Wonder how many countries in the world would publish this sort of thing and get no online comments.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/tarana...nd-fox-terrier-races

We Australians often look at the kiwis as being a "backward cousin" but they've sure got us beat when it comes to a practical attitude and the enjoyment of good outdoors fun.

They don't seem to be encumbered with the socially/politically correct crap that we're laboured with.

It's probably why the place is such a paradise.

Interesting, but I notice it is an advertisement. One problem these days is that so many stories, even those not labelled 'Advertisement' are advertorials, even in the once-high-minded newspapers.

And that, I'm afraid, is one of the main sources of 'false news', not necessarily because the information is false but because it may not really be news.

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Originally posted by sambarman338:
Interesting, but I notice it an advertisement. One problem these days is that so many stories, even those not labelled 'Advertisement' are advertorials, even in the once-high-minded newspapers.

And that, I'm afraid, is one of the main sources of 'false news', not necessarily because the information is false but because it may not really be news.

Its an article in a local area paper picked up by Stuff which also happens to own most of the news outlets in NZ.

We have quite a few hunting programmes on our TV channels some showing slowmo bullet impacts on game. Every week before national duck shooting opening weekend (first weekend in May) our TV news have a few items on the upcoming season and then on opening weekend national news will have a few results from around the country. Doesn't seem to attract any adverse reaction.

Likewise our Maori TV channel often has hunting shows, out dogging for pigs, spotlighting possums and rabbits. One I saw a young boy about 7 years old sticking a squealing pig held by dogs, not for the squeamish but not a reaction from anyone.

We are fortunate that the general population do see hunting in NZ as a normal part of life here.

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Originally posted by twobobbwana:
We Australians often look at the kiwis as being a "backward cousin" but they've sure got us beat when it comes to a practical attitude and the enjoyment of good outdoors fun.

They don't seem to be encumbered with the socially/politically correct crap that we're laboured with.

It's probably why the place is such a paradise.

The irony is that is how Kiwi's think of Australians, and for exactly the same reasons...

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Originally posted by sambarman338:
Interesting, but I notice it an advertisement. One problem these days is that so many stories, even those not labelled 'Advertisement' are advertorials, even in the once-high-minded newspapers.

And that, I'm afraid, is one of the main sources of 'false news', not necessarily because the information is false but because it may not really be news.

It's a newspaper article.

I had a laugh at the photo of the little girl with a possum's claw hooked in her top, the old possum deadly sharp claws even in death, been hooked many a time.

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Originally posted by Carlsen Highway:

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Originally posted by sambarman338:
Interesting, but I notice it is an advertisement. One problem these days is that so many stories, even those not labelled 'Advertisement' are advertorials, even in the once-high-minded newspapers.

And that, I'm afraid, is one of the main sources of 'false news', not necessarily because the information is false but because it may not really be news.

It's a newspaper article.

No, sorry, Carlsen, there is a feint word at the top saying 'ADVERTISEMENT'. That means it is not a newspaper article in the normal sense of the word, it is ... an advertisement.

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Originally posted by sambarman338:

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Originally posted by Carlsen Highway:

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Originally posted by sambarman338:
Interesting, but I notice it is an advertisement. One problem these days is that so many stories, even those not labelled 'Advertisement' are advertorials, even in the once-high-minded newspapers.

And that, I'm afraid, is one of the main sources of 'false news', not necessarily because the information is false but because it may not really be news.

It's a newspaper article.

No, sorry, Carlsen, there is a feint word at the top saying 'ADVERTISEMENT'. That means it is not a newspaper article in the normal sense of the word, it is ... an advertisement.

Not sure where you are seeing that Sambarman, I only see it as an article from the Taranaki Daily News under their Lifestyle section. Clicking on the lifestyle tab at the top brings up the online paper with up to date articles some of which are published on the main Stuff webpage. It's up in Nakihunter's territory. It's all for real.

Well Eagle, the type is there, though a banner comes down to cover it at times. The ADVERTISEMENT line is the same one you see in Fairfax papers whenever some snake-oil salesman puts in an ad set out like a real article. Our paper had so much trouble with that sort of stuff that we used to refuse to print them if they were set in the same serif type as the normal editorial.

The word advertisement is there to inform you that the banner is an advert, not the article. Its there for every add on that page.

The article is indeed a newspaper article from the region Whangamomona is in. In other words its a local story about a local event in the region. Lived there a few years back and know some of the family featured in the article.

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Originally posted by sambarman338:

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Originally posted by Carlsen Highway:

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Originally posted by sambarman338:
Interesting, but I notice it is an advertisement. One problem these days is that so many stories, even those not labelled 'Advertisement' are advertorials, even in the once-high-minded newspapers.

And that, I'm afraid, is one of the main sources of 'false news', not necessarily because the information is false but because it may not really be news.

It's a newspaper article.

No, sorry, Carlsen, there is a feint word at the top saying 'ADVERTISEMENT'. That means it is not a newspaper article in the normal sense of the word, it is ... an advertisement.

With the greatest respect, the world really isn't that confusing.

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Originally posted by Carlsen Highway:

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Originally posted by sambarman338:

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Originally posted by Carlsen Highway:

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Originally posted by sambarman338:
Interesting, but I notice it is an advertisement. One problem these days is that so many stories, even those not labelled 'Advertisement' are advertorials, even in the once-high-minded newspapers.

And that, I'm afraid, is one of the main sources of 'false news', not necessarily because the information is false but because it may not really be news.

It's a newspaper article.

No, sorry, Carlsen, there is a feint word at the top saying 'ADVERTISEMENT'. That means it is not a newspaper article in the normal sense of the word, it is ... an advertisement.

With the greatest respect, the world really isn't that confusing.

Well, with due respect, I suggest that it is confusing enough that plenty of people are sucked in to believe stuff that is not only untrue but deliberately manipulative.

We are being funnelled up our own verinculums by Internet browsers that analyse our mindsets and inundate our phones and computers with more of the same sort of stuff.

Services that promise All the news you want confirm the biases we are developing; foreign agents influence people's voting intentions by targeting them with psychologically engineered social-media messages; newspapers and TV distorts the effect of politicians' statements by grabbing fractions and presenting them out of context.

At least the publisher of the article in contention had the decency to label it 'ADVERTISEMENT'. That it was passed as acceptable to the readership is indeed a sign of the hunter-friendly nation.

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'ADVERTISEMENT'

That word is above a greyed out box....that link is the 'advertisement' you speak of. The article is just that, a news article written for the paper......