Dr Julie Posetti, a Professor of Journalism at the City University of London, described the growing scandal over editorial bias at the BBC as an “existential crisis”.
She warned: “You cannot have democracy without credible public interest media.”
Democracy relies on citizens making informed choices, and that requires trustworthy journalism. When a public broadcaster like the BBC misrepresents facts, it doesn’t just damage its reputation, it erodes public trust in the media – and democracy itself.
Trust is something the BBC promotes heavily. It is the very thing they would have us believe separates them from competing news sources. A belief they can be trusted is at the heart of their success – which is why the recent scandal is such a big deal: If the BBC can’t be trusted, who can?
Founded in 1922, the British Broadcasting Corporation is one of the world’s oldest and most influential public broadcasters. It has become a global institution – the go-to source of world news for broadcasters around the globe, including New Zealand.
The BBC is the embodiment of public service broadcasting. Funded primarily through a licence fee paid by UK households, it delivers independent, universally accessible content free from commercial or political interference.
Its mission — enshrined in a Royal Charter — is to inform, educate, and entertain. While renowned for its news coverage, the BBC has also produced some of the most iconic television programmes in history. From classic comedies like Monty Python to long-running dramas like Silent Witness, its influence in our living rooms is undeniable.
Broadcasting in over 40 languages, the BBC’s network of 22,000 staff, brings news and entertainment to more than 400 million people in over 240 countries each week.
A governing Board ensures the BBC stays independent from political influence, while remaining accountable to the public. While the Board sets overarching guidelines to ensure content is accurate, impartial, and fair, a dedicated sub-committee monitors whether these editorial standards are being upheld across all BBC output.
The Editorial Guidelines and Standards Committee (EGSC) is comprised of five non-executive directors supported by internal and external expert advisers. It reviews editorial risks, complaints, and compliance trends for the Board, recommending changes to policy or practice, and playing a pivotal role in scrutinising contentious content.
One of the BBC’s most experienced senior journalists, David Grossman, a Chief Correspondent for Newsnight, served as a Senior Editorial Adviser to the EGSC. His brief to support the committee with research, analysis, and oversight of editorial compliance, had a special focus on high-risk controversial cases.
It was in that role that he took particular interest in the BBC’s Panorama documentary about the US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, that screened on 28 October 2024 – a week before the Presidential Election.
It is “Trump: A Second Chance?” that is at the centre of the BBC’s current crisis.
David Grossman not only watched the documentary, but also viewed the featured speech that Donald Trump delivered on January 6, 2021 – the day Congress convened a joint session to count Electoral College votes and supporters stormed Capitol Hill.
He picked up glaring inconsistencies: the BBC documentary entirely omitted the President’s call for a peaceful protest, depicting him instead as inciting violence.
In his report to the EGSC, he described the programme’s editing as “dodgy” and exposed the Panorama scandal.
What the BBC had done was edit Donald Trump’s speech to deliberately imply he’d encouraged his supporters to storm the Capitol: “We’re gonna walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be with you and we fight. We fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not gonna have a country anymore.”
That ‘speech’ clip was then followed by video footage of his supporters marching towards Congress, to create the impression that they’d taken up his ‘call-to-arms’.
What actually happened was quite different.
Donald Trump’s supporters began marching to Capitol Hill before he started speaking.
Fifteen minutes into his address he said, “We’re gonna walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be with you.”
He then said: “And we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women… We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated… I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”
The comments: “and we fight. We fight like hell…” came 54 minutes later, at the end of the speech.
In his report to the EGSC David Grossman highlighted the fact that Panorama had spliced together two clips from separate parts of Donald Trump’s speech to create the impression that he’d said something he did not. In doing so, they materially misled BBC viewers.
When BBC News executives were presented with these facts at a meeting in May, they dismissed the concerns arguing the edit was typical and not misleading.
But as the BBC’s Senior Adviser to the EGSC – a committee specifically established to act as a watchdog to ensure content met editorial guidelines – he strongly disagreed. And, with senior BBC Executives repeatedly dismissing or ignoring the serious editorial breaches he flagged, in mid-2025 he resigned from his role.
Michael Prescott, a former journalist and political editor of the Sunday Times, who served as one of two independent external advisers to the EGSC, was so outraged by the BBC Board’s failure to adequately address the editorial bias identified by David Grossman, that he too stepped down.
Frustrated, he authored the memo to the Board that triggered the crisis that has now engulfed the BBC – as a last-ditch attempt to get them to take matters seriously.
He wrote: “I departed with profound and unresolved concerns about the BBC. Since leaving, I have thought long and hard about what, if anything, to do about this. My conclusion is that these concerns are serious enough for me to draw them to your attention, in your oversight role of the BBC. What follows is a summary of some of the most troubling matters to come before the EGSC during my term.
“My view is that the Executive repeatedly failed to implement measures to resolve highlighted problems, and in many cases simply refused to acknowledge there was an issue at all. Indeed, I would argue that the Executive’s attitude when confronted with evidence of serious and systemic problems is now a systemic problem in itself – meaning the last recourse for action is the Board.
“One of the defences often deployed by the BBC when criticised by external organisations is to claim the evidence presented is mere ‘cherry picking’. This is why David’s reports were so very important: they came from within the BBC and were produced by a very experienced and talented BBC journalist. Yet his findings were still, on the whole, dismissed or ignored, even after EGSC members tried to press home the case for full-blooded action.
“What motivated me to prepare this note is despair at inaction by the BBC Executive when issues come to light. On no other occasion in my professional life have I witnessed what I did at the BBC with regard to how management dealt with (or failed to deal with) serious recurrent problems. My hope is that you may be able to ensure action where the EGSC has not.”
Michael Prescott’s leaked memo not only flagged the misleading edits in the Panorama documentary, but other serious concerns including BBC coverage of Gaza, trans issues, racism framing, and even the accuracy of Verify, the organisation’s “fact-checking” service – all of which had been dismissed or downplayed by the Executive.
Describing the BBC’s internal culture as one of “denial, delusion and defensiveness,” where senior executives hoped problems would simply “go away and no one would find out,” his resignation and whistleblowing memo triggered a governance crisis that has already resulted in two senior BBC resignations – the Director-General, Tim Davie, and the CEO of News Deborah Turness.
The implications of the BBC crisis for New Zealand are serious – as this week’s NZCPR Guest Commentator, award winning journalist and host of Newstalk ZB’s Drive show, Heather du Plessis-Allan, explains:
“The fact that this bias scandal at the BBC has claimed two of the most senior executives there tells you how serious it is. And it’s not just serious for the BBC, it’s serious for basically all the mainstream media outlets in the English-speaking world.
“There are some media organisations out there that are so beyond reproach that other media outlets – like ourselves – will take their content and not re-verify it, because it’s the BBC and we shouldn’t have to re-verify it. And if they’re infected by bias, we all become infected by bias.
“Whether it’s their obvious bias on Gaza, their bias on trans issues, their bias on Trump – which they have been well and truly busted for – their bias becomes everybody else’s bias, because we’re taking their content.”
And that’s a real problem for New Zealand when content produced by our leading news outlets – especially state-owned Television New Zealand and Radio New Zealand – is heavily influenced by the BBC, and, according to Heather, never fact-checked.
In addition to dealing with the Panorama scandal and fallout from maligning the President of the USA – as well as all of the other matters raised in the leaked memo – the BBC has also launched an inquiry into accusations that its coverage of climate change is biased.
For those who understand that human activity is not responsible for global warming, the BBC’s amplification of climate alarmism represents a dangerous escalation. Its influence reverberates globally, pressuring governments to adopt policy agendas that are undermining economic growth and eroding living standards.
Nowhere is this more evident than in New Zealand, where mainstream media echo the BBC’s climate scaremongering with little scrutiny. The result has been a wave of policy decisions that, under the banner of saving the planet, are driving our economic decline.
Meanwhile, the world’s largest economies have rejected this flawed ideology, choosing instead to prioritise growth and prosperity for their citizens.
In his memo, Michael Prescott revealed the BBC coverage of trans issues was a key concern. It turns out that a specialist LGBTQ desk within News had been “captured” by a small group of activists dedicated to keeping all other perspectives off-air by effectively censoring content. By declining to cover any story raising difficult questions about trans issues, they instead opted to drip-feed a constant stream of one-sided stories celebrating the trans experience without balance or objectivity.
This is the sort of newsroom “capture” that in New Zealand has resulted in “Maorification”.
When Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Government established their $55 million Public Interest Journalism Fund in 2021, they deliberately tied funding to a requirement for recipients to establish Maori co-governance structures within their news organisations.
In practice, this meant Labour’s radical He Puapua agenda — aimed at replacing democracy with tribal rule – faced no meaningful media scrutiny when it was forced onto the country without any public mandate whatsoever. And with PIJF funding locked in until 2026, New Zealand’s mainstream media remains largely captured as an echo chamber for the tribal elite.
Let’s be blunt: with on-going concerns about editorial bias and a lack of balance, New Zealand has been starved of credible mainstream journalism for years. And while alternative outlets do a valiant job in fighting for the truth, without a trusted Fourth Estate acting as a public watchdog, New Zealanders are extremely vulnerable to misinformation and political capture – as we saw in the Maori ward referendum results.
The BBC’s crisis serves to remind us that credible media isn’t a luxury – it’s a democratic necessity. We should not have to put up with biased media. Journalism should be independent, impartial, and balanced. Their mission should be to inform citizens, not manipulate them.
