Peters was asked about the cost of hiring hotel rooms for negotiations since Wednesday.
The NZ First leader fired back at media, saying it was a minor cost to settle democracy before criticising the $55 million Public Interest Journalism Fund, something he had opposed right through the election campaign.
Ahead of the meeting, Luxon said coalition talks had narrowed “down to one or two issues”.
“I just need to keep working with the parties on the outstanding issues,” he said.
NZ Herald
Boom!
There it is. The media were bought and paid for by the PIJF, and they dare to moan about tiny expenses that would be rounding numbers compared to the hundreds of millions the media have suckled from the public teat; firstly from the PIJF and then from all the state advertising poured in to their coffers.
The moaning is unedifying and unnecessary. It is only 15 days since the final results were known, and these dolts are crying rivers of tears.
The media need to be defunded. Now.
Take away their advertising, take away their subsidies, grants and loans – they’ll be broke in a matter of hours. Do it.
The Media Party need to realise that the halcyon days of private prime ministerial briefings on Monday morning so that the editors could know the coming week’s talking points, are over. The gravy train is over. The troughing is over.
Change or die.
Cam Slater is a New Zealand-based blogger, best known for his role in Dirty Politics and publishing the Whale Oil Beef Hooked blog, which operated from 2005 until it closed in 2019. Cam blogs regularly on the BFD - where this article was sourced.
4 comments:
Surely the new Government is going to cancel the PIJF ???
Surely ?
Please - right now, and never aagain
I'm so glad I voted for Winston Peters. The MSM gave him a bad time before the election and he holds them in contempt, as so many of us also. I hope Winston gets his back on them. It should be fun to watch. He has already started attacking the PJF scandal.
There are always people like Cam. to replace the misfits in MSM. I have also seen some really horrid comments about Cam. on The Standard Kiwi blog by bloggers. This skirmish could be quite bloody. The truth can really hurt.
Some very worthwhile journalism was acheived under the PIJF. its fault was of course the blatant requirment for pro maori pandering. Picked up by very few of the public as any msm comment could hardly be both logical and in the spirit stipulated.
A similar fund but with a suitably worded specification insisting on objective and logical comment including of matters maori could be ideal.
Amen to that.
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