MEDIAWATCH: Look – I’ve been blacklisted by Newshub and even I see its importance

I’ve been banned form RNZ, blackballed by NZME and if we can ever harness the energy that The Democracy Project exerts each week to fastidiously ignore The Daily Blog, we’d solve climate change, look – I’ve been blacklisted by Newshub and even I see its importance!

The Newshub Schadenfreude by some is disgraceful and deeply ignorant.

I never thought I could despise someone more than I despise Chantelle. Normally evangelical Christians should be mocked for daring to think they can enter the debate, but this one takes arrogance and self delusion to extraordinary new levels.  Chantelle isn’t the only one, lots of cooker antivaxxers who believe the mainstream media aren’t focused on their quack science or racist garbage are all being gleeful over Newshub’s demise.

Newshub imploding because they didn’t platform your Qanon claims of a shadowy one world Government ‘plandemic’ is like a book burner angry their poem didn’t get published.

Newshub is infrastructure! It’s like the Cook Straits Ferry, or the fucking Harbour Bridge, you can’t just leave Newshub to implode! Ignoring the enormous impact they have for journalism because your redneck ignorance isn’t being broadcast is simply fascism and that is where much of the Alt-Right are moving towards right now, fascism.

Ultimately Newshubs demise is a story of ruthless Trans National interests and geopolitical cultural hegemony.

Corporate Hollywood soft power wants to continue its cultural dominance as the South Pacific friction continues between US & China.

New Zealand is an important plank for American hegemony in the South Pacific and as China and American competition heats up, Warners Bros suddenly buying a large stake in our media was always a geopolitical calculation over a commercial one.

Cultural dominance doesn’t require nor want an active journalism, so they will keep the channel open purely as a means of dominating domestic culture without any of the Fourth Estate Obligations.

That bitter angry feeling you have watching Warner Bros destroy our Fourth Estate is righteous.

They bought a media outlet that has a 35 year history of being a structural part of our media environment and dumping it trashes their social licence in this country.

That feeling of rage you have watching a multibillion Trans National vandalise our environment is going to be repeated the millisecond you see the American mining interests lining up to mine Conservation land with all their promises to repair anything they break.

Remember – the Trans National ain’t your friend regardless of its pronouns!

We can’t allow Newshub to go under any more than we can simply allow one of the lanes of the Harbour Bridge just fall off without any repair!

This Government is giving away a billion each year to the richest amongst us as a tax cut

If Newshub was Big Tobacco, a gun lobbyist or rich landlord wanting a tax loop hole, they’d already be saved.

 

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