Reform cannot come fast enough!
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THIS WEEK’S POLL ASKS:
*Do you trust New Zealand’s mainstream media to report news accurately and without bias?
*Poll comments are posted below.
*All NZCPR poll results can be seen in the Archive.
THIS WEEK’S POLL COMMENTS
| An evident trend to cover Labour & the opposition parties is still apparent. So over the bias of reporting, it’s pathetic. | Paula |
| sooner the better | GORDON |
| FULLY AS POSSIBLE | ROBIN |
| If cost is an issue, they should have thought about that when they spent money embedding manufactured Te Reo names. | Alan |
| Is an absolute necessity | Colin |
| NO, NOT AT ALL!! MSM, IS ALL PROPAGANDA CAN,T LIE IN BED IF THEY TRIED……They get all their orders from the UN,WEF, WHO AND THE ELITE……. | DAVID |
| Since traitor Ardern was in command we have not had credible media at all. In fact there has been, and still is a terrifying bias in our mainstream news. | Bruce |
| Of course, but they won’t be. | martin |
| No. Entertainment, sensationalism and influencing public opinion appear to be the focus of our main stream media. Unbiased editorial and accurate proof seem to be missing. | Gary |
| The Media are profoundly biased towards Left wing politics and Maori Activism!. | Jerry |
| NZ MSM is absolute left, woke, race-biased rubbish. I get my news from other, more honest sources. MSM here sold it’s soul for the PIJF , now bombards us with mindless dribble. | Andrew |
| Not at all, in fact I no longer watch State TV or trust RNZ. | Audrey |
| Nor the right wing alt media which seems dominated by Israeli gatekeepers. | M |
| All mainstream media in New Zealand are left-wing and biased, certainly not trustworthy. I listen mostly to Fox News. | Monica |
| Absolutely NOT! | caren |
| just look at STUFF news, they keep asking for money then today they print that adern is still the most popular /best prime minister this country has ever had, shows the poor standard this country has for reporting news but with aderns slush fund its not surprising no wonder luxon didnt cancel it as the reporters would have had a field day complaining, but they are right he’s got to go asap. | Richard |
| It’s blatantly obvious if you have your brain engaged! | Ian |
| MSM has been bought and paid . Highly biased and pushing a maori/ co-governance view. | George |
| unprintable | Russ |
| Why this Government allows TVNZ1 to run the nightly news in the manner that they do is a scandal. It (the news) always has a left cringe, negative to the government. |The news should be always truthful and impartial. | Mary |
| They are completely manipulated. Constantly only giving the Power narrative, constantly only givng doom and gloom. Ditched my TV 4 yrs ago | Alethea |
| Left bias | Glenn |
| I don’t see balanced reporting anymore. I don’t want someones opinion I want to make up my own mind based on creditable facts. | Alan |
| Emphatically NO, they are tainted by the ‘forty pieces of silver’ they received under the PIJF | Kevin |
| Bias has been obvious for years. | Russ |
| ABSOLUTELY NOT! They would not know the TRUTH if they fell over it!!! Ardern even gave them the power and the cash to continue with this – and it CONTINUES even though she went! WHY OH WHY DO WE LET IT CONTINUE? | Sylvia |
| They are all corrupt | Mark |
| Absolutely not. I am over there brainwashing and ideology. Haven’t watched them for years. Get my information from other reputable sources online | Denise |
| It had become sloppy even before it started to manipulate us, censor, omit and deplatform. | Fiona |
| Not a chance. Letters to the editor are a good way to take the pulse of the nation,any letters against the Labour or Maori point of view are not printed, one must conform to the media’s point of view. | Peter |
| Bought and paid for media. Reporters are trained NOT to report the truth but to report the paid for narrative. The training starts at school as is now in its third generation. | Alan |
| Tend to favour more left wing parties | Edward |
| I stopped watching the TV and reading media propaganda since 2020 .i go to the source for the facts. | Kathy |
| N Z main stream media and TVNZ are left leaning and maori bias. As a lot of us dont bother with their bias news. Can not wait until their funding is finished and why has the coalition not stopped it already. Agree with other comments, sell off tvnz and radio nz. Only left leaners watch or read their properganda. Its disgracefull how they treat the coalition parties especially the leaders. Why are they promoting the evil maori takeover? A blight on New Zealand society. | Kevin |
| WE SEE BIG NEWS MORE OFTEN THRU OUR PC CONNECTION THAT NEVER COME ON TVNZ | Maxwell |
| There have been so many examples of biased reporting especially suited to the Left leaning ideology. This has been more prevalent since Ardern was in control of Governance. | Gifford |
| We have reporters who have grown up in the west and have rejected the foundational values and type of Governing authority that has prospered Nations who have adheered to those value laws and statutes. Two things have happened. The new immigrants want to reproduce that which has destroyed their own countries in their new land. Because that is who they are, their identity. So we have a separate Nation within a Nation. This is greatly assisted by the many people in the west who have rejected those values finding them too non inclusive. For democracy this is the most dangerous enemy, the enemy within. Look no further than what you see happening politically in the greatest republic democracy on earth, Ameica. Built on immigrants who once become Americans. No longer. Look at the 20 million that have walked in ilegally. Look at the democratics ( in name only) that are fighting tooth and nail to keep them all in the country doesn’t matter if they have crimiinal histories as long as your arm. Doesn’t matter if they commit crimes in their adopted countries. They fight to have them stay because they are their voters. England ( This example of BBC ) is gone. France is gone, Germany is gone. But the big traget is America. If they succomb the west is gone and you will see a world totalatarian Government that has only been dreamed of and scoffed at by those who cannot read the signs. | Dene |
| There are very few journalist in the NZ media that are not left leaning. They therefore actively seek report any events that don’t support there own mantra or philosophies. This is made worse by using left biasised sound bites to influence public thinking and socialism. For example why do they all take the side of the Maori radicals when such reporting is so wrong and decisive. And the same applies to the economic management of the Country – Labour Government left an incredible fiscal mess but never do they report positively on how the PM is carefully putting into place strategies to get our books back into the black without massive employment disruption within Government and Businesses. All they commentators ever say is they are too weak or haven’t cut hard enough. What’s its all about is time – nothing happens quickly when you are trying to bring a Country out of bankruptcy!!! Why do they not report the positives so people can see what a great future they can have if we have a profitable economy that allows the Government and businesses to spend on new critical Assets and other that make our lives better. The media in this Country are not smart enough to argue the positive, rather they chase news that’s disruptive and misleading in the context of making NZ a great place to live and work. | Paul |
| MZ MSM has been a mouthpiece for the left now for decades. They have zero credibility and should have all taxpayer funding removed immediately. | John |
| I haven’t trusted NZ media, or BBC Media ever since the Convid scandal. | Sheila |
| The main stream media has historically had a responsibility to the public to inform with ACCURATE unbiased news, stories, investigations & articles, which can be read in confidence that the truth is in hard copy of the printing press or over the Airways or on TV. | Bruce |
| Aaarh the” MAINSTREAM MEDIA CRIMINALS OF NEW ZEALAND” What can one say about them?. This insipid group of frenzied parasites with their gaping maws and hollow eyes. Feeding off the carcass of a once great nation , hastening its demise with a smirk on their flatulent faces. Beehive media scrums of orgasmic proportions as they writhe in ecstasy prodding & poking searching for self gratification . Predators on the prowl ,grooming & slithering their way into peoples lives and minds . Given the breath of life by ARDIRT and her minions . ( the love of money is the root of all evil ). Educated beyond their collective intelligence & beyond redemption. Put them and the purloiners of truth TVNZ , RNZ to the sword, be gone ! we hate you ! you masters of division ,discord and falsehood . Your time is over your days are numbered you have dug your own grave ,good riddance and now– every body just loves a good burying. | GlynJ |
| BBC has been untrustworthy for over 10 years. BBC should be disestablished. | Stewart |
| i noticed this years ago and haven’t read paper since–nor watched nz news on TV. | Alan |
| Not for ten years | Richard l |
| Obviously not! Just glad for the Platform and other NZ alternative media. | Marla |
| Main stream media have been taken captive by delusional liars! Where are the facts! One agenda, one narrative, perpetrators of misinformation! | Dianne |
| Zero Trust in NZ Media. Extremely disappointing and confusing as Why this coalition Government did not repeal the public bribe fund, they clearly have a death wish.Not watched any NZ media in ten years, it’s a joke, not understandable so why would one think its credible. | Sam |
| I simply do not watch – fabricated news and totally not news | tony |
| Media in NZ are rotten to the core! | Andrew |
| Completely biased as research proves. | Gregory |
| Stopped watching MSM years ago especially during elections. Journalistic bias was incredible. No wonder this country struggles to elect a stable government | Lawrie |
| NZ Media is generally copy & paste from overseas sources with very little attempt to validate the information. | Peter |
| I wish I could say yes but I am increasingly sceptical of what we are reading and hearing. It is very sad. I am 90 yrs old and have known/expected better. | Anne |
| Too many white ants in the organisations. | Tony |
| Absolutely no trust in mainstream media. | Clive |
| media have shown repeatedly that they only print what they want the public to hear, not what is actually occurring. | Noel |
| Trust, like respect must be earned. | Richard |
| WITJOUT QUESTION – IF THEY ARE NOT THEN WE ARE A NATION DIVIDED AND A RACIALLY BIASED ALSO. | Suzanne |
| GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED | Suzanne |
| Continuous use of “experts” to push narrative. Signed off at the top. | Tim |
