Mainstream Media focus on smearing Willie Jackson – ignore 4 Government lies
This week really highlights why you can’t trust mainstream corporate media.
All week the focus was on smearing Willie Jackson for supposedly throwing a tantrum over Labour’s poorly planned party list process.
Here’s Vernon…
Add Monday’s infighting to Labour’s history of self-inflicted list-related wounds.
Broadcaster and former Alliance MP Willie Jackson’s dummy-spitting over being placed at 21 on the list was predictable.
It is a winnable slot at anything like what the party expects to poll at the September election. So it was not surprising the party’s ranking committee rejected his pleas for a higher place. To do otherwise would have looked weak and put even more noses out of joint.
…and here’s Paddy…
Willie Jackson has gone all “sooky-bubba” and made the Labour list announcement all about his fall.
It is unfortunate because it should be about the rise of newcomer Willow-Jean Prime.
Rather than Willie’s falling star, the story should be about Willow-Jean’s rising one.
…and here’s Rodney fucking Hide…
Williams demonstrated Labour lacks discipline and is not a team. Whatever good was achieved by parachuting in Jackson was undone.
…and here’s Mike Williams…
Broadcaster, urban Maori authority luminary, and former Alliance Party MP Willie Jackson managed to spoil what should have been a very good news story for Andrew Little and Labour by letting the world know that he was apparently (briefly) unhappy with his placement on the yet-to-be announced list.
…but why didn’t these corporate mainstream media stooges give the same level of attention to 4 outright lies committed by the National Party this week?
The Government have been caught lying about Charter schools.
They’ve been caught lying about prison reoffending rates and are now hiding those stats.
They’ve been caught lying about beneficiaries on drugs.
and they’ve been caught lying about social housing.
But those lies weren’t the focus of our mainstream media corporate pundits, oh no, it’s all about the disarray Labour are supposedly in and Willie Jackson being an uppity Maori that dominates the dialogue.
No wonder National poll over 40%. With a compliant corporate media, it’s surprising they aren’t polling over 60%!
Don’t believe these corporate media mouthpieces, support your local political blogs to provide the balance.
Add the fifth lie about the ‘social investment approach’:
Here are OIA responses by MSD from last November:
https://www.msd.govt.nz/about-msd-and-our-work/publications-resources/official-information-responses/2016/responses-to-oia-requests-november-2016.html
Not long ago a response on the ‘Health and Disability Investment Approach’ was available, from Nov. , but now is is NO longer available:
https://www.msd.govt.nz/documents/about-msd-and-our-work/publications-resources/official-information-responses/2016/r-20161110-response-health-and-disability-investment-approach-update.pdf
‘Page not found’ is all that shows now, it seems to have been pulled down again.
The reason may be that a report that was part of that response revealed the failure of their so called ‘mental health employment services’, which showed NO improvement in them trying to get mental health sufferers on sickness related benefits off benefits and into work.
At least the Herald reported on this fail:
http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11514141
The media do not bother researching this area of policy further, so all people tend to get is the government propaganda on how great their ‘investment approach’ is.
Further to a comment just made, which was re a fifth lie by the government, on their so called ‘social investment approach’ and its supposedly great results, here is a PDF with OIA questions and answers that reveals how ‘mental health employment service’ trials were a failure:
https://www.msd.govt.nz/documents/about-msd-and-our-work/publications-resources/official-information-responses/2016/november/20161123-questions-re-work-to-wellness-services-and-mental-health-employment-services-va15546757.pdf
Read the report on the effectiveness of that trial from page onwards, and you can see the failure of their trial.
But it appears the MSM are more interested in discussing personalities of candidates standing for Labour, than to report on such more important matters.
Hence we get NO info about this in the MSM.
From page 60 on in that PDF loadable under the above link, a report shows no positive effectiveness of mental health employment services trials by MSD.