Strategically this is a vicious knifing of RNZ by TVNZ. With Clare Curran on the sidelines begging to give away public money, Checkpoint with Campbell was the most obvious target, but TVNZ have taken that target and left RNZ with a mammoth hole to fill.
The biggest loser here however is Mediaworks and the Project.
Let’s get real here, Winston roasts Duncan every time he is on air, and someone with the kind of thin skin Duncs has would have been sweating it out having Winston on him for 6 weeks. Could a breakfast show with the very low ratings of The AM Show seriously toss aside one of the only reasons to watch the show for 6 weeks?
Yesterday, Matthew Hooton wrote a column in the NZ Herald that claimed David Parker was corrupt.
Today that article seems to have gone missing???
Hold the phone blocker – someone on Twitter was offended at shitty TV show – it’s a shocker on the rocker!
Mix this media contempt for the poor with many middle class landowners who now have tenants in their precious investment portfolios and the fear of a loss of capital gains mixed with neoliberal cultural disgust at self failure for being poor in the first place, and you had all the self interested ingredients and momentum for hysteria to take over.
It must be dawning on Labour that Jacinda’s inclusivity is only going to get them so far. Grant bent over backwards with this budget to prove Labour will serve our corporate overlords well and not spook the horses, yet business hasn’t reciprocated and are still throwing tantrums.
What is the most pressing issue of right now?
According to the NZ Herald Troll Farm it isn’t the needless spending of $100m on meth testing, oh no.
Every day that passes, the enormity of what has been perpetrated on the poorest and weakest grows.
If The AM Show keeps Willie Jackson on up against Judith we will finally have an actual debate between Left and Right that is for the first time in NZ history balanced.
Every NZ media outlet who this morning don’t lead with the $100m meth contamination scam but were busy feeding it for Paula Bennett at the height of the hysteria should all be ashamed of themselves – you aren’t journalists, you are fucking pimps!