| They are still being paid to report what is anti the current Government as they were supportive of Labour. | Ian |
| Good journalists are routinely hobbled by editorial bias, that results in highly selective coverage of many issues, and no coverage at all of others. | Neville |
| It all started with Jacinda’s handout to media on the promise they would not print derogatory comments about her and the Labour party. | Denis |
| It is terrifying to realise that “news” can be slanted to promote a particular view without any redress | Sandra |
| We don’t listen to main stream media any more, we sort our news else where that we can trust | Di |
| not at all | graeme |
| Have completely ignored TVNZ tv3 stuff, etc for years. My preferred news outlet is Fox, while they aren’t perfect they are more likely to be telling the truth and their investigation journalists actually report the truth not their political bias. | Hugh |
| Mainstream Media make the news. They don’t report it and it’s been that way for years. eg 1 The fuel crisis in the mid 70s. The world was running out of fuel……..eg 2 Never challenging the Hepuapua arrangements and foisting Te Reo onto an uninterested population. | John |
| Before reading this article I recently viewed a tv prime time news item which led as a slanted against President Trump with out emphasizing this known contrary position. | John |
| You must be kidding. | Laurie |
| Our mainstream media is controlled by a definite and deliberate liberal left political influence. | Stephen |
| They need a clean out | Warren |
| I think that President Donald J Trump, by threatening the BBC, has done the Western world a huge favour here, he has brought journalism bias in many countries, including New Zealand out into the open! And, he was right to do so!!! I say, God Bless Donald J Trump! Now, hopefully, we may see some honest journalism here in our MSM. | Valerie |
| The mainstream media are so left wing they don’t even try to hide it anymore. Some have been interviewed and proudly stated they were left wing supporters.. So there you go. | Jo |
| The corruption is rife | Mark |
| No and TVNZ needs selling if anybody is stupid enough to be interested in the purchase. If it relied on subscriptions it would probably fail. | COOKIE |
| we must apply the same rules for all NZers. Maori expect the Crown to honour their interpretation of the Treaty so they must respect the Crown.. | Mike |
| I have not for a long time when the propaganda spewed out of Labours mouths over COVID. I think both TVNZ, Three and RNZ need to go. They keep saying how expert and great their reporters are. Every time, I hear or see a Paper article. I cannot believe they are doing a Titanic, they can’t see it, choose to bury their heads in the sand and how dumb they look. And it has been going on for some time now. | Jackie |
| 20 years ago Yes. In recent years and increasingly, No. Objective unbiased reporting on facts by NZ’s print MSM has been supplanted by (i) subjective and shallow opinion (at best) and (ii) biased untruths that deliberately, falsely and deceitfully pervert the facts (at worst). Public broadcasting excels with Kathryn Ryan (Nine to Noon), Jim Mora (Sunday Morning) and Jesse Mulligan (Mon to Fri Afternoons), all of whom can be counted on to inform with facts and entertain with insightful humour and high-class guests. In contrast, Checkpoint and Morning Report too often ape social media by seeking opinions. | Tony |
| NZ’s main stream media is heavily biased in it’s reporting just like the BBC and other international media outlets have been for many years. Do your own research on matters that count. | Ronnie |
| No way ! | Patricia |
| Not only does the media blatantly lie, the omit facts, thus misleading the public. their dependence on public money, like the “Public Interest Journalism Fund” (what a sick joke, “Public Interest”), more like government propaganda, means they obey the government. They don’t mention important events abroad to cover up the truth, especially anything referring to the fraud of the jab and all other types of jab. I would not trust New Zealand media, nor any other mainstream media tell me the correct time of the day! | peter |
| We no longer watch media for any truthful delivery | Heather |
| Treat the lot of them like cancer – cut them out. | Gordon |
| Heavily Biased and totally against the very Democracy we expect From Our Government | Leo |
| Never watched the news since they blurred posted Parker zipping her top up and claimed she was doing a neo nazi sign and they way they push labour’s and moari so will never watch again | Jake |
| The one sided bias is across Both TVNZ and mainstream Media- This is deplorable and a Independent watchdog should be created by the current Government to expose the Bribery of the previous Government in regards to PIJF | John |
| absolutely not | Gerhard |
| No, and they have not been reliably impartial for decades. I have not turned on television this year. Regrettably, Auckland has not had a newspaper for many years and merely offers an opinion paper which a times vies with the British gutter press. | Peter |
| Its difficult to believe anything that appears in the Media unless confirmed by several other sources. The PIJF is the worst thing to ever happen to journalism in this country albeit closely followed by radicalised journalists fresh out of our maorified Universities. | Bruce |
| MSM pretty much all compromised | Hamish |
| Not since ardern said she was the one source of truth and the media were paid 55mil to lie | Gregor |
| Left wing bias is apparent everywhere in MSM | Rhys |
| I have not seen any TVNZ apology for broadcasting the BBC’s misleading report of the Trump speech — which wrongly shaped my views of him. | Ray |
| Main stream media are hugely left wing biasebiased. It is a form of brain washing with contined repeatability. | Rod |
| stopped believing this rascist woke crap years ago. Govt /tax funding should be pulled from these outlets. Msm is socialist propoganda now, thanks to Adern, has lost all credibility. | Andrew |
| NO! They are liars; they are biased; they have betrayed the people of NZ. They are nothing but paid puppets promoting propaganda. | Joyce |
| A Big No | Anon |
| I haven’t trusted nz main stream.media to give an unbiased report for many years now. The current debacle involving the BBC can be directly related to the nz media. | Peter |
| As you said in the article – the media (journalism) is bought and paid for – hence the lack of reporting on adverse events and deaths from the mRNA injectables. Not wanting to put two and two together about the many well known NZers, sports people and even a politician, dying ‘suddenly’, because it doesn’t fit the govt handout’s narrative. Media were paid so much for advertising that poison, how could they possibly report against it! | Christine |
| Haven’t trusted them for years. Read overseas publications to get a clearer picture – even on NZ. Aussie news has reports from NZ independents that you cannot read here. | Ann |
| The Main Sewage Media in New Zealand have been operating without a Private Sewage Plant Licence for some Years now . We thought that was Illegal here in this Country !!! | Geoff |
| Do not watch/listen to any mainstream NZ media any more | Jim |
| No, I don’t really trust it. | Kate |
| You cant believe a thing nz media report | Barry |
| I can listen to a news clip and the next minute a banner is running with information that is not accurate of what was said 5 minutes earlier. | Jacqui |
| I dont trust NZ STATE RADIO OWN’D AND NZ TV – TOO MUCH MAORI AND TOO MUCH LEFT – BRAIN WASHING Thank Good’nes for NETFIX | Bill |
| Emphatically “No!” I do not trust TVNZ and the rest of the MSM since they took Jacinda ‘Goebbels’ Ardern’s bribe. TVNZ and Radio NZ should be defunded NOW! With all the other news sources available at the click of a mouse, there is no lomger a need for a state funded indoctrinator. | David |
| The uber left-wing bias of our msm is sickening. What is equally sickening is our coalition government’s abject failure to do anything to bring the media back into at least some form of balance. If they act in the way Labour and Willie Jackson did that would be wrong but requiring the msm act and report impartially would be wholly justified. The penalty for failing to be impartial and provide a balanced view should result in the recinding of broadcasting licences. | Doug |
| I have not trusted MSM for years. Why watch “fake news at 6” on TV1? | John |
| RNZ, Listener & TV news are all pro-Maori and critical of other races. Our mother tongue, English, is now so muddled with Maori words, greetings, nouns, that it’s a mish-mash language. By all means, have Maori programmes and English language programmes separately, in pure language forms. And who gave the instruction to drop the recent double-barreled name of our country. We fought for New Zealand our country, not A Aotearoa. Lie john Key trying to change our flag, let’s have a referendum before sneaking a new name to our nation.al identity. We’ve lost our democracy. | r |
| Never will trust them. | Ann |
| No, not for a long time now. We get our news from SKY Australia, Fox and NZ platforms. | Darryl |
| No way. Have not been able to trust the media now for the last 10 years. Lets getr rid of all Government funded media and let people choose where they get their news from. | Janine |
| It appears they have become incapable of winding back their bias so they condemn themselves in my eyes. | Tony |
| its clear their reporting is biased, there is little balance. | Gordon |
| Absolutely No, and sadly will never again. | Geoff |
| It is so consistently appallingly bad that it is almost beyond comprehension! I haven’t read a newspaper in 5 years because of the out and out lies they tell! | Ron |
| RNZ and TVNZ are the worst with Stuff not far behind. The Herald continues its bias and disappointing the Board changes have had zero impact on that news outlet. | John |
| Let the BBC crisis be your wake up call… though I fear it may already be too late. | Andrew |
| No way in the world. They are so corrupt. | Chris |
| Some do, many don’t. | Hugh |
| They repeat reports from Hammas. Like we can trust murderous terrorists! | Marie |
| NO WAY. I stopped watching the indoctrination years ago. | Simon |
| Have lost all trust in NZs mainstream media and glad we have a fast forward button on our Sky remote! | Caroline |
| Mainstream media is staffed by a majority of left leaning journalists and are sympathetic and happy to further the political lefts ideologies and policies. Any challenge to them is attacked with abuse and condemnation. | Will |
| Trust NZ MSM absolutely not. I gave up on the bias and lies 10 years ago. I also take a dim view of anyone who advertises with them and avoid their products. Taxpayer funding of these corrupt propogandists just makes me angry. | Richard |
