Not all news journalists are like that. Some news agencies such as ABC News and National Geographic are disciplined in the way they deliver news that is critical to our world.

LOL if I want to listen to bias news I just listen to my husband!

MSM is pathetic....quite obvious even with the biggest elephant in the room....Paid off free taxes for 2 years to tell everyone fabricated stories....

Over the twisted and distorted stories the media tell. No longer watch or believe. The media is controlled and definitely not here for the people.

I do NOT trust mainstream media. They bow to the NWO/UN Globalists! I will not get started as I will go off like a bomb.

Not at all. It seems all news is politicized depending on which paper or TV station is controlled by our media masters.

Journalists are not journalists, they are activists.

Here’s a story, a public company called Polynovo made a Biodegradable Temporising polymer foam matrix (BTM) to treat burns and other deep skin wounds. When the NZ White Island disaster happened and all those people from the cruise ship got badly burned, the survivors were treated with BTM. It is a polymer sheet, kind of like you might find products wrapped in to protect them when they are mailed to you. As a result of it being used in this high profile situation BTM hit the news at the time. This lazy clown of a reporter wrote a report about it. The only word she seems to have read about the product was foam, so she wrote a load of nonsense about the victims being sprayed with foam and then headed her story with a picture of a can of shave cream spray.. Take a truck load of salt with anything you read in the media and do your due diligence before believing anything they say…Edited 11-Jul-22 21:09pm

It’s all Murdoch’s doing.. And it is deliberate..!!Edited 11-Jul-22 20:51pm

It is so important to get your information from many different sources and make your informed opinion. Nobody is holding these fear mongers to account, especially the media and politicians. And social media makes the fake news spread like a virus..he he

media unfortunately is very biased/selective of what they report & when they do it is very biased in my humble opinion

I don't think there are many people who fully trust the media today, which is a shame because we should be able to trust them to deliver the truth. I started to notice it in my local newspaper some years ago when the editorial became an opinion. I wrote to the editor telling her while she was welcome to have an opinion she should at least announce that it is an opinion and not an editorial. I don't think she was able to tell the difference. The Channel 9 reporting of the Covid virus annoyed me so much I made a formal complaint of dishonesty. They claimed Covid cases had exploded and the hospital system was collapsing, all highly exaggerated and hysterical claims. If there has to be truth in advertising by law why not truth in reporting? I fact check everything I hear, and most of what I hear is rubbish. The ABC is the worst and I prefer the BBC but even it likes to exaggerate climate change claims. Neither ever seems to get an opinion from anyone with a differing view. People talk about the lies told by communist regimes but we are spun lies as well but no-one seems to care enough to make the media tell the truth. How many people do make a complaint when they hear a lie being told or spread by the media?

The Guardian is perhaps the only exception.

It is good to hear other opinion but keep for yourself what you think.

Can't believe a word what the media print. Not trustworthy.

not trustworthy...lots of clickbait and grossly over exaggerated storylines

Not very trustworthy at all, very seldom watch the news on TV had hardly ever read it in print. They should be held accountable.

There was a time when news was reported, now they make the news, The news is always bias and not always factual.

They won't shut up because they want you to see things from their point of view - they lie and exaggerate because they want to grab people's attention and the more they do the higher they will go and the more they will get paid. I stopped reading newspapers and listening to certain news programmes ages ago because I certainly don't trust them to be real and truthful.

our media over the years have always displayed dishonesty out there to catch people's attention and all they like to promote is bad and ugly information, Not once they can report something more, useful, that happens in reality to real people.

There is not one journalist whose abilities I trust nowadays to give information without editorialising with extreme bias.

Journalists Do not report the facts, but their own slant on how they see it

There is no honesty in Australian ??journalism??? anymore. ABC = ALP, against its charter therefore why give taxpayer money. Sky News = Liberal Party.Edited 11-Jul-22 17:20pm

We don't HAVE independent journalism now. We have to settle for Scomo's mate #MurdochGutterMedia If we stop buying his papers and watching any of his Media, then we may see some changes. While they're making money hand over fist, they won't stop. Yes, I am passionate about this subject. It's why we have so many ill-informed people in Australia. Get your News from independent sources like The West report with Michael West on YouTube

I agree. In China, Russia and a few other places you read what the state run media wants you to read. In the western world, the media is run by moguls pushing their own agenda. Not too much difference and very dangerous. The media should be non political and unbiased. FAT CHANCE!

Fake news is an issue and we can't believe every thing we read. It is one view, one opinion. Yes we live with freedom of speech so therefore we will have these issues. I do however prefer it this way or else we would be hoodwinked into believing what ever the government wants us to believe in. I want to form my own opinion, believe in what I want to believe in. With the fake news, read it and form your own opinion. Stop reading it if it isn't any good or you don't believe it is worthy of being read. You have a choice because we have freedom.

You are right. Someone owns/has Media and Media has us. He who pays orders the music. No secret most of us have very limited trust for Media.

Lots of drama and I think social media is making it worse.

sometimes true but generally we can trust the fourth estate

Sorry. ??

