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NZ television has become so dreadfully dull and misleading that I never watch. I’m pretty confident that I’m representative of the New Zealand audience at large that has abandoned MSM in droves.
Typically, as has been mentioned on this site on numerous occasions, you can hear them squealing from miles away about how irrelevant they’ve become, yet it never occurs to them to pose the questions: ‘Why are they abandoning us? Why do they hate us so?’
It’s because you prove daily what f**kwits you are and how you can’t be trusted to be factual in what you report.
Worse, you knowingly don’t ask the questions you should be asking if they don’t fit your narrative (whatever dysfunctional background might have brought you to it) and you’re happy to ignore obvious examples of highly dubious shit that you should be ripping the covers off and exposing. Covid and the garbage dumped on the entire population by the Ardern Government (and – for what it’s worth – our entire parliament at that time) are graphic illustrations of complete journalistic incompetence across the board.
I mean seriously – didn’t any of you ever think to ask, ‘How serious is this ’flu really?’ ‘The numbers look pretty extreme: where did these ‘modellers’ get their figures from?’ ‘If this Covid thing is so serious, how come the rules are so fluid?’ (Consider what would have happened and does happen with Ebola, as an example!)
Then, when New Zealanders had had a guts full, you sided with the Government against the people. Did you think to ask, ‘Why is the speaker of the house playing music loudly at protestors and/or turning sprinklers on them?’ What about, ‘How come no MPs are coming out to talk to these people?’ I mean, that’s never happened before. Somebody, somewhere has always come out to listen to protestors, to take their message. It’s just part of how a democracy works.
Not one member of parliament fronted and not one of you lying cowards in the media asked why.
Don’t ask me to waste everybody’s time providing more details: We all lived that period and we all know that media world-wide were complicit, either by intent (talk about misinformation) or by omission (again, talk about misinformation). Hang your heads in shame and do better. Do your jobs or FO! I say we’re tired of you – and few New Zealanders would disagree with me.
Actually – you’re never going to get there. Now the writing’s on the wall – you may as well just FO – you’re part of history. Nobody cares any more what happens to you. You’re confirmed peddlers of fake news! You only have what little audience still hangs in there with you because their TVs and radios (and subscriptions) are rusted on the dial of history. It’s not because you’re any good – it’s because humans are creatures of habit and old habits die hard. But times are changing – slowly but surely and none of you need me to tell you that. The outcome is inevitable. The pendulum has swung too far. You’ve done your dash.
Just reflect on the daily ramblings you unquestioningly subjected us to during Covid. Ardern and Bloomfield, Michael Baker, the pink-haired one...We waited for national TV and radio to ask some half-probing questions.
You didn’t ask then and you aren’t asking now (witness the narrative being followed with the Treaty Principles Bill).
Today, I sit at my keyboard totally bemused. Given the bullshit the media dealt us over the past five years, how does New Zealand’s (once) premium newspaper publish a headline: “Green Party MP Benjamin Doyle admits political naïvety in refusing to delete social media posts”?
What does that even mean?
Doyle may well be politically naïve (or completely stupid) and, frankly, I don’t care either way. He is intellectually and morally deficient and doesn’t belong in parliament. Between dickheads like Doyle and Te Pāti Māori – they’re just a bunch of exhibitionist pole dancers – specify just one thing they’ve done that’s of any use to anybody. Our parliament has become a three-ring circus that Barnum and Bailey would have been proud of.
Who thinks it’s a good idea to have list MPs in parliament?
Let’s not mince words. Let’s cut to the chase: People like Doyle (and most of the Green Party for that matter) are unelected yet, gratuitously and totally contrary to the actual principles of democracy (where the electorate chooses), MPs are selected that none of us would vote for in a million years. For the record: I don’t care much for any list MPs from any party. MMP is a fiasco of epidemic proportions. We can be so proud of the dregs it’s brought to our highest public office.
WTF has happened to New Zealand? How can we entertain the idea of having some of these unqualified and morally corrupt people in our parliament?
I challenge Winston Peters and New Zealand First to stand up and honour what they promised in 2017: a referendum on the Māori seats and a commitment to stand firm on appropriate principles and standards for MPs in terms of dress code and behaviour.
The New Zealand parliament is not and should not be a three-ring circus where people, regardless of their cultural background, can be allowed to grandstand – be it with the wearing of cowboy hats or performing figurative pole dances.
