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After Paddy Gower’s mea culpa over his role in boosting Ardern’s Covid programme, we now have HDPA admitting the MSM may have abused the public’s trust (including over the Treaty Principles Bill): “I don’t feel sorry for the media in general for what’s coming. We’ve had this coming. For years, we’ve collectively pushed a certain world view through the framing of our stories. We decide who the victim is, who the bad guy is and what language we use – labelling things as “controversial” to signal to the audience that something is bad, like the “controversial Treaty Principles Bill”.
Graham Adams
While most of the media has been utterly tone deaf about the whole Maiki Sherman issue, Heather du Plessis-Allan absolutely gets it.
— 𝓑𝓸𝓫 𝓜𝓬𝓒𝓸𝓼𝓴𝓻𝓲𝓮 🇳🇿 (@bobmccoskrienz) May 10, 2026
This is worth the 54 second listen pic.twitter.com/11X6QsEryg
