Yesterday Andrew Dickens ( Newstalk ZB ) was worried sick because Jacinda had missed her ten minute chat with Mike Hosking – a mortal sin that deserved a load of fake bullshit and fist shaking revenge.
…that’s right folks, Dairy doesn’t shit into our rivers or steal our water! They didn’t get National to privatise 49% of our state owned energy assets to create an irrigation slush fund worth $400million to convert as many square inches of NZ into intensified dairy farms! No, they create a miracle juice that helps the sick and needy while keeping our rivers clean.
If this is the fourth estate holding power to account, power is having a field day.
Journalists should be interested in their pursuit of the truth here – not sweep this stuff aside.
National had successfully told the press to bugger off and talk about something else – like Karel Sroubek for five weeks.
Now Ross was guilty of bringing up the matters they thought they had artfully dodged.
None of this context was covered in Stacey’s article today.
I am hoping that New Zealanders are smarter than this, but I also fear that a cultural backlash to the woke may propel the New Conservatives into a position of power.
I was personally pretty cynical towards the Gillette advert and wrote it off as corporate woke wash, but watching in disbelief at Roastbusters wanting to launch a music career this week forces me to put that cynicism aside and acknowledge the deep need for the message Gillette is pushing.
Shame on ZB, shame on NZ Herald and shame on Dickens. Allow the father to grieve his dead children before you start pissing all over him for clickbait you spiteful sanctimonious arseholes.
If we are finished misidentifying annoying British tourists as Irish and chasing them out of town for littering – the planet is melting…
…after being busted as a self censoring propaganda outlet for China, the advert should look like this…
How many times does the NZ Herald have to be caught promoting manipulative and secret interests before you write it off as a legitimate source?