It is heartening to hear some open discussion about the established disinformation brigade.

@skaxman99

Жыл бұрын

Agreed!

@The-Real-Ando

Жыл бұрын

Where is the discussion? You all agree with each other, hilarious that you think that there even is a discussion. When the heck was Chris trotter last in a University to be able to make that completely categorical statement. It’s just wordsalad with no basis apart from that he is talking.

You've hit the nail on the head with the universities. I'm currently studying as a mature student at Waikato University - its is unbelievably woke and if you don't agree with the "current agenda' being push through the campus then you are ignored and demonised.

@kerrymouse7747

Жыл бұрын

Yep. My views as a 55 year old are out of kilter with even those that are closer to my age than millenials

@scottlewisparsons9551

Жыл бұрын

As far back as I can remember, maybe fifty years, universities have always been a breeding ground for communism and left wing loonies.

@dpcam1243

Жыл бұрын

the unis rely on the idealism and naivete of the young.

@robinfox4440

10 ай бұрын

I've thought about returning to study but one visit to the Victoria University campus made me terrified of the thought.

@StGammon77

10 ай бұрын

Oh my God, so much for diversity

We desperately need laws to protect publicly funded media outlets from becoming Propaganda arms for the incumbent government - its vital in functioning democracy

@marjorieesteakley1982

Жыл бұрын

Critical to repeal the Smith Mundt Act and Smith Mundt Modernization Act.

@valeriehughes1008

Жыл бұрын

So correct - this is what MSM in NZ has become - spin merchants for Labour politics. We must always have a free press - it is a very important democratic right for us all.

@markbenge7288

Жыл бұрын

If they take the money, then won’t the others point that out to the public? Do we really need more laws? 🇳🇿NZ

@markir9

Жыл бұрын

I agree. However, I also think - sadly - that the MSM were falling over themselves to support the Government's narrative even w/o $55 million.

@fredjones9750

Жыл бұрын

​@@valeriehughes1008 I think all nz governments do it. If national get elected expect to see hosking henry and Co back on your screens.

The neutrality rating might suggest your audience is brilliantly well balanced as well

@skaxman99

Жыл бұрын

Yes I reckon. Always been on the 'left' but politically homeless now...act looking good...There are probably just as many labour and nat voters listening to the platform. Be cool to know.

@southpacific222

Жыл бұрын

​@Skaxman Yep, I'm the same as you.

@valeriehughes1008

Жыл бұрын

@@skaxman99 I have many Nat friends who are looking at ACT - they consider Seymour more decisive than Luxton. Many of my Labour friends who would never vote National...just because they never will! They won't vote ACT either but have determined to give Winston a go again... he cuts through all the so called "cultural war" rubbish that the old school Labour hate, Winston talks their straight talk language. I see both ACT and NZF will be surprise winners at the next election because of Labour votes realigning themselves and National supporters doing likewise.

@skaxman99

Жыл бұрын

@@valeriehughes1008 Wow thats so interesting about the old labour and nzf coming through again. I dont think id vote national and dont think i ever would but act and nzf look good too. I dont think id ever vote labour again as the culture war is so wrong IMO about identity and our superficial features which is disappointing to me as a kiwi who has a big mix of lots of cultures but never lives or lived my life through the lens of my race/identity. The only way for liberals like me to come back to labour is for them to ditch their obsession with identity all together.

@wilhelmbittrich88

Жыл бұрын

@@valeriehughes1008 ACT is by far the best party to vote for right now. Personally, I'm not a centrist voter, National are trying too hard to appeal to the center and that's boring. You get no clear answers or vision by the centrist Labour/National Parties. I've been a NZF voter for the last ten-ish years since I was able to vote, but I'm definitely switching to ACT now. ACT is the smarter vote and they need all the seats at the table they can get so they can make fundamental difference in the way our next government is formed. Seymour is much smarter than Luxon and if they are able to form a government, Seymour will be able to push Luxon hard into doing a deal which favours ACT Party policy. ACT is the smarter vote.

The Platform is like an oasis in a media desert.

Well done Sean... great you are being recognised for the work you do.... we are grateful for your balanced reports without bias! Keep up your good work!

