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NZME's Heather du Plessis-Allan attacks those "terrified" of AI, including "unions convinced AI will take jobs".
AI of course could never take Heather's job. It takes real skill and humanity to do what she does.
AI of course could never take Heather's job. It takes real skill and humanity to do what she does.
December 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
NZME's Heather du Plessis-Allan attacks those "terrified" of AI, including "unions convinced AI will take jobs".
AI of course could never take Heather's job. It takes real skill and humanity to do what she does.
AI of course could never take Heather's job. It takes real skill and humanity to do what she does.
This is NZME's first story on the UN report. They lead with attacks from right-wing politicians.
What in the report is laughable? What are the facts?
Always tone over substance.
What in the report is laughable? What are the facts?
Always tone over substance.
December 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
This is NZME's first story on the UN report. They lead with attacks from right-wing politicians.
What in the report is laughable? What are the facts?
Always tone over substance.
What in the report is laughable? What are the facts?
Always tone over substance.
I didn't actually think the TPU debate was a "deliberate false flag operation to make Willis seem more moderate than she really is" but now conservative commentators like Luke Malpass are going out of their way to tell us it's all accidental, I'm starting to believe.
December 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I didn't actually think the TPU debate was a "deliberate false flag operation to make Willis seem more moderate than she really is" but now conservative commentators like Luke Malpass are going out of their way to tell us it's all accidental, I'm starting to believe.
With John Key and his planking and peeing in the shower and his views on 50 Shades of Grey long gone, David Seymour is the new go-to for reporters who just have a story quota to fill. Better than doing work amiright
December 11, 2025 at 2:52 AM
With John Key and his planking and peeing in the shower and his views on 50 Shades of Grey long gone, David Seymour is the new go-to for reporters who just have a story quota to fill. Better than doing work amiright
So either a Stuff journalist really doesn't know what the Overton Window is (nor examples of real, provable false flags in history), or they do but they're being a condescending prick because they know damn well their job is to further the neoliberal austerity policies Willis and Richardson promote.
December 11, 2025 at 12:24 AM
So either a Stuff journalist really doesn't know what the Overton Window is (nor examples of real, provable false flags in history), or they do but they're being a condescending prick because they know damn well their job is to further the neoliberal austerity policies Willis and Richardson promote.
NZ Herald's Audrey Young having a fit of the vapours because pro-Palestine protesters dropped some leaflets in Parliament. You'll note Audrey hasn't said a condemning word against NZ being one of the few countries not to recognise Palestine.
Decorum over lives, as usual.
Decorum over lives, as usual.
December 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
NZ Herald's Audrey Young having a fit of the vapours because pro-Palestine protesters dropped some leaflets in Parliament. You'll note Audrey hasn't said a condemning word against NZ being one of the few countries not to recognise Palestine.
Decorum over lives, as usual.
Decorum over lives, as usual.
Taxpayer's Union trades on pretending they're not a right-wing org funded by big tobacco, so The Post giving their head of communications Tory Relf (on-the-nose name) an opinion column to obfuscate all that isn't informing the public imo.
Oh and they get their URL at the end too! How rare.
Oh and they get their URL at the end too! How rare.
December 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Taxpayer's Union trades on pretending they're not a right-wing org funded by big tobacco, so The Post giving their head of communications Tory Relf (on-the-nose name) an opinion column to obfuscate all that isn't informing the public imo.
Oh and they get their URL at the end too! How rare.
Oh and they get their URL at the end too! How rare.
I feel like this is exposing how the media can create stories out of thin air and make them run for as long as they want. It’s very obvious here with a Post opinion column being turned into something hacks ask politicians about, but now apply this everything: eg the economy is recovering narrative
December 8, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I feel like this is exposing how the media can create stories out of thin air and make them run for as long as they want. It’s very obvious here with a Post opinion column being turned into something hacks ask politicians about, but now apply this everything: eg the economy is recovering narrative
Name checks out.
December 8, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Name checks out.
Journalists in powerful positions like NZ Herald's Thomas Coughlan continue to whitewash the impact Ruth Richardson's budgets had on NZ, blaming her "speed" for the "generational recoil", like it was inevitable. Here's a summary from Wikipedia, which doesn't have to take calls from the TPU.
