Charlie Mitchell
@comingupcharlie
Oaf
I support free speech but draw the line at comparing posting on twitter to working at a hospital www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
Second part to come, which a certain politician has been helpfully hyping up on my behalf…
Most people would have quietly leaked this text, so I love that Chris Finlayson not only put his name to it but then posed with the text outside the Beehive with a massive grin www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...
‘The establishment tries too hard to stop me dying from preventable breast cancer’ is certainly a novel take on things www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
POV: you just piped up with a sexist comment at a fundraiser and the mayor heard
I’m afraid to say that this goes hard www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
This complaint is ridiculous. The perfect example of throwing rocks then hiding your hand www.mediacouncil.org.nz/rulings/ani-...
We can only hope that something good came from this (that John paid to hire a marquee based on a weather forecast made 18 months ago).
Sending my thoughts and prayers to the North Island, who I suspect must be cleaning up after the massive deluge over the weekend
Bob once complained to the BSA about an episode of The Simpsons that used the word "ass", so I'm not sure I can take this seriously
An Australian breakfast show broadcast live from Timaru a few days ago. The splash on the homepage of the Wall Street Journal right now is a story about American doctors fleeing to Timaru. Is this a psy-op?
This policy announcement about improving the media envisages a future where the front-page of The Dominion Post (sic) has a graph titled “Bara analysis of charts reveals esclusled huner the patterns in the charts chart”
Last week: The media is doing damage control because they're about to cop a big left hook from the Royal Commission. Today: The Royal Commission is so bad it's actually illegal
I must admit I'm surprised at how little the Royal Commission gave to vaccine opponents, some of whom saw this process as the thing that would vindicate them. Can't get much clearer than this.
In some parts of the world, a rich person using their wealth to undermine a media outlet for ideological reasons would be considered a bad thing, but here it is a “masterstroke” archive.ph/kBPiZ
This is the most Wellington boomer thing I have ever seen www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
Christchurch is not a city. Christchurch is a stadium that happens to be surrounded by buildings.
Just pathetic. I hope TVNZ is awarded costs, and Talley's leadership reflects on whether this was a productive use of time and money.
This AI generated video has been viewed 200k times on Facebook since yesterday and has hundreds of comments from people who think it’s real. We are so cooked.
The impressive ‘TOGO’ graffiti that appeared at the top of a hotel in Christchurch has been painted over after more than a decade. End of an era.
This is also misleading. The survey question was not whether the treaty should "feature" in news stories but whether it "applied" to journalism. Most respondents said the treaty was relevant to news stories "in which the treaty is referenced", not just news stories generally, as is stated here.
Some of the information in this book excerpt is either distorted or flat out wrong. According to the survey, 58% of journalists are women, not "two out of every three". The average journalist is 45.8 years old, and they are not "mostly aged in their 20s or 30s" newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/24/j...
This bloke just crashed into my house and keeps chanting ‘miss me yet? miss me yet’? He won’t leave
Couldn’t be more delighted to see this is how giraffes are transported
If you'd told me that a speaker at the Free Speech Union conference would call for banning non-Christian public expressions of faith to an applauding crowd, I would have said yes, obviously that is going to happen newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/10/t...
I don’t think RCR has much of an audience - and it’s a tedious interview that will convert no one - so I don’t think it matters. But it’s a window into the self-congratulatory rage baiting that has come to define VFF as it has lost issue salience.