A journalist’s job is to dig out the facts but ,in this election, the digging has been pretty much one-sided. The handle of the spade appears to be bent somewhat to the right resulting in more digging in that direction than the left. The media need to realise it is the voters who decide elections, not them. With regard to the 2020 election, they are probably of the opinion they played a major role in the decision-making. They are deluding themselves, being too full of their own importance.
The voters decided for themselves purely based on their (wrong) perception of the government’s handling of the pandemic. If it weren’t for Winston in 2017 and Covid in 2020 Labour would not have been in power at all. Both those results had nothing to do with the media bias at the time. Again in this election, voters are making up their own minds and no amount of media cajoling is going to change the outcome. In fact, in what might be a surprise to them, this election was decided about a year ago.
If the media dropped their bias and decided to do some objective reporting, they would find themselves in step with the voting public. There is ample evidence, if they cared to report it, as to why this government is being thrown out. They are a bunch of incompetent non-achievers. They’ve managed to get nothing done. This is for two reasons – they don’t understand economics and they are drowning in their own outdated ideology. How about shining some light on that?
Another problem is they are being led by an elite handful of people who blame everything on colonialism, but this is 2023 and it is important we all live as one people in the present.
Where is the investigative journalism on the Maori Party’s justice policy? They want a Maori Justice system, abolition of prisons by 2040, to make bail easier, to raise the age of criminality to 16 and amend the Clean Slate Act so rapists and paedophiles can get clean slates. There’s a pertinent question for the journalists here: has the Maori Party designed its justice policy around the fact Maori are committing the bulk of the crime? No doubt that would be deemed racist and can’t be asked.
Why aren’t the journalists talking about the official government advice that of any GST exemption only 30 per cent is passed on? This means, under Labour’s policy, supermarkets will benefit to the tune of $1.54 billion while taxpayers benefit by under two dollars a week. Where is the reporting on the changes Labour want to make to the consent laws? Labour now want the accused to prove the victim said ‘yes’, meaning the accused is guilty until proven innocent. Why aren’t the journalists asking Labour why they’re telling lies about National? There are so many of them that National has set up a website to keep track of them.
There is more to this election than a possible hole in National’s foreign buyer tax proposal. What about the hole in the Treasury’s Budget predictions? Jessica Mutch McKay proved a poor moderator in last week’s Leaders Debate. She kept asking for new ideas but when Luxon started articulating them she cut him off. Someone who has done some good research is Alex Holland. He wrote on Kiwiblog concerning Labour’s race-based policies and came up with close to 130 of them.
So far in this election campaign we have been very poorly served by journalists failing to take an objective look at each party’s policies. As far as the election is concerned, it doesn’t really matter. We all know what the result will be. It’s really just a matter of how much of a hiding the left is going to get. That, however, shouldn’t detract from a journalist doing the hard yards and giving the impression they are proud of the profession they chose to work in.
JC is a right-wing crusader. Reached an age that embodies the dictum only the good die young. This article was first published HERE
The voters decided for themselves purely based on their (wrong) perception of the government’s handling of the pandemic. If it weren’t for Winston in 2017 and Covid in 2020 Labour would not have been in power at all. Both those results had nothing to do with the media bias at the time. Again in this election, voters are making up their own minds and no amount of media cajoling is going to change the outcome. In fact, in what might be a surprise to them, this election was decided about a year ago.
If the media dropped their bias and decided to do some objective reporting, they would find themselves in step with the voting public. There is ample evidence, if they cared to report it, as to why this government is being thrown out. They are a bunch of incompetent non-achievers. They’ve managed to get nothing done. This is for two reasons – they don’t understand economics and they are drowning in their own outdated ideology. How about shining some light on that?
Another problem is they are being led by an elite handful of people who blame everything on colonialism, but this is 2023 and it is important we all live as one people in the present.
Where is the investigative journalism on the Maori Party’s justice policy? They want a Maori Justice system, abolition of prisons by 2040, to make bail easier, to raise the age of criminality to 16 and amend the Clean Slate Act so rapists and paedophiles can get clean slates. There’s a pertinent question for the journalists here: has the Maori Party designed its justice policy around the fact Maori are committing the bulk of the crime? No doubt that would be deemed racist and can’t be asked.
Why aren’t the journalists talking about the official government advice that of any GST exemption only 30 per cent is passed on? This means, under Labour’s policy, supermarkets will benefit to the tune of $1.54 billion while taxpayers benefit by under two dollars a week. Where is the reporting on the changes Labour want to make to the consent laws? Labour now want the accused to prove the victim said ‘yes’, meaning the accused is guilty until proven innocent. Why aren’t the journalists asking Labour why they’re telling lies about National? There are so many of them that National has set up a website to keep track of them.
There is more to this election than a possible hole in National’s foreign buyer tax proposal. What about the hole in the Treasury’s Budget predictions? Jessica Mutch McKay proved a poor moderator in last week’s Leaders Debate. She kept asking for new ideas but when Luxon started articulating them she cut him off. Someone who has done some good research is Alex Holland. He wrote on Kiwiblog concerning Labour’s race-based policies and came up with close to 130 of them.
So far in this election campaign we have been very poorly served by journalists failing to take an objective look at each party’s policies. As far as the election is concerned, it doesn’t really matter. We all know what the result will be. It’s really just a matter of how much of a hiding the left is going to get. That, however, shouldn’t detract from a journalist doing the hard yards and giving the impression they are proud of the profession they chose to work in.
JC is a right-wing crusader. Reached an age that embodies the dictum only the good die young. This article was first published HERE
4 comments:
Another policy that didn't get any media coverage is the Greens' policy to give Maori first right of refusal on all private land sales. Did I dream that one or did it get announced? If it wasn't a figment of my imagination the implication could be that all house sales in New Zealand are affected. Then if Maori want your land how will the pricing be set if their valuation differs to yours.
JC, excellent as usual. I agree with the vast majority of what you say. The only thing I don't fully agree with is you mention that the media don't sway ppl. I disagree with this.
While they won't sway the likes of you and I, they probably can sway the weak minded voter which means they have done their job.
Case in point, the labour propaganda arm(tvnz) is really promoting ' vote compass '. I went and did it to see what it came up with. It advised that I was 42% aligned with labour. That's about 41.99% too much.
So that's just another way that labour are swaying undecided weak voters. Disgraceful really.
But they can't live on their results so they have to deceive and manipulate if they are to have any chance next month.
They chose their side JC (corporate media). No quarter given now. Never to be trusted again.
Part of the problem is that journalists are terrified of cancellation, like majority citizens. As are their employing companies. If they had presented matters objectively Labour would be so discredited that there would have been little to fear. My guess is that those not entirely blinkered will change direction after the election and as more democratic policies take effect.
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