A lot of pearl clutching over at NZME that Chippy had the temerity to tell ZB that NZME were politically biased towards the right…
Thomas Coughlan: Is Chris Hipkins right about recent ram-raid data?
In an earlier interview on ZB’s Wellington Mornings, Chris Hipkins claimed NZME’s ‘Tory owners’ decided not to put ram-raids on the front page anymore – in order to put the National Party in a better light.
…shock! Horror!
If Coughlan keeps clutching at his pearls, he’ll start forming a shell.
Of course NZME is the mouthpiece for the political right!
Faux outrage over that truth as alt-Right culture warrior billionaire Jim Grenon takes over is a Trumpian level of delusion.
Let’s be clear, ram raids dropped BECAUSE of the work Labour put in alongside the simple fact that lockdowns had ended, they didn’t come down because of National’s draconian ‘get tough on crime’ bullshit…
Numbers of repeat serious young offenders are dropping – and no one knows why
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- The Government has set a target for a 15% reduction in the number of serious and persistent young offenders by the end of 2029.
- Documents released to the Herald show a rising annual trend in the number of these offenders for three and a half years, but it has now reversed for consecutive months.
- Most of the Government’s cornerstone policies on this issue are yet to be implemented, while one that ministers are exploring is raising concern: ‘more punitive measures for recidivist families’.
…hilariously Chippy’s point was made by last weeks media attention!
News came out showing the Government’s slash and burn on public housing and infrastructure had decimated the Construction Industry by over 12 000 jobs!!!
758 construction businesses have gone into liquidation in the last 12 months, thanks in part to the Government’s freeze on transport, housing and hospital investment spending at the beginning of 2024, Centrix reported this morning. Construction jobs have fallen by 12,723 in the last year!
In any other reality, Government policy that had seen 12 723 jobs gone would lead every news bulletin, but what did this Government do?
Why they threw out tough-on-crime raw meat bullshit and it dominated the entire weeks news cycle!
Doesn’t it say something about us as a people and the Fourth Estate Media who are supposed to inform you, that Government policy can destroy 12 723 jobs yet they can distract you all with petty crime policy that will only make things worse and no one notices the 12723 job losses?
The ease with which you can manipulate a Kiwi never ceases to amaze me.
Chippy was right, the Tory Media use crime porn clickbait when it serves their political interests.
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It’s obvious that NZ’s pathetically weak and politically biased media refuse to report actual facts and continue to dripfeed us “junk”, never saying how bad or incompetent this current CoC are, and certainly not prepared to tell the truth. It’s way past time for “real” journalists to step up hugely and let the NZ people know precisely what is going on, i.e. no more brainwashing or deception or lies! It’s an insult to our intelligence and we’ve had enough. So thanks Hipkins. We must continually challenge our media for their vile ineptitude. Apologies to the media/journo’s out there who are still doing an honest job; you are the minority and we appreciate your diligence.
“We must continually challenge our media for their vile ineptitude”
It’s not just ineptitude though.
Many/most do like to self=agrandise and hitch their wagon to the cult of look-at-moi, look-at-moi personality and stardom.
And what’s with Paul Thompson and his BFF Willie from the chocolate factory performing yet another rescue mission on the Chipmunk Peddy Gear.
Most of the “real” journalists have lost their jobs a long time ago.
Refusing to fund this by properly taxing international social media / technology firms is a huge part of the problem.
People have said it here before; Aotearoa hasn’t ever stopped being plundered.
I’ve said it before here and I’ll say it again. We need to federalise or at least devolve things like justice, police and corrections to the regions so they can decide what sort of sentencing they need for themselves without Wellington’s interference.
Chris I didn’t read that before. So keep on saying it and giving examples of how that approach would work out better than present, and if they do it elsewhere so we can learn.