@5150show

Жыл бұрын

Yep

@tiatamara11

8 ай бұрын

He is hegelian our Sean hehe....each to their own....I would be too if I owned the Platform.

i stopped believing the fourth estate about 15 years ago. Having lived overseas for almost a decade couldn't believe the change in attitudes and culture that occurred. Still feel like a foreigner in my own country.

@paulthomson2288

Жыл бұрын

@@valeriehughes1008 yep...everyone behaves like a spoiled toddler and blames everyone else for their bad attitude, mass failings and irresponsibility. People need to grow up into adults but that is actively discouraged by government and education system.

Well done Sean !

@deborahsmith8871

Жыл бұрын

Great to hear two intelligent well informed people having a calm logic discussion. (wouldn't happen with msm 'journalists')

Being gaslit😅,what a joke we have been lied to!

@sjg99999

Жыл бұрын

I've lost over 100 friends for trying to enlighten them was mistaken as foreign culture dominance...

@antsbantsb8430

Жыл бұрын

@@sjg99999 were they even worth it given their stance now?

Free, open, and unfettered discussion, goodness it's so refreshing.

@billhanna8838

Жыл бұрын

& Hipkins drinks Bud Light

@skaxman99

Жыл бұрын

Yes, so great to have this here in NZ!

@davidmccormick3742

Ай бұрын

@@billhanna8838But Hipkins would look 👀 very nice in a Red mini skirt fishnet stockings & high heels 😀 Regards Dave McC

So Jenna Lynch said "Oh FFS!" when Sean asked "what is a woman?"

@Eohippus100

Жыл бұрын

Until she can debate better than FFS, don't read anything she writes. Boycott "Stuff"

@philodonoghue3062

Жыл бұрын

She also described Sean as “the fringe media”. 😂😂😂

@fredjones9750

Жыл бұрын

​@@Eohippus100 to my eyes stuff reads like a school newspaper that kids worked on as a project for ncea credits. It's embarrassing.

@wilhelmbittrich88

Жыл бұрын

@@philodonoghue3062 Anything slightly out of balance with the mainstream is considered "fringe media" (apparently)

Hi Sean, Congratulations on winning the neutrality award - Love listening to all the hosts, great team

We need to move from woke to wake... to have a world where discussion and debate is encouraged.

@brucegibbins3792

5 ай бұрын

Woke actually came from awake being aware of social injustice and has it's origins in African American culture. A slang term. Now though conveniently repurposed as a slite or a derogatory term to describe liberal views. So prevalent now in this country's media lexicon with its generally limited vocabulary and child like excitement to have themselves heard their personal opinions passed off as truths that woke is a utility buzz word. Woke's Originall meaning as been now subsumed in a rush of conservatism and discomfort in other folks opinions. In the peculiar world of today, the human rights movement of the 1960s and 70s would likely to have been thought of as being woke and certainly by the media's talking heads in more recent times. Since he made an appearance in the print media some decades past, Chris Trotters views have been well thought out, middle ground and where good sense has often calmed a turgid sea of sometimes hysterical discourse. A society being a place for all peoples, the outlayers and boundary riders would have him emasculated, being drowned in a pool of mediocrity where entrenched opinions are never challenged. The bitter pill of truth Sugar coated to make the going easier to swallow. True things need oxygen to gain support this is helped along by media explaining more than offering personal political views on how to think and often occompanied with name calling slang terms more commonly heard where ignorance and poorly formed opinions have their gestation. The world's great orators and thinkers impart their truths without hysteria and hyperbole.. It's still early days for The Platform and so it is of interest to see how The Platform develops over time. They've identified a place for themselves among the media landscape and in that are doing a pretty good job. I'm unsure how it's current soapbox or town square identity wil continue undiluted but it deserves a chance to continue its nessesery point of difference where it's prime competitor appears to be the commercial free National Radio where once Mr Plunket was once an employee. There is an alarm click radio close by set to Mr Plunket's nemesis he derisively refers to as "Red Radio" although in all the years that I've been tuned into this station I can honestly say that I've never has cause to believe there is any conection there with communism, perhaps Rural Report needs to be investigated- there's bound to be communist subversives hiding under the bed there planning a peasants revolt. The Platforms onto it so there is still some hope left for our country. The Motu is, for the moment, safe enough. I think you'll find that the folks Sean Plunket gaslights for special attention where Sean can unleashes his vitriol are mostly doing and saying what they do in support of a legitimate point of view. These folks are not rubes, but instead intelligent and articulate people. The Platform allows them a place to be further heard. So that's nice, eh. But in truth, these folks have been invited onto the killing floor where their positions are challenged not by skill, but with the ambitions of a spider catching a fly. Yet seemingly few are shaken, instead maintain decorum in the face of a breathless interigation interview style. Fair dues, most appear to press on with their response in spite of it all. Most likely to have been media trained - thank goodness for that. Who needs a sh*t fight on The Platform.

