Let’s be very clear here.
An Alt-Right Canadian Billionaire taking over the Herald and NZME is an incredibly dangerous proposition for our Fourth Estate Journalism.
His founding of an Alt-Right anti-vaccine, anti-Māori, anti-Trans shit posting blog alongside his support of an evangelical antivaxx grifter like Chantelle Fucking Baker is like being told your Judge is being sponsored by Donald Trump who has just tweeted that he hates you and wants to see you suffer.
As far as I’m concerned, Chantelle Baker is Bishop Brain Tamaki in drag. Just slightly less feminine in the eyebrows though.
Expecting anything other than hostile bias under that editorial team would be so optimistic as to be criminally negligent.
Allowing an alt-right culture war Billionaire to radicalise our largest news network is a deeply worrying prospect.
Let’s be clear, NMZE is already VERY fucking right wing as it is, Mike Hosking is Darth Vader and ZB the Deathstar, to want to turn that into something even MORE extreme is like making Hitler a Sith Lord and turning all the Stormtrooper white armour brown.
Like sure, but whoa!
There’s no need to give Heather du Plessis-Allan a machine gun and a meth pipe right?
Mutating NZME into some weird political circus freak show doesn’t feel very public broadcasting does it?
It kinda feels like a dystopian prequel to The Handmaidens Tale meets Hunger Games crossover.
We’ve seen Elon take over Twitter and Bezos threaten the Washington Post.
We now have an Alt-Right Canadian Billionaire who has connections to some deeply problematic news sources.
Is Chantelle going to be deputy editor of the Herald’s new Trad Wife Feminism section?
Can they buy out Sean Plunkett to join Mike Hosking and Peter Williams for a new Morning Book Burning Breakfast on ZB?
Will Hobson’s Pledge join the Alternative Cricket Commentary team?
Chris Trotter becoming the new Māori Affairs Editor?
Bishop Brian Tamaki’s Weather and natural distress report based on how much God hates the trans community this month?
Comrades – nothing good will come of this madness.
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A problem here is that many people will rejoice that the fourth estate is crashing down. Will anyone read the new rag? Probably not.
I hope note I think real kiwis will stop subscribing
It does sound like some rich Canadian billionaire buying up the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Maybe he intends to turn it into a Onion News style pisstache or Sun style tabloid.
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