| Medias left wing leaning prevents the media from making untainted informed information available. I think what happened to Trumps speech happens here all the time. | Peter |
| They have been captured by radicals and oppress and attack all other opinions. Certainly, issues relating to things Maori are nothing short of propaganda and enable the Maori tribal elite to get away with violence and threats of violence. Sadly, the schools and universities all play along with this behaviour. The schools are indoctrinating our children with a corrupt and perverted view of our history. In the classrooms teachers and students often bully any students who disagree with the official line. | Duncan |
| The lie/. We know they lie. They know we know they lie but still they lie. | Grant |
| I do not trust New Zealand main stream media to at all . | Wendy |
| They are horredously biased. | Ronmac |
| Not now. They are so blatantly biased against the middle & mid right | Lindsay |
| So biased, there are 2 sides to everything but they are only showing 2 side! | Ngaire |
| The evidence is so over-whelming that centre left bias is being promoted and therefore unbalanced reporting is the result. | Anon |
| Over many issues they consistently only present one side. | Tracey |
| They are extremely biased and captured by left wing activists. I have given up reading or watching mainstream media as the content is so far from the truth and it makes me feel stupid or else disrespected just reading it or watching it. | Frank |
| Absolutely NOT!!!!!!!!!! | Murray |
| It’s scandalous how our mainstream media promote misinformation at every turn. | Lindsay |
| It is infuriating – there is never a balanced report on anything TV news! | Daphne |
| I don’t only distrust the BBC but all NZ media & especially the ongoing Maorification across All spheres of NZ life & our leftist socialist media whom espouse this nonsense daily via all our TV channels radio & print media. The Gaza saturation is a key point where TV NZ was sourcing most of its nightly lies on Gaza via Al Jazeera owned & controlled by Qatar the chief sponsor of Hamas,the Muslim Brotherhood, the Houthis & Isis. TV NZ is clearly controlled by Jew hating antisemitic liberals favouring the likes of Hamas. | Derek |
| How can they claim authority and demand special consideration from the New Zealand public when they do not pay any tax and yet pick and choose the laws that suit their take over tactics. Access to nature and controls to the environment are in the interests of all New Zealanders and not allowed to be ringfenced by Moari. | John |
| Whatever made you think that any media was accurate and without bias? | Paloma |
| The level of bias is = to if not > than the BBC’s | Boud |
| MSM has been biased for far too long, misinformation on climate and Maorification plus left leaning bias on all matters social. Reform is seriously needed | Brian |
| Paid off corrupt | Greg |
| Obviously biased and not truly representative – no wonder the younger ones in particular never read/listen to real news outlets | Gay |
| as an example, the way it consistently omits or negates items supportive of the ACT Party. | Geoffrey |
| It’s become so biased in the past 5 years that I prefer to listen to anything but mainstream NZ news reports. | Kim |
| Agreed!: Credible media isn’t a luxury – it’s a democratic necessity. However democracy is almost non-existent | N |
| There are too many examples of them not being unbiased reporters to trust them. | Carol |
| For all the reasons in the articles | Colin |
| It has been obvious for years that our media has been hijacked by vested interests of minorities | John |
| YES .. One law for all | kabe |
| Like the BBC, local media are inclined to leave out the important bit | Steve |
| They are obviously biased | Eddie |
| Impossible they are so far to the left why would any one take notice. Also if I wanted to listen to Maori I would listen to the Maori station. Time to stop telling us all what they think we should believe. They are so thick it will be only a matter of time before they close down due to the decline of listeners. A question do they believe their own spin on things or is it being driven from the woke soft c….s that seem to have taken over this country. You have to fall out of a tree to lean | jeff |
| The failure the MSM to provide balanced reporting is one of the key drivers undermining New Zealand’s democracy. The selective and misleading presentation of news despite public distrust is causing dangerous poloisation. | John |
| The media in NZ don’t report both sides of the story so we can make up our minds for ourselves, they give us biased views and expect us to believe in those misrepresentations – it’s outrageous. They all need to be pulled up about this and get back to the grass roots of their jobs! | Deb |
| Not CBC either or US but maybe DT. We need a clear message not fluff nor phoney entertainment channels. | Norman |
| Its just a news reader show – look at me, while I give you my left-wing opinion on the news. I have given up watching TV1 and TV3 news because it is not news at all. all the newsreaders should be “down the road” and replaced by staff who tell the truth and not half-truths. Why has this nonsense gone on for years – when is it going to stop? | Don |
| Must not upset the Maori … They might bite! | kabe |
| I have no faith in the mainstream media of this country. How can you | Murray |
| Then mainstream media is very bias in NZ. It should be fixed properly | Ian |
| Hell No! | Kevin |
| Mainstream media have been bias since labour was in government and the rules have not changed | Ken |
| They open the news in maori & also end it in maori what about us who speak ENGLISH. They NEED being tol NZ is NOT called by any other name & alot of its viewers are ENGLISH speakers. | Cindy |
| they are full of bias | Ian |
| Haven’t for years as its mostly a joke | Phil |
| Our media is now an opinion piece platform, sadly occupied by left wing activists. | Chris |
| Not at all! They have demonstrated bias for many years now. I don’t know how they obtain their overseas news but it is not trustworthy at all and they are surely aware of that fact. The only way to be sure of facts is to obtain the news independently from trusted sources. I have no respect or trust for the main-stream media, local or international.Their bias has been proven over and again. I am surprised at the question being raised at such a late stage | Harvey |
| They copy and paste news articles from other agencies without doing any research of their own. They are particularly anti Israel and Trump and bias positively towards Trans. | Laura |
| They are sickenly bent left. | Leon |
| Since when did we trust them. Have they stopped digging ?? | Henk |
| you have got to be kidding and has been part of the Marxist program for 100 years | Mike |
| Hell NO!! Personally, I’ve not touched mainstream media since 1990 for the very reason that they don’t let the truth get in the way of a good story. | Sherrin |
| There are few media outlets which are NOT biased. Watching a dumb blond spew nonsense from an Orange ogre is amazing. Now this same ogre wants to sue another outlet. Who is the pot and who the kettle? Yes the BBC got it wrong but so too does the orange ogre. The important point is that consumers should regard all media as having bias, The leanings of NZ mainstream media appall me. | Peter |
| Once upon a time The NZ Broadcasting service gave a well balanced non biased news report but since Ardern’s tenure as NZ PM she basically used the NZ Media to promote her propaganda and Maori myths and Te Reo into the news, weather and interviews. | Wayne |
| I won’t even watch anything news related now | Roy |
| Not until the media is out of the radical maori clutches. Unfortunately, that wont happen until June 2026 so nothing is factual, honest or even fair reporting. | Sharron |
| The media have a strong left leaning with no real sense of balance and the companies they work for are financially supported to maintain this view and encourage it | MALCOLM |
| It has been downhill for years. I thought of cancellimg my paper,but would miss the local bits. We have some extremely good commentators in NZ, topping them all for years NZCPR – for which I am eternally grateful. | DICK |
| They display a left wing bias every day, and it is difficult to even open a newspaper these days because you know it will be biased. | William |
| For a long time the obvious bias against the coalition government has been a defining commentary of mistrust. | anthony |
| Definitely not! You only have to look at their biased reporting of Israel’s continuing genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people and our own countries complicity. | Trevor |
| With half a brain you can see right through their bias. Right (Always referred to as Far Right) is always wrong; and any left (even the activism is never Far Left) is always right | David |
| Absolutely not! | Robin |
| Most definitely no as is seen not even weekly, but virtually daily! | Joe |
| I do not trust SOME of them | Trevor |
| No way, never acutely what really happened, especially world news political, climate religion, also with the current local coalition in NZ | Jackey |
| Definitely NO! The bias is to current journalists an exercise in their overt promotion toward their noble heart felt feelings for equity. There are two groups of journalists involved. The older ones who undertake emotional propaganda and the young brigade that are the ones who are propagandised. These young ones have to be loyal to the cause if they want to remain in their jobs. Basically they see those who they think are ripping off society, living the life of Riley and those poor unfortunate souls living a survival type situation at the bottom of the heap. This is not equity and therefore there is the need to keep on stoking the fires of emotional pity. A woke force which cannot be under estimated being a subconscious worry to many people in these current liberal times. | Garry. |
| Mainstream media is the propaganda organ of the tribealists public “servants” and other elitist groups and can be trusted to show only the direction that those groups want us to go. The majority of the 20,000 increase in public servant jobs under labour were in public relations and “advisory” jobs like the teachers councils & MBIE that now provide the copy to the MSM. That is now beyond obvious on listening to all the MSM “news” | Mike |
| They are as crooked as a dog’s hind leg | Bruce |
| There seem to be too many left wing journalists | Allan |
| NZME are paid lackeys of the largely marxist state woke agenda and have repeatedly proven their ongoing creative bias during daily reporting bulletins | wayne |
| Too many examples of reporting left wing bias or what ever is the flavour of the day. | Brian |
