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A commentary on media double standards in a time of selective outrage.
News Briefing: 16 May 2025
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards PARLIAMENT, PAY EQUITY, THE C-WORD Joel MacManus (Spinoff): Echo Chamber: A C-bomb explodes in parliament Cherie Howie (Herald): Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters blasts behaviour in Parliament as ‘degradation’ Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Inside ‘the House of Chaos’: Six days that saw Parliament
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The lesson here? If the legacy media wants to sling slurs and gendered insults, they’d better be ready for the blowback. And if they’re going to cry foul when someone like van Velden fights back, they might want to take a long, hard, look in the mirror.
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“I think Brooke van Velden felt the outrage that many women in the parliament felt this week when that word is used a term of abuse for women, no matter what side of politics you are on, we should say it is not ok” – Willis
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