NZ Corporate Media Awards Itself While Journalism Burns

NZ corporate media gathered to applaud itself while the Fourth Estate is being torched by political interference, social media rage bait and tech billionaires stealing the advertising model that once paid for journalism.

This year’s legacy media awards were the usual self-congratulation for relevancy as the Institution of Fourth Estate Journalism is drowned out by social media hate clicks.

One side of the Media duopoly congratulates the other side of the Media duopoly with public broadcasters pretending they can be just as precious as Mike Hosking.

NZ corporate media is celebrating inside a burning building

The Broadcasting Standards Authority is being torched because angry right-wing activists think the BSA is the Ministry of Woke.

Maiki was hounded out of her role because angry right-wing activists never forgave her for her first poll that saw the Government slump.

RNZ boss steps down because David Seymour was promising angry right-wing activists that he’d give John Campbell (and everyone involved in hiring John) the bash.

Winston lies and lies and lies and lies and lies about the media being bribed by Jacinda to love da Māoris and promote vaccines with WHO nanobots in them.

The Fourth Estate is being politically kneecapped

But sure, have a dinner and pretend this level of political interference in the Fourth Estate six months out from an election is all perfectly normal while social media tech gods make everyone unemployed using AI to monopolise ad revenue.

It’s like they are holding an awards ceremony in Trump’s burning ballroom and congratulating themselves on the catering.