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Media/ newspapers have never been trustworthy, and more so now when Murdoch owns every paper in SA and 70% of all the newspapers in every other state. Oh and I forgot he also owns both major parties.

without doubt the media often distort the truth to meet their own ends

So over the media they sensationalise everything ??

MOST OF THE MEDIA IS OWNED BY RIGHT WING BIASED MURDOCH.

Can't trust the media...

The secular media these days are so dumb and lazy. They don't check all of their sources and report what's the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Just pushing the globalisation agenda - paid for by the elite 1%

The news is about deaths from Covid, I would like to know how many deaths from Covid were from people who smoke. Covid affects the lungs, if your lungs are not in good condition then how would your body fight covid ? Why dont we get these statistics ? Maybe more people would give up smoking .

When you find out who owns the papers and media corporations, then you truly see how corrupt the media is. They're all propagandists and I don't think they've ever published the real truth. It's the best way to persuade people in democratic countries to give up their rights and freedoms whether for a pandemic or to support a war...Edited 11-Jul-22 19:30pm

Follow the money

So true. Head lines to sell papers and when you read the story it is quite different to the headline. We should only publish GOOD NEWS!!!!!

Spot on Zing, privately-owned media serves the agenda of their masters but it seems even state-owned media personalities became biased and full of themselves.

I agree I think a lot of times we are misled and dont tell the whole truth

I noticed a lot of propaganda when covid hit. NZ was late with the vaccinations and all over the world they had had second, third and fourth waves for some countries. We were told if we got vaccinated we would be protected from further waves and be able to open up our country and go into a new pandemic management system. Media has been naming and shaming doctors, nurses and other well qualified individuals for refusing to vaccinate or helping people get around vaccination requirement. We were told that high vaccination rates were required to open up to the rest of the world and avoid lockdowns. The funny thing is, I had to look at international news sources to read about sequential covid waves though high vaccination rates were achieved in those countries overseas because not a lot of this was published in NZ during the vaccine push. Anyway, I think it's intriguing that after achieving a high vaccination rate almost a year ago, we have had several waves of covid, the death toll is still too high and recently our media is now telling us that we may need to go into lockdowns again to ease our hospitals... Even though this was happening to other countries with high vaccination rates last year and even before that. Go figure.Edited 11-Jul-22 13:08pm

Well it is like this the Commercial Media has no responsibility to report honestly they are responsible to report as their Editors Instruct them which in all cases is to sell advertising in that institutions business. What you refer to as Selective or Biased the views or judgment of these Journalists is actually Opinion Pieces not news which can be very hard to recognize as they appear as the rest of the news articles but the reporter should be a give away as they have their own agendas and are employed to say what their employer wants them to say. For instance Peta Credland will say that there should be full employment as there are more jobs being advertised than there are unemployed people to fill them. What she fails to comprehend or choses to ignore is that they require you to move to an area where there is no housing and it is hard work that breaks people so those who do some of these jobs need to be young fit and not know their rights as they can not then be underpaid or Sexually Harrased while working. There is only only one bit of Media that By Law has to Report Honestly as they are legislated to do so by Federal Government Legislation and that is the ABC which is used in the country for honest reliable information of what is actually going on. Here I buy the Courier Mail and Australian and compare them to the ABC. The Courier Mail end up on top of the garden under mulch as that is all that they are good for and even then the data in them makes it debatable that they will actually prevent weeds growing up through them so I put a lot of Sugarcane Mulch over the top to stop the weeds. Good for about 2 years before I have to repeat the process. The Commercial Media covers their Backsides by putting Opinion Comments in which appears identical to news and when they claim to have Respected Reporters that just means that their Opinions are considered as useful by the majority of those who use that Outlet. I remember a piece in the Australian a year or two ago that honestly reported Climate Change and showed instances that could be directly linked to it and the Letters tot he Editor where full of vitriol about the articles all saying this is not what I but this paper for. The Commercial Media grooms it's customers like a Pedophile Grooms Children and when they have done their job they have brainwashed those people and have customers for life who see opinion pieces as Fact and fact as False News or as Trump would say Alternative Facts which are untrue.

just beileve what you want Most of it is just entertainment

Spot on Zing. Even the weather is different on the TV news

I totally agree with you.

Agree with Zing.

If you believed everything hat is said in the media, you wouldn't, honestly, believe anything that was said.

I think it's fun trying to weed out the untruths, but I've got a lot of time on my hands.

I see posts like this in various places and it just shows me more and more people are finally waking up,I say continue to let them run their biases and made up stories,it means even more people will realise whats really going on

The media only has control if it's in bed with the Government. Governments generally don't want the public to think too much about what is going on, so the media only reports stuff this is either diverting attention away from the real issues or is what suits their core reader/viewing base. So we get a jumble of true information and misinformation. It's then up to us to decipher which is which, of course, that's almost impossible.

Unfortunately in Australia the majority of the media is Foreign Owned or it is hard to find out exactly who owns what. What used to be called News Ltd. was an Australian company it is now majority owned by Foreigners and it almost controls all the print Media outside Melbourne and Sydney. The only other Print Media - based in Sysney - makes their Print Newspapers so expensive it is almost as if they have some sort of agreement with New Corp/International - or whatever News Ltd is now called - to leave the rest of Australia to them. This means the Public only get the biased, politically foreign influenced views. and that is a Disaster for our Democracy - no matter how flawed that Democracy is. At least we do have SBS and the ABC - neither are perfect but at least we get some alternative views and infinitely more accurate and less biased information.

