
News, opinion, analysis, lifestyle and entertainment – we’ve got your Sunday morning listening covered with The Sunday Session with Francesca Rudkin on Newstalk ZB.
| Publishes | Daily | Episodes | 3186 | Founded | 8 years ago |
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Tuned in again thinking just ‘maybe’ they may have taken account as to why people no longer trust our media. But quite shocked as they have just Doubled down on their far left bias. Always just one biased side covered. Very annoying and disappointing, media in NZ have created there own demise.
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