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A humorous and short clip was shown on the Stuff website on Tuesday showing the predictable media scrum made up of the predictable so-called journalists at Wellington Airport lying in wait to pounce on their posse, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. They had no doubt risen early to ready themselves for this momentous moment (men smartly dressed and ladies with lipstick and powdered noses) when they could destroy the man there and then. These leftie luvvies appeared to be in a high state of excitement: salivating at the opportunity, following a bad poll, to relieve him of his prime ministership on the spot.
What transpired however was a complete letdown. Not that the prime minister was a no show – far from it. The problem for these unfit desk sitters was he approached them with such speed that, from a standing start, they had trouble keeping up with him. Knowing the predictable nonsense that was about to spout from their mouths, he answered by continuing to walk at speed and looking the other way admiring the view through the airport windows. The result of this was their microphones failed to pick up what he was saying. What was supposed to be the early ‘kill’ of the week became a complete joke.
The strategies of these so called journalists are no brighter than the questions they ask. They could have gotten themselves into a formation whereby they could have stopped Luxon in his tracks so the answers to their stupid questions could have been heard. Instead they became involved in a sprint to the finish line, which, if the Stuff video was accurate, was reached before they had barely got three questions out. It turned out to be a non-event in more ways than one. Their time would have been better spent having a lie-in.
The questions were the same tired ones trotted out every time there’s a bad poll. The same could be said of the answers. Where does the media think the interest lies in an approach that is without originality and has been done to death? For the public, it is a non-news item. Of course the media don’t think so because their interest lies simply between themselves and their typewriters or cameras. They don’t think about constructing the story in a way that might get the attention of their audience – people they in fact don’t care about. This is just political point scoring.
Asking the same silly questions and expecting different answers is really dumb journalism but this is no more than we’ve come to expect from the left-wing media. Like their political friends they are consumed by propaganda and lies. These so-called journalists, who should be undertaking in-depth analyses, allow themselves to become nothing more than the simpletons of their profession. They are obviously not bothered by this, because they turn up nightly on our television screens to preach to the people who masochistically tune in.
Most of us of sound mind gave up on them years ago. I have watched journalists on GB News in the UK, along with Fox News and Newsmax in America, flummox politicians with their in-depth questioning, but not the left-wing media who concentrate on bias, misinformation and point scoring. Anything resembling in depth journalism seems to be beyond them or, more likely, they regard it as too much like hard work.
It is unfortunate that that we only have left-wing media outlets here; hence we are very poorly served, informed and educated by these types masquerading as journalists. This is why the government should defund both TVNZ and RNZ who continuously spout left-wing lies and false narratives. Their CEOs should be ashamed. In order to try and redeem themselves, both organisations got reviews done by their leftie professional friends, which were nothing more than shams.
It’s beyond time the broadcasting minister dealt to this fiasco. Our money is being wasted on organisations that we don’t believe in, don’t want and don’t need. What we want is objective journalism. The lame excuse from the minister that he can’t interfere due to political independence doesn’t wash. If you applied that logic to all areas of government, it would render itself impotent. Some would say, in certain areas, that is indeed the case.
As at the airport, the media, in terms of objectivity and in depth journalism, is failing to fly. This needs to change and the only person who can bring it about is the minister. It would be an electoral win, something this coalition is now badly in need of. Step up to the plate, minister. The time is now.
Footnote: Three News is in the same boat (waka in their first language).
