Nat/act/nzf 2023

[Daytr]

The real BS was spun when the Great Left A-Wipe & Largest Hole of modern times pulled the string on the deduction in first place b*llsh!tting all that it was the Private LL faction to blame foe everything all along .. Since then, the woeful state of Labour's grandiose & clueless efforts on homelessness, housing, poverty has been laid bare for all to see

Strangely few of Labour's past dreaming & squatting talent responsible for the shambles have been game to open their silly little cakeholes since

So what's NAFT's excuse for not reintroducing straight away? Fiscal whole in NAFT's budget that selling out to the smoking & gun lobby can't cover.

[Balance]

So what's NAFT's excuse for not reintroducing straight away? Fiscal whole in NAFT's budget that selling out to the smoking & gun lobby can't cover.

Nope - gotto get rid of the fiscal drag from the parasites, beneficiaries and losers bred by Ardern & Hipkins to the tune of tens of billions of dollars.

That’s why - very simple reason.

[Balance]

MSM deserves everything they get - sooner they all go the way of the dodo, the better.

https://www.downtoearth.kiwi/post/no...ray-the-public

The truth is our Big Media colluded with the Ardern-Hipkins government to end our democracy by joining them at the hip to ensure no rival views about the decision to lock Auckland down in late 2021, race relations, the environment, nor economic management, were allowed to gain traction.

The public has not forgiven its' betrayal.

Big Media did its' utmost to shut down the contest of ideas that lies at the heart of our democracy, where opposing views are aired to keep the government honest, whatever its political colors. Not content with helping fix the election in 2020, Big Media also tried fixing our 2023 election. It failed.

I have proof. It's contained in a bunch of my articles rejected between 2021 and 2023 by Big Media which constituted some of my best work - like "The Unravelling of NZ's Economic Strategy", "Jacindanomics Does not Exist" and "How our Kingdom of Kindness Lost its Way".

At the same time, a vast collection of writing & preaching by other academics across NZ - the Chosen Ones in cahoots with Ardern and Hipkins - was widely disseminated by that same Big Media.

Not even my mild critiques of Ardern and Hipkins were permitted, whereas critiques by others describing politicians like Seymour and Luxon as "bull-****ting", "lying" pricks was splashed across the front pages. Whenever I used a word 1% as strong to describe Ardern or Hipkins, it was edited out by Big Media. The only outlet that would publish my articles became the fringe National Business Review. It is why I started this Blog.

[mistaTea]

MSM deserves everything they get - sooner they all go the way of the dodo, the better.

https://www.downtoearth.kiwi/post/no...ray-the-public

The truth is our Big Media colluded with the Ardern-Hipkins government to end our democracy by joining them at the hip to ensure no rival views about the decision to lock Auckland down in late 2021, race relations, the environment, nor economic management, were allowed to gain traction.

The public has not forgiven its' betrayal.

Big Media did its' utmost to shut down the contest of ideas that lies at the heart of our democracy, where opposing views are aired to keep the government honest, whatever its political colors. Not content with helping fix the election in 2020, Big Media also tried fixing our 2023 election. It failed.

I have proof. It's contained in a bunch of my articles rejected between 2021 and 2023 by Big Media which constituted some of my best work - like "The Unravelling of NZ's Economic Strategy", "Jacindanomics Does not Exist" and "How our Kingdom of Kindness Lost its Way".

At the same time, a vast collection of writing & preaching by other academics across NZ - the Chosen Ones in cahoots with Ardern and Hipkins - was widely disseminated by that same Big Media.

Not even my mild critiques of Ardern and Hipkins were permitted, whereas critiques by others describing politicians like Seymour and Luxon as "bull-****ting", "lying" pricks was splashed across the front pages. Whenever I used a word 1% as strong to describe Ardern or Hipkins, it was edited out by Big Media. The only outlet that would publish my articles became the fringe National Business Review. It is why I started this Blog.

Thanks for sharing.

There will be more kicking and screaming by the MSM before we see the much-needed reset.

All I want is a reliable source of balanced news reporting. No more. No less.

I would be equally disgusted if they decided to ‘bend the knee’ to the current govt and started only reporting favourable stories about National, ACT and NZF.

I just want some balance.

[Ferg]

Hear hear.

Glad to see you used the lower case "b" in your final sentence.

[Balance]

Thanks for sharing.

There will be more kicking and screaming by the MSM before we see the much-needed reset.

All I want is a reliable source of balanced news reporting. No more. No less.

I would be equally disgusted if they decided to ‘bend the knee’ to the current govt and started only reporting favourable stories about National, ACT and NZF.

I just want some balance.

Agree with you absolutely.

What we have had in the last 6 years under Ardern & Hipkins was an absolute disgrace and is still a blight on democracy, fairness and transparency due to the duplicity of MSM sucking up to woke & socialism promoted by Labour and to the $55m thrown their way. Corruption in no uncertain terms.

‘Most transparent government ever’ Ardern. She can kiss our collective arses for the hypocrite and freak show that she is.

[Balance]

Just in time NZers woke up and kicked out the most manipulative and incompetent government in October 2023.

Yet another example of Ardern, Hipkins and the Labour government loading and populating entities with their biased appointees which are supposed to be objective in pursuit of the truth :

https://hatchardreport.com/royal-com...ine-promotion/

"A 30 second YouTube video with 331,000 views entitled “Look back to move forward – Royal Commission of Inquiry into COVID-19 Lessons Learned” is paired with New Zealand Government material promoting Covid vaccination.

