The role of Radio NZ is propaganda and keepng people ignorant of the things that matter most

New Zealand's “national broadcaster” ignore the most important story on the planet

Their role is to propagandise a world that does not exist any longer and keep people in a state of ignorance and unknowing. 

Seemorerocks

Part of what I do is to monitor the media, especially at what seems to be the end of the earth.

My mind is completely taken up by todays headlines from the Guardian

Scientists shocked by Arctic permafrost thawing 70 years sooner than predicted

An internet search

To find just how the New Zealand media is reporting on this I used both Google and DuckDuckGo and entered this search "Radio New Zealand Greenland Arctic ice melt"

This was the parameter of the seach...

This is what Google through out...

And DuckDuckGo (in the last month)

The print media

The search brought up several articles, mostly from newshub.co.nz  (previously TV3) and stuff.co.nz (The Dominion and the Press with some minor publications)

I have lost all expectation of the print media in this country but at least they do reprint articles from other sources.

Here are some examples.

From stuff.co.nz

From newshub.co.nz

Radio NZ - the national broadcaster

Although one would have thought that somewhere across the two search engines that articles from the national broadcaster, Radio New Zealand might have been thrown up in the search.

First off, I have to point out in a news environment dominated by two organisations as well as television (TVNZ and Newshub) Radio New Zealand is supposed to play the role of a public service broadcaster

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This is what Radio NZ thinks you ought to know about the world around you.



It is all basically a combination of village politics, state propaganda aimed at promoting a government globalist agenda.


For a globalist organisation Radio NZ is extremely parochial. I was told few years ago0 that the official policy line was to publish stories about global warming if they have a parochial,New Zealand angle.

Despite the fact articles about even the Antarctica (and presumably of interest to New Zealandrs) are like hens' teeth and the whole thing has to be linked with a large dose of hopium and "what are we going to do".

So now that the news is all bad - and you have to be a special sort of stupid to think there is anything to 'hope' for except for a vain and unjustified hope that the Paris accord targets are going to be met and thus save capitalist civilisation - Radio NZ is ignoring the whole thing.

Based on what I have observed over the past 8 years I am not in the least surprised that the policy of Radio New Zealand is to black out the most important story on the planet (unless you think that the survival of the species is something of less import than what the village parliament is doing)

They've made a good job of ignoring the whole question and now that the bad news is inescapable they are making an even better job of it!

The last mention (apart from a shameful item from Nine-to-Noon saying that the Antarctic is not melting like the Arctic) is this item - from back in 2016.




All's well in the land of little Hobbits

It would not be an exaggeration in my mind to conclude that RNZ's main role is to propagandise a world that does not exist any longer and to totally ignore the most important stories on the planet and to generally pull the wool over people's eyes and keep them in a state of ignorance and unknowing.