Daily Indignation

I'm just gonna pin this Jay Rosen quote on political reporters' "savviness" because it explains so well why our press gallery is so bad. They scary thing is they don't think there's anything wrong with this way of thinking.

The media, including Patrick Gower moaning incessantly about a 3-week wait to learn the election results, is not only responsible for this, they will now not kick up a fuss about this very *anti-democratic* action. Because they care about going on holiday, not democracy.

This is a "Technology Editor/Senior Business Writer" so I didn't expect it, but it would've been Good Journalism to use this opportunity of Key wanting to stick his opinion into the papers to ask him if he would still vote for Trump. He even brings up Trump himself!

NZME's journalists and broadcasters out of touch with the average Kiwi? What makes you say that?

Spot the difference between NZME's Fran O'Sullivan talking about Fonterra in 2008 (under Labour) vs today. She still floats the idea of removing GST, but now all mention of Fonterra's profits not trickling down, or taxpayers footing their bill, or their pollution, are excised.

Good grief. This is not a vibes-based recession. Demand in the domestic economy is too low, so jobs are lost, and demand falls further. It's a doom loop. We are relying on private sector stimulus to save the day like *absolute clowns*. It's super slow and very damaging.

"Error" suggests these are unintentional. Two examples they give are multibuys that are more expensive than buying individually, & the price on the shelf not matching what you pay at checkout – these are intentional ways the supermarkets are trying to rip us off, not whoopsies

Called it

This is the most passive of passive voices. "Mass starvation stalks" as if it's an act of God and nobody's fault. Only cops and Israel get this special treatment.

Amnesty International: Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians Doctors Without Borders: Israel is deliberately starving Gaza UN expert: Israel is deliberately starving, killing children Human Rights Watch: Israel engineered mass starvation Media: Gaza food crisis spreads

Does RNZ – or indeed, any mainstream media – even know what they're referring to anymore when they say "Epstein files"? Because its already been reported that Trump was in Epstein's black book and flight logs. So what is the basis for repeating the White House's "fake" claims?

NZME's Ryan Bridge claims there's "only been a 4% increase in declines for emergency applications". See the figures for yourself. Ryan was so eager to blame Labour he didn't read the report correctly (or just straight-up lied, which I wouldn't put past him).

Homelessness is up 25%-225% after the govt starting clearing out people living in emergency motels. Emergency Housing rejection rate went from 10% to over 30% in lat year. NZME's Ryan Bridge: wildly successful

Mike is annoyed at the “sticky beak” law that will let you reveal to others what you're paid, and so threatens to reveal his pay, because... ???

I dunno, the coverage isn't exactly screaming "broken election promise" is it?

The public are not seeing the benefits of Fonterra making a killing, but they are seeing they can't afford butter we make here. This is apparently baffling to approximately 99% of the media, who continue to insist how good high prices are for "our" economy.

I know Liam Dann is only NZ Herald's Business Editor at Large, so he can't be expected to know butter is not just used to butter your toast in the morning, but is kinda essential in all sorts of baking for, like, businesses.

*reads another story about American right-wing silencing publicly-funded media* Hahaha, anyway, what RNZ/TVNZ hit piece does NZME's Media Insider have up today...?

Great, now can we get some experts to explain what's behind the lack of jobs?