The comments section below the video is turned off. Clearly the Royal Commission organisers don’t want us to be able to make public comments accessible to others or hold online conversations around the topic. They want to control the flow of information. The video turns up frequently as an advertisement on YouTube which interrupts your viewing. In essence, it manipulates the viewer towards a feel good framework and creates a bland narrative that obfuscates the issues."

[mistaTea]

Agree with you absolutely.

What we have had in the last 6 years under Ardern & Hipkins was an absolute disgrace and is still a blight on democracy, fairness and transparency due to the duplicity of MSM sucking up to woke & socialism promoted by Labour and to the $55m thrown their way. Corruption in no uncertain terms.

‘Most transparent government ever’ Ardern. She can kiss our collective arses for the hypocrite and freak show that she is.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...MVFYNKNDIHJ5U/

Kicking and screaming continuing as predicted. Haymakers at Winston and David weren't working, so there are Board Room brawls going on now.

All good, perfectly natural response for an organisation that has not accepted the root cause of their demise yet.

But interestingly, some comments from Barbs:

Dreaver told 1News last night: “We need really strong leadership and we expect to get it. And I’m quite happy to call out and challenge it [and] my own bosses when we don’t get that, just as I would a politician or any other person who deserves it.”

And this throwaway comment I feel is where a lot of these guys come unstuck. It absolutely is the medias role to provide transparency to the masses about what is going on. But it has to be done in an impartial way.

When I read comments like that from Barbara however, it seems that many of them get confused and feel it is their job to express their personal opinion under the guise of 'calling out' and 'challenging' our politicians and other leaders. In other words, they decide who 'deserves it' based on their own world view. Tut, tut - that is a big no no.

And this is typically what we observe in the tone and bias of reporting. Journalists with set views on how the world should be unable to separate that from reporting the news.

Look at the latest about depreciation tax deductibilty. After further negotiations, Act agreed to not backdate it and kick it off from 1 April. Headlines screaming 'Deal broken!!!' all over the show. That was the focus - that one coalition party had broken their deal with another as opposed to a more balanced report that the parties have negotiated a later start date due to x, y and z.

I don't remember any screaming headlines like that when we were years into Auckland Fuel Tax and zero construction on the train.

I don't remember any screaming headlines like that when Auckland was 80% plus vaccinated and still about to enter our fourth lockdown. The vast majority had complied with the request to get vaccinated so where was the screaming "Deal broken!!!!" headlines then as more businesses and livelihoods were put at stake?

I could go on.

Until these guys can remember the basis of their fundamental role in society, and separate their own personal views from their work they will continue to suffer. When your newspaper becomes a glorified socialist opinion piece, your audience is going to diminish.

Remember when she upset Frank with her biased reporting for a do-gooding Western audience? Fiji is a country I have various ties to, and though poverty is an issue like many 'third world' country I can tell you now the experience of the vast majority is nothing like what Barbs would have you believe.

[Blue Skies]

Hey people, the term 'Main Stream Media' hints at what it is, broadly in the main or middle stream of the media landscape & mainstream society.

If you think the MSM is extreme, either socialist communist, or fascist & the level of rage you feel towards them, do you ever think maybe its time for some self reflection about where your beliefs & attitudes sit in relation to mainstream society?


Just FYI of every $1 dollar spent on advertising in NZ, 90c of it now goes offshore to X formally Twitter, or Facebook, You Tube etc.
That leaves just 10c to be spread among TV1, Newshub, the Herald, Stuff, ODT, all the Radio Stations around NZ, all the local newspapers, magazines etc to survive on.

The problem with this is people thinking they will just get their news off online sources like X or Facebook or You Tube, are being force fed information through algorithms which are designed to prioritise antagonising them, over informing them, to keep them returning for more.

You can see it in the way people are becoming increasingly polarised, obsessive & even deluded & the levels of hate & anger increasing off the scale.

Without some sort of govt funding of media OR the hugely powerful giants like X & Facebook agreeing to pay for some of the local news content they platform, we won't have any local news or investigative journalists left to cover the issues which are important to NZ'ers.

[mistaTea]

Hey people, the term 'Main Stream Media' hints at what it is, broadly in the main or middle stream of the media landscape & mainstream society.

If you think the MSM is extreme, either socialist communist, or fascist & the level of rage you feel towards them, do you ever think maybe its time for some self reflection about where your beliefs & attitudes sit in relation to mainstream society?


Just FYI of every $1 dollar spent on advertising in NZ, 90c of it now goes offshore to X formally Twitter, or Facebook, You Tube etc.
That leaves just 10c to be spread among TV1, Newshub, the Herald, Stuff, ODT, all the Radio Stations around NZ, all the local newspapers, magazines etc to survive on.

The problem with this is people thinking they will just get their news off online sources like X or Facebook or You Tube, are being force fed information through algorithms which are designed to prioritise antagonising them, over informing them, to keep them returning for more.

You can see it in the way people are becoming increasingly polarised, obsessive & even deluded & the levels of hate & anger increasing off the scale.

Without some sort of govt funding of media OR the hugely powerful giants like X & Facebook agreeing to pay for some of the local news content they platform, we won't have any local news or investigative journalists left to cover the issues which are important to NZ'ers.

he he.

Nice attempt to gaslight, and good to see you can copy/paste the arguments that media are making.

I don't use social media at all, so you can't pigeon hole me as some redneck that Facebook is taking advantage of with its algorithms.

The changing landscape of where ad dollars is going is a big factor in the current state of things. I don't think anyone is suggesting that their demise is only because of their poor journalism. But it is being suggested that they are hastening their demise in what is already a tough gig by their one-sided reporting.

This is likely further decreasing their audience, making the ad dollars fall even faster.

You are not going to attract the masses back to your platform for a paid sub if your journalism is biased.