![Wikipedia: "A 2015 Treasury report said that inequality in New Zealand increased in the 1980s and 1990s but has been stable for the last 20 years[9] although another 2015 article said that New Zealand's rate of rise of inequality had been the highest in the OECD, and that New Zealand's inequality had previously been low by OECD standards.[10] The 1991 budget had profound social effects, child poverty rose from 15% in 1990 to 29% in 1994 while violent crime peaked between 1990 and 1997.[11][12] Income inequality also accelerated, New Zealand's GINI index rose from 0.30 in 1990 to 0.33 in 1996 and thereafter 0.34 at the turn of the century.[13] Poorer New Zealanders saw their standard of living fall from their 1984 level.[14] Unemployment also remained high for much of the decade, from 11% in 1991 to 6% in 1996 and then up again to 8% following the Asian Financial Crisis.[15]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qww25tudku2ftgzkp2hxzvjl/bafkreigw7x5y5yczku3qw3kdpkfvbqufv7a5eondtjforhidboygp6gj5e@jpeg)
December 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Journalists in powerful positions like NZ Herald's Thomas Coughlan continue to whitewash the impact Ruth Richardson's budgets had on NZ, blaming her "speed" for the "generational recoil", like it was inevitable. Here's a summary from Wikipedia, which doesn't have to take calls from the TPU.
NZ Herald's Thomas Coughlan once again complains about "lazy commentators" comparing Nicola Willis to Ruth Richardson, even though he then admits Richardson herself wants Willis to copy her devastating benefit cuts.
A lot of our media fell for Willis' "liberal" posing and can't admit it.
A lot of our media fell for Willis' "liberal" posing and can't admit it.
December 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
NZ Herald's Thomas Coughlan once again complains about "lazy commentators" comparing Nicola Willis to Ruth Richardson, even though he then admits Richardson herself wants Willis to copy her devastating benefit cuts.
A lot of our media fell for Willis' "liberal" posing and can't admit it.
A lot of our media fell for Willis' "liberal" posing and can't admit it.
NZ Herald: We guard our independence zealously!
Meanwhile its Head of Business just openly admits to advising NZTU's Jordan Williams that it's not appropriate to attack the government in their newspaper
Meanwhile its Head of Business just openly admits to advising NZTU's Jordan Williams that it's not appropriate to attack the government in their newspaper
December 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
NZ Herald: We guard our independence zealously!
Meanwhile its Head of Business just openly admits to advising NZTU's Jordan Williams that it's not appropriate to attack the government in their newspaper
Meanwhile its Head of Business just openly admits to advising NZTU's Jordan Williams that it's not appropriate to attack the government in their newspaper
I find it very funny that the NZ Herald doesn't view themselves as conservative when their Head of Business describes Ruth Richardson as a "doughty fiscal warrior".
December 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I find it very funny that the NZ Herald doesn't view themselves as conservative when their Head of Business describes Ruth Richardson as a "doughty fiscal warrior".
In an editorial bemoaning the lack of trust in institutions, the NZ Herald bizarrely groups a "Tory Whanau-era mayoral business advisory group" to scandals like police corruption.
Just shows even when the left tries to kowtow to the right, they'll still get lambasted for it.
Just shows even when the left tries to kowtow to the right, they'll still get lambasted for it.
December 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
In an editorial bemoaning the lack of trust in institutions, the NZ Herald bizarrely groups a "Tory Whanau-era mayoral business advisory group" to scandals like police corruption.
Just shows even when the left tries to kowtow to the right, they'll still get lambasted for it.
Just shows even when the left tries to kowtow to the right, they'll still get lambasted for it.
Typically useless reporting from Tova O’Brien, who spends her considerable paycheck complaining Labour MPs were too rude to the poor Finance Minister & therefore the public didn’t learn anything. Perhaps they didn’t learn anything because you spent your time reporting on tone rather than substance
December 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Typically useless reporting from Tova O’Brien, who spends her considerable paycheck complaining Labour MPs were too rude to the poor Finance Minister & therefore the public didn’t learn anything. Perhaps they didn’t learn anything because you spent your time reporting on tone rather than substance
Hahaha good one Stuff anyway this 13 year old girl named Metallica is missing
December 1, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Hahaha good one Stuff anyway this 13 year old girl named Metallica is missing
NewstalkZB's Mike Hosking, who has spent the year decrying judges, now wants to get rid of jury trials for all but serious cases. "Being judged by a jury of your peers - what a wonderful 1800's style thought. But here in the real world it's got a very stale, arduous vibe to it."
November 30, 2025 at 10:38 PM
NewstalkZB's Mike Hosking, who has spent the year decrying judges, now wants to get rid of jury trials for all but serious cases. "Being judged by a jury of your peers - what a wonderful 1800's style thought. But here in the real world it's got a very stale, arduous vibe to it."