Great interview. Please bring him back - often!

We are watching moral decline!

I will tell you this much for free; Evil hides in plain sight lol 😆

Excellent bit of journalism, & very thought-provoking - The neutrality rating is apt and well-deserved, btw - Keep up the good work!

Well done Sean the public deserve the truth , from scotland

Outstanding and so heartening to hear great discussion around troubling issues. Bravo. Huge ups to Chris Trotter as someone on the left in touch with reality.

McNulty may at last have opened the debate about 3 waters and what the "Treaty" means, but in the wrong order, The debate should have taken place BEFORE it was foisted on the people and pushed through Parliament at first by stealth, and then rammed through against the opposition from the Public. REPEAL it, and then get the order right, first comes the debate

@benjamin8011

Жыл бұрын

IMO, there should be a referrendum based on a defined bill so we can all see exactly what we are dealing with. Water is NZ's principal economic asset and its stewardship must be fully accountable to the people of NZ via their elected representatives. It is democratic accountability, not the number of moko per millilitre, that is the essential issue in my view.

Matt Taibbi is todays Woodward and Bernstein. Taibbi comes from the traditional lineage of journalism, that despite their left-leaning, could be trusted to tell us the truth.

The head of the FDA in America has said that the cause of declining life expectancy is misinfomation. We live in a wonky woke world these days.

I turned off MSM New Zealand news for years and more so after we became 5 eyes members. Thanks for keeping real discussion alive

After listening to this, and around the 16/17 minute mark, I was forcibly reminded of the old saying and paraphrasing, "Ignore and deny history, dooms you to repeating it"

just talking, listening and letting the other person talk and then listen Good show Sean

Fantastic interview with Chris Trotter, more of that please

Uni Students are also vulnerable, first time away from their families, gathering in mass for affirmation for their new found freedom, floating, just waiting around to be snatched up by some cause etc.. The Uni's know it. Be open minded and have debate, at some stage they have to grow up and conform to the commercial world, earn money or find a profession that you've studied for. It's the students who have no idea what they will do after uni and just drift, not a great investment for the countries tax.

@merledoughty5787

Жыл бұрын

I think at my age now how many of us at a young age were politically unaware or cared, young minds these days are bombarded from every direction with the at hand media they have 24/7

@marjorieesteakley1982

Жыл бұрын

Kids should be going to trade school instead and reading good old 2nd wave Feminism instead of corporate newspeak.

Wow, that resonates. Thanks Chris.

So funny that RNZ is objecting to the Twitter label of being government funded - despite the inconvenient fact they ARE government funded!

Keep fighting the good fight Sean, evil prospers for a time but it never wins.

Really enjoyed listening to two intelligent people discussing a common issue. This alas is becoming far to uncommon in our captured main stream media.

You can’t have real freedom without truth

What wonderful commonsense! How heartening to hear debate about the problems facing us. Journalism as it should be practiced.

we left NZ in 2018 and i do not recognize my country anymore.

Bravo, Bravo ....Keep the good fight going forward .

A breath of fresh air, thank you.

What a brilliant discussion. As Sean said, I am relieved that I am not crazy after all.

We don't trust them (main stream media) & for damn good reason! Fantastic talk Sean & Chris! Very refreshing! The ability to print money is what they DON'T want you to talk about along with CDBC's, which are NOT to be confused with things like Bitcoin! Great interview & lovely to hear "old school lefties" like Chris speaking so bang on point about the short comings of both Labour & National! It's well past "left vs right" now!

Almost all university lecturers are left leaning, they pass that on to journalism students, who don't seem to have a ability to critically think about the opposite view to the woke narrative.