| they are as raciest as they could be and made worst by the last government who gave maori duel leadership | adrian |
| This has been my belief for quite some time. | George |
| Absolutely not | Simonne |
| Obviously they should, but they don’t. Mainstream media has been hijacked by the left. When Ardern came out with ” we are the single source of truth ” and the mileage this was given is a prime example. Where was the fact checking there?. They were a bunch if liars. | Dave |
| Apparently TVNZ decided there is no bias in any news items . You can foolsome of the people et etc .As I stopped watching either news especially favouring maori crap, tv channels during the Tooth Fairies disastrous reign , I eargerly await TVNZ s similar demise as TV3 news rubbish. Im sure many advertisers are realising the blatant bias and misrepresentation of facts that deminishers their products believability . Good riddance Mr Dallow . | Ray |
| NZ mainstream media is fed by bias wider than NZ e.g. BBC | Merie |
| ABSOLUTELY NOT!! | Ian |
| They adjust / amend the truth to suit their own Agenda or the outfit they represent and their political beliefs | Neil |
| That’s a big NO from me | Vivienne |
| Absolutely not. MSM bias first became noticeable during Covid when Jacinda claimed and was granted by media the lofty status as the “sole source of truth” and this has continued since her departure. Woke Marxists have no use for the truth and as long as these agencies remain in their grasp we cannot expect anything different. The cost to the country meantime is horrendous. | Geoff |
| The bias in our mainstream media is disgraceful and should be addresses by media bosses forthwith! We are sick and tired of the media trying to brainwash us to their way of thinking. Any decent media should present all sides of an argument rather than pushing their one side. Grow up media bosses. Your day is done. | Barbara |
| Seeing something happening ‘ on the ground’ then reading it’s ‘ altered state’ in the news is alarming & happening here consistantly. | Tricia |
| Its bias to socialism has grown continuously for years. | Walton |
| Totally unbalanced | Barry |
| Not at all. Until they generate there our income with no government or corporate funding. Then I would review my stance. | Greg |
| RNZ Morning Report is disgraceful, aggressive attack dog tactics when interviewing Luxon, simpering patsy questions to Hawkins | Bill |
| I have seen first hand the editing to create a spin they want, not the truth. | Nick |
| no and no | Valda |
| When you support an ideological deception, and decide to believe it, you are in trouble as a human. The BBC saga is a classic – not too different in NZ unfortunately. | Maurice |
| They are a mouthpiece for the globalist agenda. | Janet |
| Not trusted since Philip Sherry was a presenter | steven |
| to the extent that I have not turned on any NZ tv station in the past 3 years. All my news comes from private sources. | Lynton |
| They are all members of the green/labour party | vicki |
| The mainstream press have proven themselves to be extremely biased in their reporting against the current government & have been seen to “carry water” for their favourite left wing parties. I does befuddle me that the National party maintained the Labour bribes, oops I mean payments to prop up these corrupt news organsiation! | john |
| No, No and Hell No!! Gave up watching or reading msm years ago, Biased and racist propagandists the lot of them. | Brenda |
| I thought this question must be a joke because I laughed so hard! | Bryan |
| They are not trustworthy | Ray |
| We need to rid ourselves of RNZ and TVNZ as these are no longer trustworthy or of high calibre. And have not been for a decade or more. | Stephen |
| There appears to be two way’s of reporting one is the fact’s as they are happening or selected fact’s to support an ideology | Alan |
| Most of them are left wing. | Christine |
| not in any way, manner or form. They proved that beyond any doubt during COVID and continue to do so on a daily basis. | andrew |
| not at all | tony |
| Can’t help but wonder if anyone does! | Andy |
| Bias has been getting worse for a number of years, we no longer watch the mainstream media “news” on TV | Roy |
| No, they have their own agenda. | Jay |
| It’s bad enough what the media tells you in there biased reporting But worse, is what they don’t tell you. | Ron |
| mainstream media has shown biased referencing of NZ History for the past 15-20 years only from a Maori perspective while all other perspectives are dismissed or ignored | Wayne |
| NZ MSM has been the left wing propaganda outlet for many years. That’s why a lot of us switch off at 6pm | Keith |
| Left wing biased drongos | Teresa |
| NZ news is left wing and pro Maori biased. It is venal, corrupt and a self serving swamp of lies, dis and misinformation. It’s pontification on human caused climate change is loaded with fictions, enviro commie lies and skewed views. NZ MSM is worthless for truth and loaded with left wing propaganda. | John |
| Absolutely not. Far left bias and all for maorification. Never give any credit to our coalition. Just jump on them with any rediclious negative reporting. Untrustworthy dont bother with their ies and bias anymore. | Allan |
| Stopped watching any main stream media a long time ago. Absolutely no trust in them at all. | Cathy |
| Haven’t trusted for years, a la Ardern | Martyn |
| They are too left leaning and were BOUGHT by the last govt | Lesw |
| and have complained to TVNZ previously | judy |
| Their are always two sides to a story ,but reporters and journalists seem to only spend time on grabbing headlines and not delving really deeply into what is actually happening.i believe this is called sensational reporting just to keep profiles and most times only partially tells the real story | Ken |
| Stopped believing so of them around 2005 declining to all by 2015. Now ZERO ANY media company. Now only independent reports. | Martin |
| Incredibly biased | Roger |
| I use to watch our prime time TV for local and World wide news. The presentations were generally well balanced. After Ardern’s regime influenced the media, news was blatantly biased and racist. I no longer watch or listen to any New Zealand news media. I now miss out on being informed about what is happening in the World. However I would rather not know than be provided with corrupted media reports. | Tom |
| Very biased. Propoganda at its finest | Robbie |
| Certainly not! | Owen |
| That question is a joke, is it not? As if we would trust them. | Allan |
| Absolutely No. | David |
| Almost never hear other side[s] of a story. Almost no investigative journalism. | Tony |
| Left wing bias | Geoff |
| They do not even report a lot of important news, you have to find a lot on line, plus most news outlets are very biased and left leaning | Colin |
| Been flavoured to outlets such as the BBC | Clint |
| The MSM is a cancer. | David |
| Because they have a hidden agenda over most things and its all around control of the people. | Peter |
| Mainstream media is left wing biased. | Kent |
| All main media outlets show similar bias. TV1 has activists in their Political reporting team, completely untrustworthy | Lindsay |
| I have been aware for a little while now the BBC are bias. No, I do not trust the NZ mainstream media and can’t understand why this government continues to tip millions of $$$ into RNZ and TV one when it’s obvious the NZ public are looking elsewhere for reliable news. Isn’t this wasteful spending. | Chris |
| No. Have not trusted them for a long time. | Michael |
| 55 million reasons | Clem |
| They are done! Trust has been gone since the convid hoax! I am dissapointed that NZCPR would speak to Heather du plessis-Allan as a credible journalist! she is hugely bias especially over toxic vaccines that she thinks should be pushed on babies at 6 months! If ZB are an unbiased station, then lets talk at length about the covid scam! the control and complete devastation of our country! All mainstream media is finished including ZB radio! social media is where the truth can be found. | lisa |
| If you take racial issues alone, news outlets, take an adversary tone, slanted against the government. TV One and Three are the main culprits. | Peter |
| Tvnz are absolutely the worst. | Mike |
| They all need a lesson in HONESTY….and as soon as possible. | helen |
| Especially since the COVID era, my trust in BCNZ is permanently eroded. I no longer trust the perspective broadcast and have found alternative sources of reliable information. | Peter |
| Haven’t since 2017 | Vonne |
| It’s been evident for years NZ media has become misleading and bias towards radical political movements both locally and internationally. Give the public the facts not your opinions so that we the people make the correct decisions. | Mike |
| TVNZ, RNZ, ABC, BBC and many other mainstream media organisations have been captured by this liberation theology (woke) ideology. Trump has been condemned for his significant efforts to address the ideology. | John |
| Too many examples of truth being twisted in the principal (Govt owned) media. | Gerry |
| No. The media are just full of self opinionated lefted idiots. | Des |
| Absolutely not. They’ve been corrupted by the PIJF (Public Interest Journalism Fund) until Dec. 2026/. | Tony |
| They have an ingrained far left wing bias……and TDS | John |
| One rule for all! | Roger |
| They are mostly biased towards the left. I’ve cancelled The Post and don’t watch TV1. | Jackie |
| Not since the introduction of the PIJF. | Chris |
| They are blatantly biased!! | Margaret |
| It’s insistence on promoting pro Maori/Samoan/Tongan issues prove it has no right to expect me to trust it. Itis undermining New Zealand’s democracy. | Richard |
| A long overdue article. | Terry |
| Never have. Ever. | Shane |
| They are pathological liars. The same as most politicians. | Barry |
| I haven’t watched them in years as its an insult to my intelligence,with many other outlets you can get news without the extreme left wing bias or maybe we should call it what it is, LIES | wayne |
| Absolutely Not. Covid was the biggest clue as I read academic papers from reputable overseas sources as opposed to the nonsense in our mainstream media, puppets for govt. So we saw the end of objective reporting and any confidence in same. | Chris |
| The government needs to act swiftly to being accountability and balance back to our major news outlets! | Graham |
| I have no trust in them whatsoever. They are manipulating people to accept the narratives of the left as truth. This is happening everywhere. Now only believe in news from social media media platforms, blogs and similars from trusted sources. The left biases in NZ is so severe that I take their messages as being opposed to facts. This has ncludes the air time given to the right and to the left. When labour was in government, the proportion must have been 3 minutes to the right and 7 to the left, with the left always having the last words. One would think that now that the progressives (right wing parties) are in government this woulvbe inverted. But no, labour is still getting double of air time than the full coalition government and they still have the last words. To me the main media has lost completely its credibility. | Lulu |
