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The cover story in YW, the weekend magazine of the DominionPost, The Press and Waikato Times, today is an interview with Jenny Lynch (my wife) on her memoir “Under the Covers”. Here is a link to the story: https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/life/300040872/the-womans-weekly-a-trusted-friend-in-sensible-shoes
The latest readership survey shows New Zealand newspapers are very good at reporting other people’s bad news but not their own.
Last September the New Zealand Herald bragged that its Nielsen readership statistics had “soared to record levels” and this year ran an extensive story about NZME titles increasing readership in the February Nielsen survey, which it claimed was “highlighting Kiwis’ love affair with print”.
Last week Nielsen released its latest survey. It received no coverage in the Herald or in the Waikato Times or in the Dominion Post or in The Press or in the Otago Daily Times. Continue reading “[Don’t] read all about it!”
UPDATED: White Knight News has become Knightly Views. Nothing changes but the name – a move made necessary by unfortunate associations. The old URL will still bring you to the site but please amend saved links to www.knightlyviews.com
Knightlyviews.com emphatically has no connection with any white supremacist organisation and utterly rejects any the doctrines of hate to which they adhere. The knight image envisaged here is a chivalrous champion and one prepared to ride to the rescue of (in this context) journalism and the principles for which it stands.
The current image depicts a knight slaying a dragon. The previous knightly image on the banner was the white knight from the Lewis chess pieces, carved from walrus ivory in the late 12th or early 13th century (probably in Trondheim, Norway). Such a shame that his good name has been sullied by bigots.
I have always despised white supremacists and now it’s personal.
Their misappropriation of symbols and language has hit me right in the website.
When I started whiteknightnews.com I drew on the subtitle of a book I had written about alternatives to traditional media ownership as ways of sustaining journalism. That book was called Trust Ownership and the Future of News: Media moguls and white knights. I don’t need to tell you about the media moguls, but the white knights were the people who were prepared to ride to the rescue of journalism. Continue reading “A victim of white supremacists”