@youcanthandlethetruth5433

Жыл бұрын

True. But how did all these numpty professors turn left wing. It almost seems like a controlled agenda

@marjorieesteakley1982

Жыл бұрын

There is nothing leftist about neoliberalism. Real Marxists are supposed to be for material reality, not postmodernism.

@fredjones9750

Жыл бұрын

This is so true. Expect to get very low grades if you challenge anything.

Do we prefer not to mention how our children have been groomed to take the puberty blocker and ruin the rest of their lives? Instead, we focus on affordable housing? Tell me why can't we do both?

Re visit the unjust mandates and getting nurses back to work 😮

@marjorieesteakley1982

Жыл бұрын

🎯💯🔔

Good on Chris Trotter for speaking about culture wars and the media.

Sean and Chris wont go down the path of who or what is causing the problems ... To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize". Who do you think we are not allowed to criticize more than anyone? there is your answer

@Straitjacket-Fits

Жыл бұрын

You know it

@GaryGraham-sx4pm

Жыл бұрын

nz politicians are well protected by libel and defamation laws which nobble journalism and were the death knell to satire

@stephenc8956

Жыл бұрын

Yup!

Very very slowly Sean is red pilling himself … slowly uncovering the layers …. Bit by bit ….

@FRED-gx2qk

Жыл бұрын

Yes he was slow off the mark 👌

Now we can understand why the exPM needs to be involved with the ChCH call. So that she can maintain her channels into the internet and to maintain her international persona.

@andreatodd3095

Жыл бұрын

Yep it's a worry..

@julianwalls1077

Жыл бұрын

They basically crated a job for her that's not needed.. more censorship by the censor queen!🤣

Sean, have you read The War on the West by Douglas Murray? You really should. It covers the vast extent of this appalling matter.

Brilliant conversation!

Well done Sean! Always good discussions mate!

Wise words Chris...I am one who has found the life raft !!!!!! Thank you the platform 😊

A very very good meeting of the minds....

I miss listening to Sean all day, everyday on the radio at work. It's just not the same. All the best Mr. Plunkett.

Sean what an excellent talk. Very enlighten. You must have Chris trotter on more often. He is a mind of information.

originally from NZ had thoughts of one day going back to retire however no way couldn't go back now the place has gone so crazy woke

Gold, thank you!

This is great information 👏 👌 👍 ❤.

All this sounds rational and truthful. The big Q is who pays the journalists and has so much influence over the NZ mainstream media as a whole. Haven't we recently lost the ODT (the last Independent Newspaper) to a conglomerate?

@marjorieesteakley1982

Жыл бұрын

Also the Smith Mundt Act.

@valeriehughes1008

Жыл бұрын

Labour's big 100 million dollar buy out of the MSM in NZ was very dangerous. I believe Ardern got the idea from the Canadian PM who had succeeded in doing this in Canada...it is considered to be a classic WEF policy of taking away corner stones of democracy... free press, free speech... then divide and conquer! Ardern knocked out the free press, was working hard on the free speech and she has divided us like no other time in our history with her race based policies. WEF and Labour do not like democracy! No Government must be allowed to "buy out an entire MSM" as Labour has done.... Sink or swim the media must do so on its own merits.

Thanks Sean...keep going...fight the good fight! And to those coming on the platform to speak. All I ask is a discussion is not shut off and cancelled due to differing views.

One of the best 30 minute interviews I’ve witnessed in years.

A great interview with Chris, someone who is actually paying attention to what is going on.

I like the discussion. lets be honest if you recall the video of Marama Davidson after she left the protest. TV1 stated this video was a right wing account of Davidson leaving this protest and not of their reporting. The time has to change with media, I am glad that Chris Trotter is having this discussion. Look at what is happening with the BBC. Sean it was great to see you being interviewed with Rita Panahi on Outsiders, of which we are avid fans just like this post.

Outstanding interview. So balanced and nuanced. Well done

Brilliant. Here to put a +1 to the youre not crazy club and help the algorithm. LES GO

"Feels imported to me" (chomps teeth together like a horse) That's the definition of gaslighting

This is so scary that this is happening in the West

proud of you Sean you deserve it i am so glad we have you you are ,,,are voice

Great discussion

This is fascinating. Chris Trotter has been hard left all his professional life but in the past couple of years he has moved to the political centre - perhaps even right of centre. A similar transformation has happened in the USA with Bill Maher. Refreshing.