| NO trust whatsoever. Lying liebour PUPPETS | mike |
| Definately not | Barbara |
| Sovereignty cannot/could not be shared in the age that New Zealand became the property of the English Crown. With the declaration of the British Colony of New Zealand. And our 1st parliament. Was set up. Even worse European and Maori DNA join 66,000 years ago. Sadly Aperahama Kepeti-Edwards would not exist if the Edwards bit hadn’t arrived. Bottom line they broke the law to which they are subjected to. willingly, deliberately and knowingly. The burning question will be will the law act lawfully? Going a long way out of their way to do so, In a european (Russell Games Slayter, at Owens-Illinois) creation fiberglass and motorize vessel. So they add insult or show their ineptitude. By not doing it as their, part ancestors would have. If they had done it. In their time. In a dugout. Using Maori techniques. Not european ones. It just show how far from their ancestors they have strayed. Mind you so have europeans in NZ. Cheers Bob. | Bob |
| Never. …!! | Vic |
| We have not seen unbiased and truthful reporting in this country for a good couple of decades sadly. | Linda |
| One people before the Law. | Brian |
| Haven’t done for many years | George |
| The pijf took care of any trust | Willy |
| All I watch on TV 1 is Country Calendar and the Repair Shop,the news is so far left leaning it’s appalling.Would never watch it. | malcolm |
| MSM bias has been on full display since at least 2020 and likely earlier. The crazy thing is, they just can’t understand why their audience ratings keep going down! The PIJF is still having its negative effect. | Mark |
| But why has the Coalition not taken action on this issue? Why allow constant attack and denigration? This makes no sense. I have written several times to Luxon and Goldsmith. No reply. | Mary |
| did once but no more … left drivers of the worst type | ARTHUR |
| NO, This organisation needs to be Binned, Because the People are so Biased that they are beyond redemption | Noel |
| Absolutely not. The left wing bias of NZ Media is glaringly obvious. Hopefully, the BBC scandal will be a wake up call for the MSM., | GrayWarblerr |
| Absolutely Not, also the one thing the Government said before the election was there would be ENGLISH first in road signs government buildings letter heads and on TV, and that’s a load of S–t nothing as been done and that’s just not good enough and i think they should hurry up and get it done because after all that is what said they would do. | COLIN |
| Our MSM is well past joke status. | Peter |
| Not for many years especially in the past 10 years | Richard |
| One only needs to read any non-mainstream to know that MSN can’t be relied on | Maxine |
| NZ mainstream news has been bias for many years now, they cannot be trusted! | John |
| No – not based on their previous and current track record! And what is being done to change this by the Powers That Be – stuff all! It is imperative that drastic changes are made before the next Election otherwise we will be back to where we were prior to 2023 and it will be our own stupid fault! | Scott |
| Never | Ruth |
| No. The trust is gone. | Lawrence |
| At least it’s easy to see when I’m being lied to. The insertion of mumbo jumbo part maori words is very very annoying -:but it shows who the media management is. | Peter |
| Have decided many moons ago not to watch the NZ News reports. Most of it is rubbish unfortunately. Much US TV news is also rubbsh.. I watch Fox news because they have some humerous reports. | Neville |
| TV 1 6pm news is the worst offender. | Ian |
| Nowhere near. It’s been like that for some years now | Sheila |
| NO!! Not on Trump. Not on trans issues. Not on co-governance. Not on climate alarmism. In face not on anything that really matters. | Juliet |
| Always biased and never fully fact checked. Following a perceived narrative. | Des |
| Mainstream media’s extreme left-wing bias has been blatant for years, and impossible to ignore. | John |
| They couldn’t lie straight in bed | Mick |
| Good work | Errol |
| Stuff,for example, is appallingly biased. A few years ago they made it quite clear they would not publish anything contrary to their dogmatic position, eg on climate change. They are not worth reading. | Andy |
| I have not trusted the MSM for over 5 years. And I stopped listening to TVNZ and RNZ more than 2 years ago , because of their Bias | Peter |
| We have left and right leaning media | Bryan |
| No I won’t even watch TV news or listen to the National programme anymore as they never tell the truth or never even mention overseas crisis like the UK Muslim problems including the PM, the mayors etc or the rest of the European immigrants problems. It’s so PC it’s dangerous! Plus I’m sick to death of Maori views and salad language- so inane and empty of anything but repeated moaning and self pity. | Lynne |
| Media in NZ have been blatantly biased, racist left leaning and give a rose tinted view of what goes on in NZ. They do not provide a balanced view. | Dane |
| You must be kidding. The News Media is controlled. NO WAY | ROB |
| I will never trust TV1 or Stuff news again, I go to other sources for a balanced report. I think they are left leaning and that is not acceptable to me. | Lyn |
| Absolutely not. Donald Trump was right to call MSM ‘fake news.” | Bruce |
| I have long mistrusted the New Zealand media to make true and unbiased reports. The Middle East situation with Israel and Gaza has been and is grossly misrepresented. A great deal of the news is from Hamas sources who obviously want to make Israel look to be the wrongdoer. Also their reporting on the Maori activists are portrayed as being right in their demands etc. Time is well overdue for the Government to put a stop to this left leaning media without delay! The media are ruining this country. | John |
| Mainstream media are a joke. | Simone |
| There is always room for improvement in reporting. We seem to have moved news reporters to Centre where before it was very Left leaning. There is always room for improvement. | Carl |
| The are totally biased and are laughable. | Grant |
| The media are so bias they are just a joke can hardly watch the news any more it has become so leftist and racists | Colleen |
| Not since adern and her lot bought the fourth estate. | Neville |
| Media here is very biased in favour of the left wing agenda. | Denis |
| At this stage, there are few media organisations that I trust to raise questions about bias in New Zealand. | Deirdre |
| I have refused to watch for some time now because it is so horribly biased. | Hilary |
| safe n effective? sons flatmate believed the media barrage- vaxed & boosted- 34 yrs old dropped dead in shower. trust MSM? yeh rite | mark |
| I consume very little of what they produce ever since the pjf was enacted | Warren david |
| no, they spin, lie relentlessly. they will never change and have gone past the point of no return, I believe. | Giles |
| NO, no, no. | Faye |
| Print and the government-owned radio and tv do not present a “balanced” viewpoint. The PIJF is very much responsible for this scenario – the sooner it reaches the end of its time, the better for us all. | Laurence |
| To often they put a left wing slant and also omit the other side of a story. | Gaire |
| Their bias is very obvious if you subscribe to and read independent overseas news sources as distinct from our “main media” and RNZ. | AndyE |
| Racist bullshit is what we get! | Mark |
| they have been corrupt for so long if you still watch them you are Brain Dead or close to it | JIll |
| way left bias | lee |
| The media has been influenced by he Puapua Agendas and their judges. The last Labour Government’s moves to bring in tribal rule without any mandate or consultation with New Zealand people. | June |
| Hell no, its so bad that we haven’t bought a newspaper for years now . I’m sick ofhearing only a left leaning slant on the news and only hearing the maori side of the issues. Where have all the real journalists gone who could really critic a story or an issue. Its going to be a long time before we trust the media again if ever. | Peter |
| Hopelessly biased. | Lee |
| The mainstream media is no longer credible. | John |
| Clear out the lot of them and start from scratch,they operate as arnichists and are devoid of loyalty for NZ. | JOHN |
| They annot lay straight in bed | Bill |
| Have not for years | John |
| They are just reporting, they are pushing their own biased view. This is not news! This is biased propaganda! Where is the good unbiased investigative news we always used to get ? | Robyn |
| I have completely,100% withdrawn from NZ mainstream media. | Dave |
| Absolutely not | Gail |
| The majority of taxpayers do NOT trust the mainstream media and this includes the BSA. Note the salary of Judy Bailey in 2004. Full disclosure of tax funded salaries of RNZ. TVNZ and associated cronies. | eileen |
| Stopped buying the Nz Hearald Nearly four years ago As it got to one eyed | Peter |
| but it’s slowly improving. | Mark |
| More by what they won’t say than what they do say. | Derek |
| Have not trusted NZ mainstream media for a long time. | David |
| Totally biased. When Stuff refuse even to allow dialogue on teh climate debate you know where they stand on open journalism. There are rare exceptions such as Waikanae Watch, but most rags reflect the same attitudes as the BBC. | Andi |
| The cynical left-leaning bias and racial separatist leaning of our ‘mainstream media’ have become so blatant as to be frightening. We cannot progress as a nation with ‘misinformation’ being force fed to us every day. | TOBY |
| Withdraw all funding let them stew if they were with reading or watching they would stand on there own feet like any othe business | Peter |
| No, no, a thousand times no. | Graeme |
| It is full of left wing bias! Just like the BBC. And Australia’s ABC. | David |
| They are finished – lost all credibility. | Jenny |
| I think its the best of three guesses | Warren |
| Main stream media in N.Z. Biased, ideologically captured, PIJF corrupted, unprofessional. When you agree to tell lies to get funding you completely lack integrity. Can’t wait to see the back of you next year when your funding is stopped. I will no longer have to listen to the hubris of your opinion instead of the facts. | Allan |
| There are so many glaring examples of b ias and untruthful items on NZ TV and also the rist comments speech is totally unacceptable. What is the Minister of Broadcasting doing to correct this. Bloody Nothing. | Noel |