The news media is all about influencing the masses not reporting the news most of what is reported is not fact but some reporters interpretation of the facts, take TVone in New Zealand they get all their news from CNN the most lying lot of reporters out there and they try and present it as fact, I get most of my news from Fox at least they appear to be believable.

They are told what to write and what not to write. The government only wants us to hear about their agenda and no other opinions are given a chance to have their say.Edited 11-Jul-22 11:53am

The NZ media are all told what to print by the current government who are trying to hide what they are really up to!

The reporters should check their facts first. I had an Aunt and U ncle celebrate their 70th anniversary and the majority of the story that was written in the paper was wrong!

What do they say…..never let the truth get in the way of a good story…..lol

Wastes honest peoples time. The average person wants to be given the facts about every day affairs not other peoples personal opinions or insights

All that fake news - Jennifer Aniston baby bump! - sells. If there are no exciting news stories that will sell then overdramatise something petty.

Why, What, When, Were, Who & How the questions a journalist needs to ask, not be a trained monkey, reading from a piece of paper. The key is that the vast majority of the human race has turned into Fish, Emus & Sheep, hopefully, soon the human race will wake up, before its to late.Edited 11-Jul-22 09:58am

I agree with you, everyone seems to have their own agenda and their points of view to push down our throats, it will come back to bite them as already the pleading ads are their for people to subscribe to sites or the printed junk as well.

The only publish part of the story and more often in a biased way. Hard to believe anything from the media both written and broadcast. Even aunty ABC getting itself in to trouble

they are all dishonest only what they wont you to belive even the pictures look doctored

No i don't belive in the media no more. A job of a journalist is do as they boss made to say not they want. From day one they nevet had the truth this journalist as the boss will tell what is truths.

It depends on the company

all about the mighty dollar, how long since you have seen a good news story on the front page, always thought politics and media were taught in the same school,

The media in general have never been trustworthy but! it is happening more and more nowadays. I agree with you Zing.

It's happening all over the world. It's who can get away with the biggest lie no matter who it hurts. It happens in all parts of life these days, not only in the news. Honesty is a thing of the past.

I agree, there is no honest news any more, part of the issue in NZ is that government are paying media to say what govt wants the people to hear, not always the truth, and also they are paid to not report also

Media is media like it’s always been. Not everything is ?? in life. Get over it.

What do you expect when the Governments lead by example with constant lies.

Even magazines have told lies. Eg. Chris Brown (vet) having a baby with Fifi. Just to get you to buy the magazine

Well put Zing. I agree entirely.

Media today not honest and trustworthy.

well one has to use your own mind

Pretty much that's what its all about. Journalist opinions.

Are you saying, 'dont believe everything you read'? Wow, never heard that advice before!

I have specific go-to media outlets to find out truthful information

Here here

It's not news any more - just sensationalist rubbish.

Seems to be happening a lot these days. A general trend is to pump one story to us over and over whilst something else is happening behind the scenes. Why is it we keep hearing about the deaths from covid but nothing about the deaths from reaction to the vaccine itself?Edited 11-Jul-22 07:12am

It is our own fault. We used to be able to think for ourselves and research what we want to know, but not anymore. I think we really have more in common than people think. We all want our families to be safe and be able to feed our families.

Agree news are biased these days. Just gotta look at covid reports etc, how much is controlled by govt, to scare the public into doing what the govt wants!

Mainly they are honest but unfortunately there are those that twist the facts to create a story

Just like these stupid gossip magazines, how people can believe what they write is true, is beyond me. Just a waste of your money.

The lying begins with newsreaders being called journalists.....

It depends on the source.

I think sometime the media tells the truth and sometime the media don't tell the truth.

I don't believe anything the media says. I take note then wait to see what happens. Who ever is right or closer see to right several times, I tend to pay closer attention to what they say. My opinion...they are all sensored and they all lie. Some more than others.

there is so much to be said or talked about most is faked or so badly distorted no one knows what real or not i feel like sometimes the people who write the news just like to talk and get paid even if they speak on things thats not true

As TRUMP said "THE FAKE NEWS". Idiot journos get their political party elected. How is Biden working out for the world?

Its not just the media that is dishonest and lies, sadly its our medical system, education system, big business, they all collude, its sadly the old divide and conquer, where you can divide a people you an create conflict and therefore distract form the real issue at hand, the leaders, media and businessEdited 11-Jul-22 02:11am

You can not believe anything you hear here. One station says one thing. The next station says something completely different.

So much of it is for the shock value, sometimes it’s not even about recent events, so it’s ‘old’ news!?!

How trustworthy is the MEDIA - today? About as trustworthy as the "average citizen" in any "free" country (HAHA). The MEDIA mirrors society - society is troubled, the MEDIA is troubled. Everybody and all business entities have a hidden agenda (aka being bias)!

News has always been biased.