MEDIAWATCH: An alt-Right extremist who set up a failed alt-Right media experiment promises alt-Right Billionaire isn’t extreme
What the Holy Christ is this sophistry???
An NZME board nominee has given insight into how a Jim Grenon-led board would approach the company’s editorial endeavour, saying the NZ Herald needs to embrace being a curator rather than a gatekeeper of content to help improve quality and trust.
Board nominee Philip Crump says Grenon, a businessman and expatriate Canadian who has been living in New Zealand since 2012, is neither a “political extremist” nor would the Herald serve the same purpose as Grenon’s earlier media venture, Centrist.
Lawyer and blogger Crump, writing on his ‘Thomas Cranmer’ Substack page on Monday morning, also took a swipe at the existing NZME board, saying it was surprising to see most of the directors “resisting a refresh that aligns with both shareholder sentiment and governance norms”.
Wait!
Wait!
Wait the fuck up!
Comrades
Philip Crump IS A FUCKING ALT-RIGHT EXTREMIST!!!!
He attempted to set up ZB Plus with Atlas Network adjacent Oliver Hartwich, Redneck adjacent Muriel Newman, and Bussy adjacent Ani O’Brien FFS!
ZB Plus was NZMEs attempt at The Platform FFS!
Crump was appointed to NZ on Air by Paul Goldsmith FFS, whose views on colonialism being great for da Maoris and his drive to give the Exploited Migrant Tobacco Guild vigilante powers is a crushed velvet Jack Boot towards a Police State.
Fuck Paul Goldsmith as the arbitrator of what is and isn’t extremism!
Crump ignited the 3 waters as an existential race war FFS! Crump is an alt-right culture war extremist who is promising you that the bloke who wants to make him an Editorial Nazgul isn’t also a culture war extremist!
Let me get this straight.
An alt-Right extremist like Philip Crump, who set up a failed alt-Right media experiment promises alt-Right Billionaire Jim Grenon isn’t extreme?
You aren’t this fucking stupid right?
The fact that Crumpy is running into this debate to give his mate cover actually gives away the bluff!
I want to play poker with Crumpy!
To date the play has been Jim swoops in, chops up the best parts of the asset and everyone makes a quick killing.
The danger however is that the vulture capitalism is just a front and that Grenon wants editorial power to launch a culture war revenge fantasy news platform.
The argument against him doing this is that a sudden and violent lurch in editorial direction would see advertiser boycotts and readership boycotts which would drive down the share price, but as I have pointed out numerous times, if Grenon is in this for the culture war, he doesn’t give a fuck if the share price falls, in fact it will allow him yo buy more and this sudden realisation is what is making other share holders back off as the realities of what an alt-Right Billionaire culture war revenge fantasist could do sink in.
THAT is why Crump is racing around trying to claim Grenon isn’t a grievance culture war acolyte who would mutate one of our largest Fourth Estate Platform into weaponised social malice.
We have enough Billionaires owning media, why allow more?
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Sounds like the Herald will have tits on page three in short order.