Nathan Wallis Grift
May 8, 2025
By NZB3
It’s hard to know when mainstream media is putting out advertising or editorial content. As a rule, the show is propaganda/advertising and the ‘break’ for ‘advertising’ is the real news since it carries price and product information explicitly. The rest of the time they’re trying to sell you something subversively without you knowing.
Take Radio Hauraki last night which, instead of music as I’d wished, had “The Radio Hauraki Big Show with Jason Hoyte, Mike Minogue and Chris ‘Keyzie’ Key” yammering while I made dinner. They were pretending to be excited about new shows on Netflix that they clearly hadn’t seen and I quickly figured out this was advertising disguised as banter. I’d love to team up with someone who knows to write an Anarkiwi handbook to all these grifting tricks.
Another is the so-called experts the Legacy Media put on the air. Who they select. How they’re treated.
Consider Nathan Wallis, a long-time grifter (“advised various government departments” is the definition of a grifter from Anarchist point of view.) He’s plugged as a parenting expert and put on National Party and, now, government propaganda as a supposed independent voice about parenting. Stuff call him a “guru.”
The issue at hand is that the National-led government is seeking to ban social media to kids under 16. Apart from Wallis they have the motherly-presenting MP Catherine Wedd fronting their ‘righteous’ cause. Like the Australian government, and as National have done with schools, they want Wellington to decide rather than parents and teachers how pocket computers (phones) are to be used in society. The libertarian point of view is obvious: They should stay out of this rather than play Nanny State.
Wallis has been campaigning from outside of the party tent but he’s really one of them. He stands to gain from National Ministry postings and programs they might assign him and his company so long as he helps get this over the line.
The bit that got my attention isn’t just this particular drama though but the wider insight to how our media frames up information. Including scientific information…
“Nathan Wallace, a parenting expert, joins us this morning. Nathan, good morning.”
“Good morning. How are you, mate?”
“Very good, thank you. Great to have you on the show.”
“So, have we established it? Do phones make kids depressed, mess with their heads, and turn them into, you know, nut bars?”
“Yeah, the short answer is: yes, we have.” – Ryan Bridge interviews Nathan Wallace, Newstalk ZB (8 May 2025)
I have also put the audio clip online on the Anarkiwi Facebook page here.
So, just like that, the sympathetic media helps their selected agent to over-leap a whole lot of difficult science and facts!
Wallace, by the way, has been a go-to interview on ZB for 2 or 3 years now. He is variously described as Neuroscience educator, Child Development Expert, Parenting expert, Parenting commentator, Child development expert. Because they say he is.
In the first 3 seconds of the interview the host, Ryan Bridge, has helped establish that Wallace and Wedd/National are in the right. Their law is good and needed!
Also note that Wedd doesn’t have to be legally liable for the conclusions laid out.
Nor is Ryan Bridge responsible for saying that the government is going to save the nations’ children from being depressed/messed/nutbars. He was only asking a question not making a statement.
Wedd, however, can take that spiked volleyball and slam it home with his ‘short answer’.
Watch for this particular technique on the radio. It’s a way of talking out the side of their mouths to put ideas in your head without being direct about it. And, a way to dodge the letter of the law by not actually making a false statement. Much as Winston Peters does and all the ‘players’ must. Ref. Dinosaur Media Self-Hugs, NZB3
You package up the statement as a question and hand the script to the interviewer. They’ll be safe- just asking a question. Then, you respond affirmatively but with tentative language (“short answer,” “basically,” etc.)
Another fine example not played on the radio recently is their commercial for some medical cure. But they don’t call it that. They have voice actors saying it in the guise of testimonials and make it seem like the snake oil really works! That way they get the same idea into your brain but are not responsible for giving health advice.
Thus, the workings of our Old Media. It will soon pass.
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Image ref. Catherine Wedd, Hawke’s Bay App, Youtube (2024)
Ref Full interview- Nathan Wallis: Parenting expert on the damage caused by social media, ban for under 16s, NB
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