I’m sure the Herald will break out the red ink front page editorial about this attack of democracy any day now.

If I was the Herald Deputy of News and I got a result like that back from my audience, I wouldn’t be crowing about it, I’d be drastically changing my reporting to better reflect reality.

Lol hey turns out if you read the Herald and their constant fear-mongering disinfo it gives you absurd results like this

As usual for right-wingers like Mike Hosking, every accusation is a confession.

Well that’s certainly the headline the government wanted when they drew it up on the whiteboard, cheers NZME, job done.

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The US president watching Fox News and thinking that it’s an accurate representation of reality (leading to him invading Portland), is a bit like the NZ Prime Minister listening to NewstalkZB and thinking he’s doing a great job. In both cases, the media knows exactly how influential it is.

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

Whether it’s Joe Biden attending weekly mass or Donald Trump’s ICE agents shooting a priest in the face with a pepper ball, presidents of both sides have directly engaged with the Catholic faith.

Headline vs reality.

Would love to see this done for NZ media.

You can see the absolute rage Bridge has for Swarbrick here. Last time I saw him this angry was when Michael Wood accused him of making excuses for the violent anti-mandate protesters (which, to be clear, he was). He really hates the left challenging his lil bubble of contempt.

There’s all sorts of ways you can frame the same story, isn’t there.

weird how the actual answer, "he has been a habitual liar his entire life," is never considered here

Begging media folk to do their job here.

The most interesting part of this to me is the Media Council acknowledging the story came from a group with an agenda and that media should therefore be wary of that agenda and work to counter it in their stories. This might be news to quite a few journos.

Because that’s how it always works? Media is “leaked” (given) stories to shape the public narrative and the media knows and goes along with it. The letter was never meant for Hipkins.

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

and they say journalism is dead

Unreal. The casual reader of this @nytimes.com hed and subhed will have no inkling whatsoever that Trump's "characterization" is wildly false and that it's a bad faith *pretext.* Time to get better at conveying the fundamentally pretextual nature of these authoritarian decrees already.

Meanwhile NZ outlets can’t even be bothered changing “Tylenol” in their headlines so most of their audience wouldn’t know he’s talking about paracetamol.

NZME's Ryan Bridge's examples of "extreme, radical ideas" a political party could campaign on are... a separate Māori parliament, and re-nationalising power companies.

Mmm, very scary, Ryan.

He has three sons

it’s insane how mainstream media still uniformly acts like 2024 was a watershed, Reaganesque societal turning point when it’s obvious ~15% of Americans just swung it because they thought there actually was a “make eggs cheaper” button Joe Biden was refusing to hit.