What was a bigger flop? Spark + RWC 2021 promoting Rita Ora’s halftime show when they didn’t have the rights or Stuff’s hysterical Fire + Fury middle class docudrama when barely a dozen Antivaxers got elected?
The idea that Spark + RWC 2021 were promoting Rita Ora’s half time show and only told viewers that they didn’t have the broadcasting rights is as eye rolling as Stuff’s Fire + Fury docudrama that antivax lunatics were taking over local democracy.
How many of the 200 antvax lunatics won places?
Barely a dozen.
You can see why so many of those fingered by Stuff are taking their complaints to the Media Council over balance.
The lack of wins for these feral antivax lunatics raises the question whether Stuff should have gone after them in the first place and makes Stuffs decision to not give these candidates a right of reply on much thinner ice.
Of course Fire + Fury shouldn’t platform these lunatics, but you can’t focus only on their contribution while ignoring the ferociously stupid blunders of Mallard!!!!
On the Thursday after the Wednesday attempt to push into Parliament, the movement had fractured and collapsed because of massive infighting between the leaders. AT THE VERY MOMENT THE PROTEST WAS FADING Mallard threw a temper tantrum and ordered the cops in while inadvertently streaming a live 10 hour recruitment video to the entire fucking country!
When that blows up and brings every angry lonely frustrated person with pain to Parliament, Mallard then turns on the sprinklers and plays loud music!
We wound those people up for 3 weeks and then screamed ‘Nazi’ when they finally react?
This is why Fire + Fury should be sanctioned by the Media Council, not because they didn’t interview these fringe fear grifters, but because they refused to balance the docudrama with any focus of accountability on Mallard’s response and tactical failures!
What has been the impact of Fire + Fury?
On one hand it has exposed the attempts by Qanon antivax lunatics to infiltrate our local democracy but on the other hand it has led to knee jerk reactions like the arrest of the CounterSpin Due who are now turning their prosecution into a show trial that will dangerously recruit more people!
Fire + Fury is guilty of imbalance, not because they refused to platform these fear grifters and crypto-fascists, but because they utterly refused to look at the contributing factors that led to the violence at the Dumb Lives Matter Parliament Lawn protests.
Fire + Fury lets our side off the hook for radicalising this to where we are now and if we are blinding ourselves to how we contributed to theism then any draconian crackdown is acceptable because they are 100% to blame.
If middle class virtue signalling is journalism now, we are in real trouble.
As for Spark and RWC 2021 promoting Rita Ora’s halftime show when they didn’t have the rights, it was an obvious scam but the cheerleading for Women’s sport now won’t bother looking at that because criticism could be perceived as another example of heteronormative white cis male patriarchy purposely undermining female sport which we all must support now even if we don’t like male sport to begin with.
OR ELSE!
I will be so annoyed if Fire + Fury gets nominated for any journalism awards.
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QANON. Say it properly. Again. And again.. and again…and
Yes the work of fiction Fire and Fury.
Yes it occurred to me with the dismal voting numbers, it’s pretty safe to conclude that no one took Stuffs witch hunt seriously. Ha ha
We are going to get there quicker if you start your own businesses.
Will the Media Council shutdown ‘Stuff?’ Pleeeeeez!
90% of the VFF affiliated clown candidates wern’t elected partly because Stuff exposed them and partly because they are fringe lunatics with no popular appeal.
Who is this Rita Ora women, why all this fuss? Is she famous or something?
The woman’s rugby is better to watch than the men. Should pay them more. Spark ( the old Telecom) have always been a cheating rip off corporate.
Is there some event happening in NZ?
As someone who voted in local body elections I appreciated Stuff’s and any of the other media exposure of those lunatics. Some were trying to enter the arena by stealth.
The fact that even a dozen were actually successful is more cause for concern rather than celebration.
Hammering on about “anti-vaxxers” will come back to haunt you in ways you didn’t think possible:
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/10/10/1651
Maybe the antivax lunatic mob didn’t get in because there weren’t enough of them to stand for office or there weren’t enough of them to support any such candidates.
Or maybe they’re so confused and thick voting was beyond them.
Or they suspected the voting forms contained a substance that actually permeates microchips through the skin on your fingers. All part of the pizza loving, child sacrificing plot to rule obviously