| People are turning away from MSM because they are increasingly seen as pushing agendas instead of unbiased reporting. | Peter |
| The left wing MSM peddle their bias and lies without any meaningful analysis or scrutiny | Ihaia |
| I watch TV 3 news only for the NZ content which is still full or racist bias anyway. I rely on Al Jazeera for my world news and must admit that they have a slanted view like most news media but it is very open and you can reject it as you choose., | John |
| There is SOOOO much untruth being broadcast that predictably MANY people are now believing what they are reading/being fed. We are therefore very lucky to have NZCPR to re educate those peoples. Thank you NZCPR. | Brian |
| Certainly not since the PIJF | Geoffrey |
| You’re joking ! | Alan |
| The bias to the Left is obvious and it appears to be across all media, TV and radio included. | Nei |
| The media is left leaning, woke and untrustworthy. As a profession I consider it is in the weeds. | Dr John |
| Over sixty years ago when studying history at Otago the students all agreed with the lecturer when he declared that no media should be funded by governments. | Catherine |
| The media bias has significantly worsened in the past five to 10 years. The coalition administration was aware of this, but has taken no action. Even the public interest journalism fund continues. The Broadcasting Standards Authority is left-leaning. Potentially a media ombudsman is required, although the simple answer is for accurate, unbiased reporting and questioning. | Gavin |
| Just as bad as BBC. GOVT SHOULD HAVE SACKED ALL THE BOARD AND CEO OF TVNZ. | Dave |
| The government should sell RNZ and TVNZ. | Mark |
| Nether Stuff nor NZME can be trusted | John |
| In terms of reporting on New Zealand matters, the mainstream media are unquestionably strongly left-wing and Maori supportive / biased . Their coverage totally lacks objective analysis / scrutiny and balance and provide totally inadequate, if any , coverage of the political centre and politically right views – to the point of being propagandist, if not near activist in their support of both the political left and Maori. | Hugh |
| The media in this country is by and large woke bias and certainly unreliable. Radio NZ and TVNZ are some of the worst offenders, add to that, some media advertising companies and news media outlets. The role of the media is to provide accurate balanced reporting and this has not been occurring for some time now. The government should initially take an active stance by regulating minimum balanced standards for reporting commencing with RNZ and TVNZ. | chris |
| I have been appalled at the lack of impartiality displayed by all the major TV news channels and Radio NZ for over 20 years now and it is affecting how the masses in NZ think nowadays. | Warren |
| No. The NZ Herald is blatantly left wing biased. | Greg |
| NZ’s media push Maori and the new name invented for our country starting with the “A” letter and ending with a small ‘a’. The Press contiunally of late put photos of the two main political leaders in NZ next to each other — the trouble is the national leader is usually depicted with a less than happy expression. In contrast Hipkins has a smiling happier face. Subtle manipulation by the media who appear strongly to support the left. All those who receive funding from what I see as an illegal slush fund set up by the last Govt never use the true name of our country, New Zealand. They signed the dotted line for the easy money, and their right to refer to this ountry by its correct name. | John |
| Is this a trick question? Mainstream media cannot be trusted with anything. Let them rot and go broke. | Scott |
| Ardern bought and paid for the Media, left leaning biased wokesters | Peter |
| definite bias and NO! Not at all. Both Television channels and print media show obvious bias on locals news items. Political Parties and Race are glaring example. I keep tell you “The Country is stuffed” God defend New Zealand. | Bruce |
| No balance at all in the reporting. Tired of the rudeness to our PM and anyone who doesn’t toe their line of thought. | Patsy |
| All state funded media should be immediately scrapped | Derek |
| There is enough evidence of inaccurate, highly biased reporting that has been tossed at us over the last 8-9 years to sink a ship. This needs to be corrected, otherwise, there will be serious trouble in this country before too long. | Grahame |
| The media and left wing commentators like Jack Tame and John Campbell are obviously biassed towards Labour. | Peter |
| There has been obvious political bias since the media was given extra funding, with strings attached, under Jacinta Ardern’s government. It will be interesting to see if there is a change after 2026 when the funding ends. | Lynne |
| Long way too biased – playing upon unthinking ignorance | Gill |
| I haven’t taken any notice of MSM since the Wellington protest. I wish I had woken up earlier. | Murray |
| Since Covid our media have deliberately ignored comments, views and articles that don’t ‘fit’ with the deliberate left wing bias we now have. | Pauline |
| Absolutely not. Their left wing bias shows at every turn. I don’t believe a word they say. We need a media we can trust and which will give balanced reporting. To date they don’t know the meaning of the word. | Helen |
| Because they wish to ruin NZ as much as possible | Greg |
| NZ MSM has been corrupted for years | Terry |
| They have been captured by the PIJF.They have sold their very essence to the point where their opinions are predictable and worthless,with treaty centric and ethnocentric mumbo jumbo always taking the stage to the point where i am sure most of us are fed up with Maorification.please let it stop,along with he Pua Pua,it has no future other than grief and blood shed. | gale |
| If the NZ media parrots bias then they too are liers. They are controlled by Marxist ideology and past redemption, time to shut them down and save the truth from bias. | Rex |
| I have no trust in mainstream media to report objectively without bias. I have not watched television, read newspapers or listened to radio news for ten years. I choose carefully from independent internet news sources. | Donald |
| Whatever happened to”Granny Herald'” Editors were well educated, erudite & balanced. Climate change is a great example. I had to go to “The Straight Furrow” to learn reference points for facts. | DOUGLAS |
| NZ media is all false news and absolutely biased | Richard |
| Pravda under the sun | John |
| Very biased a left leaning | Hylton |
| Leftist bias has rendered the media unbelievable. I haven’t read a newspaper in the last ten years. particularly the NZ Herald. Disgraceful & traitorous! | Marshal |
| NO! | David |
| Corporate media and its “journalists”, along with politicians, the police, judges, lawyers and doctors, is one of the main enemies of civil society. | Andrew |
| We as a Nation cannot just “Let it Be…” | Chris |
| Never again | Kevin |
| 100% no. For sure it is just an echo chamber operating without any crtical thinking. | Collin |
| It has become very clear that there is severe bias in the NZ “bought and paid for” legacy media. So much so that we.never watch the TV any.more. All my news and information comes from trusted on line sources, that is, the sources I have come to trust because their content is factual and thorough. I think it would bea good move for President Trump to also sue the NZ media for the shocking biased way they report. You know that bill Vates has a large handin the training of media personel don’t you. There is that name again. Evil to the core be is. NZ media have developed a far left stance on all issues, and suffer from an overdose of maorification. Blooby sick of it!!! | Neil |
| They are totally left wing, and we’re paying to promote labour | Peter |
| They never tell all leaving out small but important bits that scew stories | Carl |
| Get totally of Apartheid in NZ We are all ONE people! | Rayner |
| It was widely reported that the media was well paid to support Jacinda’s Covid jab mandating program – and if the media reneged on supporting Jacinda the media would have to return any money received from government for Covid promotion. In my world, I saw this as blackmail ! | Stuart |
| All journalists I have read or listened to are in my opinion biased or plain feeding clickbait and lies through their websites and podcasts. | Trevor |
| Not possible at present. Start by disband Ardern’s PIJ Fund which was always about controlling the media. | Andrew |
| Their bias stands out like the proverbial | Peter |
| The problem is that far too many New Zealanders do. | John |
| Definitely not!! | Liz |
| There are always 2 sides to every debate/ story .. the journalists need balanced articles with both sides of the debate NOT there own opinion | Mike |
| The bias from mainstream media is nauseating ! | Liz |
| The not so hidden agenda is a disgrace – generational harm | Peter |
| Self interest agendas always prevail. | Dennis |
| Bias, especially deference to the political left, has been obvious in NZ media for years! | John |
| The moment that the whole NZ mainstream media, whose employees are unfortunately predominantly left-wing, began parroting and endorsing the Labour government narrative and actions during the so called ‘Covid pandemic’ – refusing to even consider that there might be an alternative position, it was over for me. It was tough being labelled a ‘conspiracy theorist’ when all I had were legitimate questions, but my life is better for that now, as I have discovered the joys of independent media, and will never return to the mainstream. | Lola |
| The contamination of reports by the insertion of Te Reo is alone enough to substantiate thus view. | David |
| I have not trusted them scince the election of the trusted one | Rod |
| I simply do not trust our media to be honest. They are very much leftist with socialist views. We hear only abridged and warped views on many issues. We hear nothing of the riots in UK and Ireland or any news that may vary their leftist opinions. | Alan |
| New Zealand mainstream media has been biased for some years, and it is getting progressively worse. | Rod |
| It’s obvious, watch them and listen to them. There’s a more aggressive approach by reporter and news readers toward non Maori than Maori . The use of Te Reo in amongst English doesn’t make any sense other than indoctrinating the public in acceptance of the language. They treat the public like fools when it’s glaringly apparent what’s going on. | Anon |
| With all news, personal Bias comes into reporting whether we like it or not so we need to look beyond the headlines, and papers/news deadlines that have to be filled. every day whether there are mayor events or not. I am more concerned in what is happening politically and in the news in the USA as it will filter down to NZ and is already in Australia | Alan |
