholly owned subsidaries of National Inc?

Steve Curtis

Thu, 27 Mar 2014 13:40:43 +1300

I thought the Whaleoil blog was a side bar for the Heralds entertainment column.

When you have a large business with substantial assets you have to use unusual methods to get risky stories out there . Especially those involving people with a litigious reputation

Tom Semmens

Thu, 27 Mar 2014 11:26:48 +1300

Question: Is TV3 News the television front end for the Whaleoil blog? If so, where does it fit?

Public Address

Thu, 27 Mar 2014 11:26:48 +1300

Discussion from blog post.