@MrBigTDubbs

Жыл бұрын

Bill is still a scumbag in my opinion, when he spoke to Russell Brand he struggled to keep his bias underwraps still

@marjorieesteakley1982

Жыл бұрын

Chris hasn't changed; the left was taken over by corporate infiltration.

@benjamineverett8989

Жыл бұрын

I think what's happened is Chris hasn't changed, but the 'left' has turned into something that is not what he and others would now recognise as a traditional left way of thinking and culture.

NZ MSM Journalists are not employed to practise journalism in the same way airline stewards are not employed to fly the plane.

@johnberkley6942

Жыл бұрын

Don't worry, with equal opportunity quotas, soon the stewards WILL be flying the plane.

@howlsatdesertmoon9840

Жыл бұрын

@@johnberkley6942 Oh no they won't! When it comes to what really matters, equality of outcome gets relegated to the bin where it belongs. For everything else, there's the promotion of sloppy amateurism in favour of diversity, equity and inclusion and, even worse, opportunity awarded to those who prostitute themselves to the powerful.

So very glad to see great discourse across the political spectrums. Labour and Greens are just missing out if they don't want to join the discourse. Sad really.

Man that was a great interview. ❤👍

It’s very egotistical to think people can’t handle the truth.

Thank you, Sean, for being the most neutral! That is something we should be grateful! Just one thought. The most typical journalist is quite extroverted and interested in being in the spotlight. Anything that leads there is good from their perspective. But, this attitude does not mean they are seeking truth. There is another type of person who intends to seek truth by all means. These people do not necessarily want to be in the spotlight. The first group is the typical journalist. The second is more leaning toward conservative people who stick to the truth first and are more sceptical about anything. It is quite natural that the media is left-leaning because people in the media are interested in being in the spotlight rather than seeking the truth. Those journalists who seek truth are closer to conservatives; it is natural in this sense.

You need to speak to DemocracyNZ more if you're interested in facts and honest opinions.

@GaryGraham-sx4pm

Жыл бұрын

you need to speak to the opportunities party if you're interested in reality and truly progressive opinions

Please make Chris a weekly appearance

This is the best interview I have ever heard on the subject. Get it out there. Thankyou.

Would be wonderful if that awful day did change the attitude of,our News Media but I have yet to see any signs of this pity.

Look at what this has all deciding our families absolutely shocking

Labor greens won't come on the show because they know real questions would be asked and that's the last thing they want. Not a free country anymore, once co governance comes in I will abandoned everything and leave.

@Liz-zt8qd

Жыл бұрын

There is a culture war here look at the woke news readers on TV1 for goodness sake. They think just because they speak a few maori words it is part of the labour co-governance plan to influence people to vote for them. Media is corrupt arm of the labour government.

@marjorieesteakley1982

Жыл бұрын

​@@Liz-zt8qd imported from the US.

Wonderful, thankyou

Best Media source in nz. That’s why I support them on a paid account. I encourage every kiwi to do the same 😊

Chris Trotters last comment, absolute gold.

At the end, there was a very good point made. Politicians like minor distractions such as race, sex and sexuality, etc. For the good of the average person on the street we all need to hold our politicians accountable for what really matters to the majority. Things like housing, the cost of food, power, employment and health, oh, and also law and order. Get these things somewhat near sorted and the rest will probably improve as well. Thank you for another very interesting discussion.

As an elderly varsity student in the early 2000's (50's) I found the young students would not question the perceived wisdom of the Lecturer's, and no discussion ensued about other opinions, no debate just acceptance, I was called a "communist", jokingly for challenging the Lecturer (he asked me later to be a tutor) bumps on a log have more spirit of curiosity, how do you learn if you don't ask, the media are a closed shop, every new Prime Minister here walks on water until they fall on their sword, or lose an election, no tough questions are permitted, only "expert's" of a similar opinion ae allowed to comment, so how can you learn in this type of climate.

Keep trying to push for and spread the truth Sean. Awesome work. And as a side note Luxton is unfortunately "one of them" to.

@Eohippus100

Жыл бұрын

Vote ACT then

@JohnBull-im3sv

Жыл бұрын

@@Eohippus100 I may

@lilith3953

Жыл бұрын

@@Eohippus100 Act are also 'one of them'. They didn't meet the protesters. They didn't stand up for your medical freedom or mine. And the CIA considered switching their support from national to Act as better more biddable stewards of the CIA's agenda for NZ, but decided that they just didn't have enough popular support to make it worthwhile.