Sunday Star-Times' Andrea Vance taking a swipe at political columnists like Audrey Young for dutifully killing the Luxon coup talk.
This kinda confirms my suspicions that Nicola Willis has been behind most of the reporting our press gallery has done since before the election.
This kinda confirms my suspicions that Nicola Willis has been behind most of the reporting our press gallery has done since before the election.
November 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Sunday Star-Times' Andrea Vance taking a swipe at political columnists like Audrey Young for dutifully killing the Luxon coup talk.
This kinda confirms my suspicions that Nicola Willis has been behind most of the reporting our press gallery has done since before the election.
This kinda confirms my suspicions that Nicola Willis has been behind most of the reporting our press gallery has done since before the election.
It never fails to amuse me THIS is the image NZ Herald chose for Audrey Young's Inside Politics banner. Audrey looks like I feel reading it.
November 27, 2025 at 1:29 AM
It never fails to amuse me THIS is the image NZ Herald chose for Audrey Young's Inside Politics banner. Audrey looks like I feel reading it.
It won't surprise you to learn that NZ Herald's Audrey Young has chosen not to mention National may campaign against the bill they just signed into law, but instead give a "bouquet" to Erica Stanford for her "skilled political management".
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November 27, 2025 at 1:29 AM
It won't surprise you to learn that NZ Herald's Audrey Young has chosen not to mention National may campaign against the bill they just signed into law, but instead give a "bouquet" to Erica Stanford for her "skilled political management".
Remember: people PAY for this newsletter.
Remember: people PAY for this newsletter.
Ah the life of a Senior Political Correspondent. You can just decide, a day after a "radical" plan to undermine democracy is announced, with no polling, that "no one cares" and move on.
I'm sure your fellow journalists at NZME don't care, Audrey, and your coverage will reflect that.
I'm sure your fellow journalists at NZME don't care, Audrey, and your coverage will reflect that.
November 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Ah the life of a Senior Political Correspondent. You can just decide, a day after a "radical" plan to undermine democracy is announced, with no polling, that "no one cares" and move on.
I'm sure your fellow journalists at NZME don't care, Audrey, and your coverage will reflect that.
I'm sure your fellow journalists at NZME don't care, Audrey, and your coverage will reflect that.
NZ Herald, rattled by polls showing 2/3rds of the public support a CGT, desperately search around for an attack line.
"Uh, but it should only apply to inflation-adjusted gains!"
Why? Australia's doesn't
"Uh, a person’s home is also their retirement!"
Labour's CGT doesn't apply to the family home
"Uh, but it should only apply to inflation-adjusted gains!"
Why? Australia's doesn't
"Uh, a person’s home is also their retirement!"
Labour's CGT doesn't apply to the family home
November 26, 2025 at 8:26 PM
NZ Herald, rattled by polls showing 2/3rds of the public support a CGT, desperately search around for an attack line.
"Uh, but it should only apply to inflation-adjusted gains!"
Why? Australia's doesn't
"Uh, a person’s home is also their retirement!"
Labour's CGT doesn't apply to the family home
"Uh, but it should only apply to inflation-adjusted gains!"
Why? Australia's doesn't
"Uh, a person’s home is also their retirement!"
Labour's CGT doesn't apply to the family home
NZME wanted to be really, really sure you understood that this is their writer's OPINION, so they broke out the double quote marks, even though they don't do that for literally any other opinion headline.
Would've been easier just apologising to Hobson's Pledge in a text message.
Would've been easier just apologising to Hobson's Pledge in a text message.
November 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
NZME wanted to be really, really sure you understood that this is their writer's OPINION, so they broke out the double quote marks, even though they don't do that for literally any other opinion headline.
Would've been easier just apologising to Hobson's Pledge in a text message.
Would've been easier just apologising to Hobson's Pledge in a text message.
I see NZME's Mike Hosking is back to pretending he's a COVID expert, today saying Britain's lockdowns were a mistake and (somehow) the Ardern govt is also to blame for locking down at the same time? Anyway, here's Mike previously saying we should lockdown and Britain was the one to follow.
November 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I see NZME's Mike Hosking is back to pretending he's a COVID expert, today saying Britain's lockdowns were a mistake and (somehow) the Ardern govt is also to blame for locking down at the same time? Anyway, here's Mike previously saying we should lockdown and Britain was the one to follow.