{"id":11839,"date":"2026-04-08T08:59:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/?p=11839"},"modified":"2026-04-08T09:18:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:18:20","slug":"new-zealand-media-bias-shows-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/?p=11839","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Media Bias Shows Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Opinion: Peter Mortlock<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t you love the lying, biased media? On Good Friday, they show some \u201cdying\u201d church with a few old people (God bless them), with (sadly) a liberal priest who was going on about Donald Trump!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While hundreds of churches that were full and overflowing, like City Impact Church (with hundreds of young people), get ignored!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good, overflowing churches who were preaching the true message of Easter \u2014 the death and resurrection of the Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The media did the same thing the other night as well, showing a \u201csmall, old, dying\u201d congregation in a church in the \u201cBible Belt\u201d of the USA \u2014 where, in fact, there are hundreds of very, very large, overflowing, healthy churches there. I know, as I have been there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The media know that as well, just as they know about us (when they want to report a negative story), so they unfortunately continue to lie and deceive with their biased agenda \u2014 sad!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This opinion was posted on Social Media on April 8<\/strong> <strong>by Peter Mortlock who is the leader of City Impact Church, Auckland.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion: Peter Mortlock Don\u2019t you love the lying, biased media? On Good Friday, they show some \u201cdying\u201d church with a few old people (God bless them), with (sadly) a liberal priest who was going on about Donald Trump! While hundreds of churches that were full and overflowing, like City Impact Church (with hundreds of young<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[117,993,113,992,255,994,945],"coauthors":[991],"class_list":{"0":"post-11839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-opinion","8":"tag-church","9":"tag-media-bias","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-one-news","12":"tag-opinion","13":"tag-peter-nortlock","14":"tag-tvnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11844,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11839\/revisions\/11844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11839"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=11839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}