Top 5 dumbest crap NZ media said about Local Elections wrap up
The media’s ignorance is our ignorance and their chase for clickbait bullshit clouds our ability to have a functioning democracy.
Author: Martyn Bradbury
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LOCAL ELECTION RESULTS: How the Left beat the Right and Why Chloe Swarbrick is the real winner
The most boring election known to human kind is over, and it’s been a sprawling failure for democracy (barely 40% voted) and it’s been the dullest (nothing much will really change).
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Hold on, wait, there was a secret SERCO report that was smothered? Things you’re missing because of rugby toilet sex
If we could stop interviewing the toilet Aaron Smith had sex in for a moment, as first reported on The Daily Blog last year when this SERCO scandal broke, there were previous internal reports into the fight clubs that were incredibly damning and were smothered so that the Government would not be embarrassed by failure at their latest right wing social policy experiment.
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Is it weird to live in a country where a rugby player having sex in a toilet is a bigger story than one of our MPs being kidnapped?
Nothing makes me feel as disorientated in my own culture as the news media focus on banality over actual issues. Watching everyone suddenly develop an opinion on gossip reminds me how easily led our fellow citizens have become.
This is why John Key wins elections.
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Will Mike Hosking or Duncan Garner interview the bathroom that the All Black had sex in? How does the bathroom feel?
Has any reporter sniffed the toilet seat?
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So the SERCO fight clubs were weekly?
Instead of an All Black having sex in a toilet, might the PM offer a comment on weekly fight clubs in his private prison?
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Oh God No! Pence Wins
All Pence had to do was tell the hard religious right of America that the wrapper may be a populist blue collar yob, but the steel hard military industrial complex core of Republicanism is in safe ultra religious hands.
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An All Black having sex in a toilet should only shock you if you take your moral and ethical cue’s from people who are good at kicking and catching balls
I’m sorry, what? Have we ended the Kim got robbed news cycle with an All Black having sex in a disabled toilet news cycle?
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No you shouldn’t mock Kim Kardashian for being violently robbed, yes you should mock the media focus on this banal crap
No one should be mocked for being violently robbed. It’s a terrifying experience for any human being to endure. Mocking Kim Kardashian for being the victim of such violence is cruel, spiteful and mean spirited.
However.
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Who is to blame for low voter turn out and why online voting isn’t the solution
We have a user pays Generation with no political compass being asked to vote on issues that they and the wider public have zero idea about because our mainstream media are more focused on Real Housewives of fucking Auckland and Kim Kardashian getting robbed.