My normally reliable, indeed immaculate, sources have been unable to confirm the veracity of all of what I am about to say, but, given the import of its content, and in consideration of you good people who deserve to be ahead of the news, well ahead in many cases, I am going out on a limb, so to speak, to bring you this valuable snippet.
Remember Stuff‘ owner Sinead Boucher‘s, shameless admission to Red Radio on December 13th that her new enterprise’s cultural self-evisceration, the prejudiced Pakeha put-down project ‘Our Truth: Pou Tiaki’ is, as we fully suspected, just a grubby ‘all about the money’ prostration to the altar of post-modern palaver, and pure greed for taxpayer’s dollars?
Even knowing that it would cost her mastheads readership, Boucher didn’t care and arrogantly dismissed the disappointed:
“Some had cancelled their newspaper subscriptions, because they didn’t like the idea of examining the past, or making an apology to Maori for the harm reporters had caused and the silencing of Maori voices.”
Sinead Boucher
Really? Perhaps they cancelled because of the trite, juvenile, poorly-researched, one-eyed, out-of-context, not-worth-paying-for, complete rubbish it truly is? Like the subscriber Sinead quoted:
“These included one caller who complained about “the five pages of b……. you made me read this morning”.
Sinead Boucher
Boucher finally comes clean, in paragraph 29, of 31:
“She is looking to Labour’s promised second package for media that is aimed at supporting regional journalism.”
Radio NZ AKA “Red Radio”
Told ya’. Shameless.
Anyway; so far, so factual. The next bit you have to take with a grain of salt. It is being said, in certain circles, that Rod Derrot‘s 1960’s masterpiece has been re-written as a kind of New Year’s honouring to Ms Boucher’s more-than-significantly-stupid moral preening. Make of it what you will:
Down at the press pool,
Once upon at time,
In the Land of the Long White Cloud.
The hungry scribes all gathered for a meetin’,
A maiden warrior spoke to the crowd:
‘Pae kare team; I’ve had enough,
Of Stuff gettin’ Moa-bone stew,
If you wanna put some meat’n to the kai that you been eatin’,
I gotta new soup for you, I call it:
Brouhaha and Pakeha,
Brouhaha and Pakeha,
I think we’ll give a hangi for the Treaty of Waitangi –
We can all get fat on that!
Just put in:
Brouhaha and Pakeha….’
Apologies in advance to Mr Rod Derrot.
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