And local government elections coming up later, this year, can we set up some model projects that committed practical people can partake in their area to get the idea under way and then a hard look at how it works. A lot of people have ideas then change them halfway though a project. Needed are commitment and nous and the formula – Kindness, Practicality, and Thoughtfulness. Chant – KPT KPT KPT KPT …
All those combined make a good medicine for a sick country.
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Just have a similar system to the UK I guess.
Who would have thought if you had a large portion of the construction industry building over priced KO homes funded by increased debt on a unsustainable trajectory that once the music stopped there would be job losses.
Well I never………..
Clearly you didn’t thought
Frank the people you think are fing wonderful have borrowed more money and haven’t built a thing.
Maybe the people who knew we had thousands waiting for a state rental and knew that it was building an appreciating asset for future generations, instead of basically setting an incredibly large sum on fire by cancelling ships that were vital to our economy then borrowed more money for tax cuts for a select few as well. The only thing that was unsustainable about the English report on housing was his greed for easy tax payer money.
all those cancelled house builds have already cost us a billion so why not finish them .Like the ferry story more money dumped in the cook straight with nothing to show .THE GOVERNMENT OF WASTE AND NON DELIVERY .
and we have a 50% growth in the homeless and 56000 extra people on welfare .Fucken growth growth growth
Obviously, crime has increased under this COC government shoplifting, drug related crimes, violence and with an increase of drugs coming into our country under this government what do you expect.
Rocket high unemployment leads to crime…thanks National.
If the whole of the western world and their leaders can ignore what’s actually going on in Palestine then anything is possible .
Hipkins was correct.
Our local garage has been raided twice in the last 3 months and the local NZME owned paper reported neither incident.
It was reported on the local Facebook news.
On Saturday a jeweller suffered a smash and grab which achieved a two paragraph report which was pathetic. It should have been front page but no, that was given to Bishop being in town talking to a carpet manufacturer about making carpet for non existent state house builds.
If you can stomach 15 minutes of TVNZ from 6pm. you find very in-depth reporting of the mushroom murders in Australia which we are told, has had the world transfixed for several weeks now. Then there are the floods in Texas which will keep the world transfixed for another wee while. This peppered by irrelevant filler stories, like the weather man leaping around the room jabbering about what he will say later in the bulletin. Then we get a picture of a bombed site in Gaza or Ukraine. Then the orange Dennis the Menace punching the air.
Never a mention of the Regulatory Standards debate because, you guessed it, there is no debate. It’s all Mr. Always Right telling us what’s going to happen.
He’s always the Acting Prime Minister, not deputy PM. There appears to have been almost a coup and no-one’s noticed. I agree, Luxon is eminently forgettable but surely someone’s twigged that the man’s missing in inaction. Surely his colleagues would notice…wouldn’t they?
Luxon is most likely with trumpoop enjoying some S bend surfing
wHERE IS THE ceo OFF FUCKING UP ANOTHER COUNTRY OR COMPANY .Great CV he has ,Failed soap seller ,failed air line CEO who Failed TO TAKE OVER VIRGIN aus AND THREW HIS TOYS AND SACKED A HEAP OF STAFF THEN BOUGHT PLANES THAT WE CANT USE .Now a Failed PM who fucks off when shit goes down .Where is he ?swaning around in Honalulu when he should be fronting in NELSON .
So the right wing media doesn’t report about unemployment and the destruction of 12000 construction jobs. But has every Labour MP or candidate buttonholed the local journalists in their city, provincial town, electorate and forced this govts appalling record on unemployment and crime into the local newspaper, radio, community website or is it just left to the Wellington office to send an ignored press release?
Chippy is correct .Just look at the anti Jacinda HATE that Stuff ran for a whole week last week after paying Sir Ian Taylor to write a hate letter to her then calling for readers to write comments and then publishing the ones from the river of filth ALI HAT brigade for the next 5 days .Yet the current government is a joke and National have sold the farm to The rich prick party and the river of filth party .Luxon is a fucken big fail and the only good thing he has done is ensure that there will never be another National government again .
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