| Our mainstream media needs to be held to account immediately by the government. Taxpayers who are funding their distortions and bias should be listened to, and action taken when they call this behaviour out! | mary |
| Unfortunately today’s media are all left fanatics and any opinions that differ from their own we are then classed as a neo nation or racist. The list goes on. Quite frankly NZ is so over these woke ideologies and what does not help in any way is this National Govt that promised so much but has delivered zip. | Mike |
| It’s been obvious for a long time I haven’t watched television news for years Stuff can’t be taken seriously Herald is borderline | Steve |
| The NZ Media is a very one sided woke bunch of unprofessional staff ‘opinionators’. True journalism is missing in action or just dead lazy | RICHard |
| The Media is almost all opinion not the actual facts. This makes reading or listening to The News difficult to decipher fact from fiction. Especially if it has anything to do with politics or the Early Settlers. | Alister |
| Why are they still being funded | Harvey |
| No trust in the mainstream media whatsoever. | Leonard |
| no way in the world, everyday they show their collective bias | john |
| Total leftist bias on display. | Hohepa |
| For every Conspiracy Theorist there is a Scornpiracy Terrorist (MSM mouthpiece). | Robert |
| Beyond far left. | Bruce |
| stating the obvious | Philip |
| I have zero trust in mainstream media in NZ, or anywhere. They’re all controlled narratives from Blackrock or Vanguard | Grant |
| I don’t know how msm newsreaders can live with themselves knowing the editorial bias that is going on in TVNZ and TV3 | Warren |
| I recently cancelled my nz herald subscription because I just got totally sick to death of their biased crap. Appalling. | Susan |
| Dias Political agendas distorts News reporting | Brenda |
| It’s so bad Ive not watched any mainstream news for many years. | Kerian |
| In fact – Hell, No!! | davidf |
| Not at all. Listen to interviews on radio and when they report on the news broadcast they frequently twist words from the interview. Media should not receive government funding!. | Jane |
| The NZ media prostituted themselves to the useless Artdern ‘government’ & they cannot be trusted to be impartial. They are so biased it is unbeleivable & no one that I know trusts them in the slightest. | david |
| Definitely NOT | Frank |
| No way dont even bother watching or even reading stuffs news. its all so biased | michael |
| Certainly don’t trust them at all. This was especially so with their reporting on joint governance etc. The journalism fund created of $50 million certainly was a “bribe” to publish what the government at the time wanted to push on society without any objective reporting. | Keith |
| No as one who has been misquoted many times. | Graeme |
| They have been biased for years. I no longer waste time with NZ MSM. | Anon |
| Once I asked an editor of a NZ newspaper to publish an article about “Man made climate change” which was NOT PC, and she replied: “It’s well written, but if I would publish it, I would lose my job.” | Klaus |
| 100%NO. It is so obvious that msm reporting is so one eyed and has been for some time | Gareth |
| To much BS, Maori BS and JA lovers, bring back Muldoon. | Phil |
| I haven’t trusted NZ mainstream since JA bribed them with her Public Journalism Fund. | Murray |
| Radio NZ IS such a hotbed of unbalance that ahat at news item suggesteing they all took to bicycles would be flooded with requests to wwatch… | Anthony |
| Stop Government waste. Remove Govt funding from the N Z Media. | ed |
| Truth and fair reporting are not on their agenda | David |
| New Zealand media is totally Left Biased! After the C-19 debacle, I have refused to watch or listen to their BS! I therefore DO NOT TRUST any of them. It is the media in this country that determines who will win an election, it is the media that determines what ‘truths’ we hear and from whom. It is time that we taxpayers stopped funding this either through so-called ownership of TVNZ, RNZ etc. They should stand or fall on their own. | Heather |
| One sided, and no independent fact checking | mike |
| The media have been unreliable regarding scrutiny for the truth – for a decade. Covid and the Ardern government only exploited/enabled a generally untrustworthy industry to run amok. There should be better NZ laws in place to regulate media combined with less NZ taxpayer funding. | Andrew |
| huge bias against Israel and thus support for Palestinians ie Hamas | Bruce |
| Too much reporting of minority political parties well out of proportion to their place in our democracy!! | Derek |
| The unbalanced reporting has been extremely bad since beginning of civid and is in all forms of media | David |
| I stopped watching all mainstream news in NZ (apart from Ryan Bridge) when opinion pieces began to be presented as fact during the Ardern/Hipkins era. An often outrageous misrepresentation of the truth, resulting in the erosion of public trust in the NZ media. | Victoria |
| What they are doing is disturbing. | Peter |
| No the whole news media fell apart when they came up with their opinion sections etc. We don’t care about their opinions we just want unbiased reporting. The newsused to be about what has happened that day now it’s just their leftwing political opinions ffs. | Nigel |
| Absolutely NOT – read occasionally purely for entertainment! | Jan |
| Definitely VERY left. | Geoffrey |
| Definitely not! Don’t even watch it these days, it makes me too angry. | Lee |
| If you are a media organisation and get offered $50M by the Government with conditions attached then you forget ethics take the money and write what you are told to write ! | Nev |
| We have stopped watching TV1 news for some time now – because of their bias. | Janette |
| Haven’t trusted them since climate alarmism came into our lives. The Maorification of everything driven by the media bias is ruining our country. | Dave |
| no! no ! no! | Kevin |
| Even when they are supported by funding from the tax-payer, many of their “news” items are hidden behind pay-walls. | alan |
| The evidence is really quite clear. | Fred |
| All media outlets are going to have natural bias. This is true of state organisations just as much as private entities. The claim that state media can be unbiased and objective, even in principle, misses the glaring conflict of interest: the state itself is a partisan actor and not simply an unbiased observer. The PJIF in NZ is a perfect example of how state funding does not (and cannot) create an objective and unbiased outcome. | Graham |
| Haven’t listened since 2017. | jan |
| It is very leftist, and is promoting apartheid and side stepping a democratic process. In short it is subverting democracy with a total absence of public mandate. | Rob |
| Most certainly not its biases are shared with other NZ news media as well. | Catherine |
| I gave up on NZ media from 2020, when they openly prostituted themselves for the Ardern regime. | Trevor |
| They are so skewed to the left it is scandal. | Richard |
| Main stream media has been corrupted for years | Gavin |
| I would like to know why we, the public have to put up with this state of affairs. Is there no-one in these institutions that believe both sides of any story needs to be presented so we can make up our own minds as to who we support in any of these items. | Bev |
| They often fail to report important stories eg people landing on islands without the required permission or allow grossly excessive talk if its against their corporate politics. | Graham |
| NO..for years. Does anyone?! | Matt |
| TVNZ’s 1 news is so blatantly provoking Labour and Greens plus on going Maorification I no longer give it any credence. It’s constant anti coalition harping is tiresome | Will |
| Why not include NZME and the Herald within your considerations | John |
| We no longer listen to RNZ station due to the subjects presented and the use of Te Reo without a translation to English for listeners who do not speak Te Reo | Pauline |
| They are all so Left Wing and Woke.. Don’t bother with any of them.. | don |
| FFS! | Peter |
| More and more bias is being exposed. I now hardly believe or trust anything MSM reports. I take the wait-and-see approach until credible sources expose the real facts. Sell TVNZ and RNZ. | Glenn |
| I take it all with a grain of salt. | Kel |
| They’re bent so far left and so pro Maori biased that they couldn’t report the truth if it hit them in the face. NZ media is just a propaganda machine. | Koreen |
| we now go to Russian TV, RT for the most accurate and comprehensive reports. It is hard to find any viable ‘Western’ source, certainlt not the BBC or CNN. | john |
| The international media are predominately socialists or worse, mirroring local government and all levels of education. | Bruce |
| When the fact checkers are still pushing untruths | chris |
| NO | Wiremu |
| Be honest don’t lie. | Mat |
| Our news coverage is too biased one way. | Julia |
| It’s so far left wing it’s not funny | Ian |
| Never. In no way. Totally not. | Catherine |
| Not for the last 10-15years and its getting worse. Too much social comment and not enough facts. | George |
| Never does and will continue to lose any faith in them. | Hilda |
| They are biased and untrue | Bev |
| Absolutely NO. | John |
| They are way too biased | G |
| *Do you trust New Zealand’s mainstream media to report news accurately and without bias? About as much as I trust politicians. | neil |
| I basically stopped listening to and trusting our main stream media years ago, l now get all my news from independents like this site we are on now. It’s appalling how one eyed our media is today and has done a great deal of damage to this country. | Paul |
| Absolutely not! The mainstream media is so biased I can no longer bear to engage with them. The problem is their appalling bias is influencing New Zealanders to a huge degree, to the point where we risk having Labour, the Greens and the Maori Party governing us after the next election. | David |
| The Coalition has been a huge disappointment in this regard. They knew the media was dreadfully biased but have virtually done nothing about it. They didn’t even axe the PIJF – how bad is that. | Murray |
| There needs to be a proper inquiry into NZ media and some proper guidelines brought in to ensure they produce unbiased reporting, especially around controversial issues, where both sides of the argument should be presented so the public can make up their own mind what to believe. | Penny |
| Do we need a media ombudsman to replace the Broadcasting Standards Authority and the Media Council which are both dreadfully biased to the left? | Hugh |
| I remember seeing stats that showed NZ’s journalists are overwhelmingly radically left wing. And it shows! | Simon |