Family First continues to grow its reach and influence without any help from the mainstream media. We have put a lot of effort into building our own platforms and followers so that we don’t need coverage in the legacy media. We have you, our followers, to thank. The more you view and share our content, the more if gets amplified across digital channels.
There was a time when the mainstream media would regularly come to Family First for commentary, it seemed that conservative opinions once mattered to the media as it enabled them to tell both sides of a story. But those days are long gone.
Sadly over the past decade Family First has all but been cancelled by the mainstream media, who seem to no longer want to publish conservative opinions. We noticed the continual decline (in mainstream media coverage) every time Family First spoke out on major social and political issues such as same-sex marriage, the anti-smacking law, radical changes to our abortion law, and the referendum on legalising cannabis. On each issue we got less and less media coverage until it was virtually zero.
But despite being effectively cancelled by the legacy media some commentators on digital channels are rightly pointing out the growing reach and influence of Family First …
Here are two such comments …
From Rodney Hide, writing for The Daily Examiner …
“Family First’s Bob McCoskrie has broadcast the email and Mr. Luxon’s response. Bob is New Zealand’s foremost conservative commentator with a reach right around and across New Zealand like no one else. He is a media force. Of course, he has been deplatformed for years but has spent the years building his own media platforms through Family First. He produces news and commentary of better quality than anything the legacy media can achieve and has a commensurate and committed reach.”
From Duncan Garner on his podcast…
“The mainstream media block certain conservative voices like Christian leader Bob McCoskrie who was effectively de-platformed by the media some years ago, so he’s set up his own way to connect and has a decent sized audience.”
