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    Posted: 21 Feb 22 at 7:15pm
Compared to UK and Brazil, find it difficult to sympathise when a country complains about it leaders.
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Influencing editorial opinion goes on all the time between lobby groups, political parties and the media...
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Originally posted by PeterG

Originally posted by A2Z

Don’t know if this is being misrepresented, but alarming if true:
  • Finally and perhaps most important, I'm against the fact that some of our mainstream media have received payment from the New Zealand government conditional on them promoting government policy, propaganda and spin.

I suspect that means govt advertising of covid precautions? Doesn't sound either alarming or surprising.
Yes, if just an advert that is perfectly normal.  If influencing editorial opinion, less good.
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Originally posted by A2Z

Don’t know if this is being misrepresented, but alarming if true:
  • Finally and perhaps most important, I'm against the fact that some of our mainstream media have received payment from the New Zealand government conditional on them promoting government policy, propaganda and spin.

I suspect that means govt advertising of covid precautions? Doesn't sound either alarming or surprising.
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A simple Google search will pull up enough information on the background to this for anyone to come to a balance view on this matter .
Unless that person’s tin foil hat is on too tight lol 
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Wouldn't have thought NZ government paid for nonsense posts about being shot and then say, that person died of covid.
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Originally posted by JimC

Not in the least alarming. Its surely a government's duty to campaign against false propaganda damaging to the welfare of their citizens.
Yes, but bribing a newspaper to take editorial control? Very Chinese if that is actually the case.
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Originally posted by JimC

Not in the least alarming. Its surely a government's duty to campaign against false propaganda damaging to the welfare of their citizens.

They have an interesting way of doing it then. Shoot a man but list him of dieing of a virus. Which version of death is false propaganda then?
https://www.1news.co.nz/2021/11/11/new-lynn-shooting-victim-was-positive-for-covid-19/

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Spot on 
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Not in the least alarming. Its surely a government's duty to campaign against false propaganda damaging to the welfare of their citizens.
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