@angelamccallum3315

Жыл бұрын

Bring on Winston.

@JohnBull-im3sv

Жыл бұрын

@@angelamccallum3315 I agree

Very grateful to you both for bringing these issues into the open. Great analysis.

oh Lordy - thank goodness for you!

Awesome subject and discussion Gent's. Thank you for restoring sanity and rational thought into the insane, divisive and corrosive world we are currently existing in. God Bless you both and keep going!

Well done there. Your coverage of KJK's harrowing experience and your help in giving her an unbiased soap box gave everyone a little bit of belief back in NZ's media, after that awful witch hunt that went before.

@Azimo-fv4kz

Жыл бұрын

Kelly Jay Keen is an old witch! Good riddance she left 😂

@GhostOfArtBell0935

Жыл бұрын

@@Azimo-fv4kz Damn, really fighting that stereotype that troons are mentally-ill aggresive lunatics there, champ

@Azimo-fv4kz

Жыл бұрын

@Ghost of Art Bell 09 yep and I will continue fighting. You can't stop all of us trans people. Not even if you try to restrict our rights from existing, we will fight back until the very end.

@fredjones9750

Жыл бұрын

​@@Azimo-fv4kz who's restricting your rights to exist. Go on right ahead. Personally I find men doing womanface and competing in biological women's sports as offensive to women. But you do you.

@Azimo-fv4kz

Жыл бұрын

@@fredjones9750 I'm not supporting men competing in women's sport. I also don't accept men who identify as women to compete in sports since biologically, it gives them an unfair advantage. However, i am against the constant and unnecessary hate against trans people who don't do anything and still get attacked and sent death threats.

A very important discussion. I don’t know anyone that hasn’t drawn the conclusion that mainstream media are left biased and don’t appear to have any ability to provide balance reporting of events, and have zero ability to conduct fair balanced investigative reporting on pretty much any issue. A very sad state of affairs - keep the pressure up Mr Plunket and friends. Is it coming from editorial policy or is it a statement of how biased our education system that educated those working in Journalism or both ?, it seems to be endemic.

@GaryGraham-sx4pm

Жыл бұрын

i blame it on the endemic

@lilith3953

Жыл бұрын

The bias isn't left, it's establishment. It's neoliberalism.

@marjorieesteakley1982

Жыл бұрын

​@@lilith3953 🎯💯🔔

Quite right!! I do NOT watch NZ TV stations, listen to radio News reports or newspapers. They are just like the polls report totally left of centre & report pre-programmed news put out by central players.!!!!! Keep doing what you're doing.

@damionkeeling3103

Ай бұрын

It's been like that for years. NZ media would slavishly peddle out pre-written pap from American sources instead of giving a considered opinion. The anti-police stories were a case in point and just like the American press the New Zealand press never offered a retraction when it was found the cops were in the right - the same with the story about the school boy accused of racism because he was wearing a maga hat but it turned out he and his classmates were the victims of racism that day - no real discussion about the NZ media following the lead in attacking a schoolboy based on biased information because checking the facts before publication is so last century.

Perhaps you could get Douglas Murray on your show Sean

watching from Vancouver BC

@marjorieesteakley1982

Жыл бұрын

Listening from Dallas Texas. This is a global issue.

Better to be realistic than neutral 😅. Left wing, right wing, same Orwellian deception. Do not be fooled by these illusory contrasts.

Five eyes ....when we leave the warmongering and become truly neutral

Great chat

Sean your getting towards top Notch you read your comments which helps. 😏

Thanks for putting this up, keeping my eyes on NZ from 🇬🇧❤️

Great interview. Agreed mostly with the final point, but we women have to fight the trans lies and claims, and we can succeed. Otherwise, huge detriment to society.

The Decade of the Lady Blokes. Make it all go away 😮

@Liz-zt8qd

Жыл бұрын

They will all go straight to hell

Maybe we need more debating competition at school.

@stephenc8956

Жыл бұрын

It would be pretty one sided!

@StGammon77

10 ай бұрын

Yes let's focus on intellect and critical thought instead of race