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  1. I like Bomber's proposal to diversify the range of public interest journalism that can get public funding:

    thedailyblog.co.nz/2023/07/09/

    But this...

    > All that is being generated by the current funding model is The Spin-off sharing their content with RNZ/Stuff/TVNZ etc etc etc. An endless social engineering campaign that promotes diversity over white cis male facts.

    ... is cynical and untrue.

    #Aotearoa #NZ #journalism #PublicJournalismFund #TheDailyBlog

  2. #TheDailyBlog.co.nz is a political commentary site run by Martyn #Bomber Bradbury, publishing pieces by left-leaning regular bloggers and guests (including myself). Sadly, they serve scripts from 7 third-party domains, including trackers like:
    * doubleclick.net
    * google.com
    * googletagservices.com
    * googletagmanager.com
    * statcounter.com

    #TDB publishes almost as many op eds about #ClimateChange as George Monbiot, but still emits an estimated 4.6g of carbon per page view:
    websitecarbon.com/website/thed

  3. @someone #TheDailyBlog is a blog site about activist politics in Aotearoa (NZ). They used to have all manner of dodgy JS running under the hood. I happen to sort of know the founder/ editor, so I emailed him with a list of all the stuff I could see using NoScript and Adblocker, and some commentary on what it all was. There's still some dodgy shit there (gOgleAPIs and Analticks) but *much* less that there was. I'll keep working on it ;)