Media Insider: Unauthorised Dame Jacinda Ardern book sales
Unauthorised Ardern book sales
An unauthorised biography on Dame Jacinda Ardern is selling well, with an initial print run of 4000 copies almost sold out, and a second print run about to be distributed.
The book, by author, writer and journalist David Cohen, went on sale late last week.
“We have watched bookstores all over the country sell out and reorder new stock over the past week. Some stores have placed multiple repeat orders,” said Tameem Barakat, the owner and managing editor of the Centrist media platform, which has published the book.
Most of the independent bookshops approached by Media Insider this week said they were or would be stocking the book, although some said they had not received a heads-up about it.
I’ve never liked Shayne Currie (he was the editor of the NZ Herald when he allowed Rachel Glucina to pretend to be a PR adviser in the Pony Tail Pulling story despite me calling him directly and warning him it happened), but you do have to hand it to ole Shayne, boyfriend knows when change is coming and which new power broker to suck up to.
Alt-Right Billionaire Jim Grenon is now in control, and his Alt-Right Culture War Hate Blog, The Centrist, is a Jacinda Ardern Hate club hence Shayne is suddenly pimping for their book!
David Cohen contacted me last year and asked if I would agree to be interviewed for this book.
I’ve known Clarke for decades (we did shows together as DJs on Channel Z) and Jacinda (who had appeared many times on my Citizen A show) has baby sat my daughter.
I even gave Clarke her cell phone number to contact her after the mass surveillance protests I was leading because he wanted to talk to her as his constituent MP about his concerns, and that led to them dating.
I also had a lot of knowledge on what was going on behind the scenes of her Government so I originally said yes because I thought I might have some insight to provide.
I checked out Cohen’s writing and didn’t really like anything he had written, but I was going along with it until the day of the interview and for some reason I just got a really weird vibe off him.
I can’t tell you what it was, but at the last minute (literally) I pulled out and didn’t go ahead with the interview.
I’m so fucking glad I did NOW I know that the backer of his book is the fucking Centrist!
The Centrist, as TDB has pointed out, is the new alt-Right hate blog started by alt-Right culture War Canadian Billionaire Jim Grenon, the same alt-right Billionaire who just took over NZME.
There’s no surprise that Shayne Currie is kissing David Cohen’s arse, Cohen’s book is backed by the same Hate Blog that Jim Grenon, now Shayne’s boss, set up.
When a hate blog your boss has set up has a book to pimp, no one kisses as hard as Shayne.
The Centrist was behind the insinuation Benjamin Doyle was a pedohile, they publish anti-Trans hate, anti-Māori hate, anti-Treaty hate, anti-vaccine hate, and are climate deniers.
That they are behind Cohen’s book is like finding out your local kindergarten is run by the Nazgul.
If the alt-right culture war hate Blog is backing Cohen’s new book, it will be little more than a hatchet job on Jacinda.
Sometimes you need to listen to your gut about a vibe you get from someone.
The more culture war hate you are into, the more likely Shayne will promote you as a fawning tribute to his new Alt-Right Billionaire.
Shayne is as hideously compromised in covering his new masters pet hates as Fox News are when covering Trump.
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