Wednesday, 22 November 2023 12:55

Still bludging!

Written by The Hound

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OPINION: Your canine crusader is astounded at the sheer cojones of webbased media company Newsroom and its wont to cadge funding off others.

Not content with the $2,189,301 it got in taxpayer monies from the much maligned and highly controversial $55 million Public Interest Journalism Fund (interestingly this is 10 times the amount of funding – at $219,000 – that the publishers of NZ Farmers Weekly sucked out of the PIJF) Newsroom has its hand out again.

It is now asking its readers for $20,000 so it can fly its inanely boring and sanctimonious ‘columnist’ Rod Oram to Dubai to cover the annual world climate talkfest COP28.

This old mutt can think of million things better to do with $20k than paying for this bicycle riding, pompous Pom delivering his ‘the end of the world is nigh’ sermons from the mount from Dubai.

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